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Samuel W. Pennypacker was the governor of Pennsylvania from 1903-1907. During his tenor as governor the state capital was completed in Harrisburg. He was raised in Phoenixville, PA, but lived at Pennypacker Mills in Schwenksville as an adult. The property at Pennypacker Mills had already been in his family over a hundred years when he lived there with his wife and four children. They added onto the house, and, of course, gave significance to the property as a historic landmark, which it is today. This year we visited Pennypacker Mills' Christmas open house. For one day a year, the historical society opens Pennypacker Mills for a Christmas open house. The property is open all year Tuesday-Sunday for tours, but the Christmas open house is special. The home is decorated as it would have been in the early 1900's with glass beads, garlands, a Christmas tree bedecked with candles and molded candies and delicacies on display as they would have been when the Pennypacker family lived t...