![]() ![]() Many of the area’s earliest settlers were Welsh Quakers. To honor his father, William Penn named the land Pennsylvania. ![]() The land grant was intended to settle a debt the King owed to Penn’s father. In 1681 King Charles II granted William Penn (1644-1718) a large, vaguely defined parcel of about twenty-eight million acres in the New World. ![]() The area attracted a large number of Quakers eager to flee intolerant English Puritan rule. ![]() In 1610 Dutch explorers were the first Europeans to set foot in the area, but it was a group of Swedes who established the first permanent settlements in the 1630s, followed closely by the English who dominated the area by the 1670s. All of which provides near-ideal land for a golf course and for a residential community close to nature.īefore there were golfers and before the first Europeans arrived in Pennsylvania, the Lenni Lenape (also known as the Delaware) Indians hunted, trapped, fished, and foraged for food on or near the land that is now Talamore at Oak Terrace. Resting upon bedrock more than 200-million years old, the land surface in the region abounds in stately deciduous trees, set apart by basaltic ridges and rolling, well-drained fertile surfaces, with scattered marshes and wetland habitats. Situated in the Schuylkill and Lower Delaware River basin, Talamore lies just beyond what geographers call the American Coastal Plain, on the northeastern edge of the American Piedmont, below the glacial ridge where the Uplands meet the Triassic-Jurassic Lowlands. The golf-course community of Talamore at Oak Terrace lies in Horsham Township, Montgomery County in southeastern Pennsylvania, twenty-nine miles from Philadelphia City Hall. II Talamore at Oak Terrace ~ Early History ![]()
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