A guide book of art, architecture, and historic interests in Pennsylvania
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A guide book of art, architecture, and historic interests in Pennsylvania
Architecture -- Pennsylvania; Art -- Pennsylvania; Historic buildings -- Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania -- Guidebooks; Pennsylvania -- History
East Logan Street, across Wissahickon Avenue, the picturesque WAKEFIELD
MILLS and residence of Thomas and Sarah Fisher, née Logan, in 1795,
granddaughter of James Logan, of Stenton; passing Wakefield, Old York
Road is soon reached. JEWISH HOSPITAL on the right. Old York Road, on
left, residence of Pierce Butler, bought in 1812; he was a member of the
Constitutional Convention, and Senator from South Carolina; his son,
Pierce Butler, Jr., married Fanny Kemble; present residence of Owen
Wister, their grandson; the British outpost was stationed near here.
Church Lane and Wingohocking Creek, site of Roberts Mill, built in 1683;
first in the country; built by Richard Townsend, a passenger on the
_Welcome_ with William Penn; back of mill, British had a small redoubt,
guarding their encampment in Germantown. Northeast corner of Church Lane
and Dunton Street, Spencer farmhouse; Thomas Godfrey, inventor of the
quadrant, was born here; he died in 1749. Northwest corner of Haines
Street and Limekiln Turnpike, PHILADELPHIA NATIONAL CEMETERY, thirteen
acres, founded in 1885; soldiers of the War of the Rebellion are buried
here. Farther along Limekiln Turnpike left wing of Washington’s army
moved down this road, and a sharp encounter occurred with an outpost of
British.
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BUCKS COUNTY
Automobile ride of historic interest through Washington’s itinerary to
New Hope. Return to Philadelphia via Bristol and Frankford.
One of the first three counties established by William Penn, 1682, named
for Buckinghamshire (Bucks), England, Penn’s ancestral home. From
HATBORO, Montgomery County, take the Old York Road to WARMINSTER, site
where John Fitch, in 1785, made a model of the first successful
steamboat, marked by monument; he ran a boat, with side wheels, by
steam, on a pond in 1786, and on the Delaware River, during session of
Federal Constitution at State House in Philadelphia, 1787; twenty years
before Robert Fulton’s trial trip on the Hudson; before Fitch, first
model of steamboat in United States was made by William Henry, of
Lancaster, 1763. Approaching Hartsville, is site of Log College, origin
of Princeton University, founded by Rev. William Tennent, 1740, near
Christ’s Home, where everything is obtained through prayer. Neshaminy
Church in a grove of very old oak trees, where William Tennent preached,
is one of the oldest Presbyterian churches in Pennsylvania. HARTSVILLE,
Cobe Scout’s shop, on Little Neshaminy; bulk of American army was at
Neshaminy Camp, with General Stephen and Lord Sterling, when Lafayette
joined it, and was handed his commission by General Washington in
Moreland house, near the bridge; marked, inscription,
[Illustration: BUCKS COUNTY]
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