By 1981 there was only one farm in Upper Merion Township, "Nor-View", a dairy enterprise operated by the DiGiambattista family since 1920. This photo gallery was contributed by grandson Ken DiGiambattista.

He says "My grandfather, a farmer from Italy purchased the farm in 1922 for $4,500 ($4,000 of it borrowed from friends and family on a hand shake ). The 11 acre property included a frame house and barn with no electricity or indoor plumbing.

Over the years the working farmland would grow to 300 acres and would include Sweetbriar, Cinnamon Hill, Merion View a portion of Candlebrook, and the 15 acres that would later become the Upper Merion Swim Club. Rented farmland included 100 acres off of Church road that Bethlehem Quarry owned and rented it to us for $1 an acre. We also worked a 60 acre portion of land where Valley Forge Homes is today and the ground that would become the Valley Forge Drive-In and Costco, from the Anderson Farm.

The farm started out as a vegetable farm and grew into a milk delivery business in 1934. With the opening of the Schulkill Expressway in 1953, the family was forced to sell off a portion of their land. As the working farm land dwindled the dairy business grew to a herd of 95 Holsteins. The Nor-View Farm Dairy Store opened in 1962 and was followed by the installation of a milk processing plant in 1966, the sale of ice cream in 1971 and the inclusion of the petting zoo in 1977.

We also owned 117 acres in Oaks, PA until the new route 422 went right through the middle of it."

From a postcard circa 1970.