Name/Title
PlaqueEntry/Object ID
1993.632Description
Cast copper wall plaque with cast letters, raised frame. One hole at each corner for screw to attach to wall. Plaque reads as follows, "On this site a Botanical Garden, one of the first in America, was planted by Dr. Christopher Witt, Botanist, Mystic, and Physician. Born Wiltshire, England. Nov. 10, 1675 died Germantown Jan. 30, 1765. Later on this same site lived Elizabeth Carrington Morris, Botanist, and her sister, Margaretha (?) Harre (?) Morris who here investigated and discovered the life habits of the Seventeen Year Locust and who was an active woman member of the Academy of Natural Science. Erected in 1915, by the Site and Relic Society of Germantown."Dimensions
Height
3-3/16 inWidth
24 in