Name/Title
ScrapbookEntry/Object ID
2017.17.4Description
Edward B. Phillips, scrapbook D
Key Words
Schoolhouse Lane pg 3-34
TOPICS PG. 3:
Wissahickon; Indians, (Old) Indian Trails, Red Man/Men; Germantown Academy; Brief description of trees and flora from Gypsy lane to Fairmount Park; "The Coming of the White Man," Robeson mill.
PHOTO: View of Wissahickon near western end of Schoolhouse Ln.
TOPICS PG. 5:
Wissahickon mystics/hermits; Roxborough/Rocksburrow; American Revolution; Hessians; battle of Germantown; Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution; George Washington; Mexico, Vera Cruz; estates; Mrs. J. Campbell Harris; Powers & Weightman Company, railroad.
TOPICS PG. 7:
Ellersleigh, (Wagner); Ravenhill, (Penfield); William Weightman, Walker; Roseneath, W. H. Merrick; Roslyn Manor, David Milne; Four Oaks family homestead; yellow fever.
PHOTO: Ravenhill Property.
TOPICS PG. 9:
Shady Hill School; "Solomon's Temple"; Warden Estate; "Infant's Retreat" American Sunday School Union; Springmead, Mrs. Edward E. Denniston; Glenwood, Harrison; architecture, English; School for Deficient Children, Pennsylvania Training School for Feeble-minded Children; Dr. Martin W. Barr.
TOPICS PG. 11:
Daniel H. Carstairs' House; suburban; Bishop Rhinelander, old Moses Brown place; Netherfield, Jeremiah Brown place, Moses Brown; Malvern, Colonel Kolb; Red Gate, William Gray Warden; Madeira Home; Chestnut, Maple trees; Captain William Warner; Woodleigh, Henry Wood; William Allison house; Shenley and the Pines; Harold M. Sill; beeches.
PHOTO: Home of Robert S. Smith.
TOPICS PG. 13:
Penn Charter School; James C. Kempton; "crippled" horses and animals, "Horseheaven,"; athletic field; William Reeves Walters, 1916; Pennsylvania Railroad; William Penn; public grammar school; PHOTO: Left "Horseheaven," Right Pinehurst western entrance.
TOPICS PG. 15:
Lynwood, J.B. Kinley; Lycoming, Mr. and Mrs. William Jay Turner; Treichel place; Woodside, Francis Strawbridge; Philip S. Justice; President Rutherford B. Hayes; oracles; Oakley, Peter Wright; Henry Brown; Blythewood; William Butcher.
PHOTO: Scene at a color contest at Penn Charter School.
TOPICS PG. 17:
Blythewood, Walter S. Knipe; Torworth, Mr. and Mrs. Frederic H. Strawbridge; Wharton Chancellor, Twells; Cerne, Misses Mason; Germantown Horticultural Society; Fairmount Park Commission; "Dogheaven"; W. G. Warden; Misses Connor, E.N. Wright, Ashmead; Queen Lane Manor; Nurses' House of the Germantown Hospital; Queen Lane Manor Land Company.
TOPICS PG. 19:
Cloverly Park, E.W. Clark; J. Edgar Thompson, Ann Coulter; Friends' School of Germantown; Indian Cemetery, Native American Cemetery; Clark mansion; cricket; Edward W., Jr., Percy H., and Herbert L. Clark; popularizing cricket in Philadelphia; Selma; Ketterlinus place; Judge Porter; Longland; Maple Shade; Indian names, Aborigine, Aboriginal names; Cloverly Park.
TOPICS PG. 21:
Hessian prisoners; Bank of England; Reverend Mr. Schaeffer; Mr. Van Otten; Landgrave of Hesse; Garden; Miss Jane Campbell; Pulaski Avenue; Halesia; Stuartia; cedar of Lebanon; Stryax; gordonia, Franklin tree; Archibald Henderson; City History Society; Shag Rag; "Indian heaven" burial; ghost; China Inland Mission; missionaries; Reverend Dr. William Porter Lee; Westside Presbyterian Church.
TOPICS PG. 23:
"old Plank" road; Mrs. Benjamin Miller; New England, Southern colonial mansions; Huston family; Fairfax Apartments; Samuel Mason; William H. Scott; "Shag Rag" fire house; "cherry bookcase with oval glass doors"; "black-haired, red coated figure,"; "Hessian ghost".
PHOTO: Home of William H. Scott
TOPICS PG. 25
The Dove House; George Washington; Diary; Joseph S. Harris estate; Councilman Jacob J. Seeds; "Dove Cote"; Charles F. Jenkins; 130 Schoolhouse Ln; yellow fever.
PHOTO: Top, Kershaw Hall/Dove House, Bottom, Home of Jacob J. Seeds.
TOPICS PG. 27
Germantown Academy; Schoolhouse Lane; Greene street; “Minute Men”; British soldiers, burial; Site and Relic Society; Germantown Union School; Public School of Germantown; George Washington; Lafayette; Curtis; Bolivar; Colonel Sheldon Potter; Brother Dove.
PHOTO: General view of Germantown Academy.
TOPICS PG. 29
Dr. Cameron; Friends’ Meeting House; Betsy Dougherty; Rostund Club; Dr. Carl Williams; Washington; western expedition; Hicksite Friends; Coulter street; Society of Friends; Brother Hicks; Abraham Deaves; Joseph Livezey; Samuel Mason; Jesse Walton; Robert Paiste; Samuel A. Griscom; Chalkley Gillingham; John Rowlett; Jonathan Rittenhouse; William Dorsey; Robert Evans; Peter Wright; Jonathan Jones; Joseph Fussell; Amos Hillborn; Samuel N. Longstreth; Howard W. Lloyd; Thomas H. Shoemaker; Firstday school; Edith Atlee; Harrison Streeter; William C. Rowland; E. Pusey Passmore; Charles C. Willis; Robert E. Lamb; Greene street; Noami Rittenhouse; James Laws; Benjamin Leedom; Dr. Charles Noble; Samuel Nice; Joshua Jenkins; Samuel, Rachael Townsend; Lucretia Mott; Deborah Wharton; Dr. Nathan Shoemaker; Civil War; freedmen; burial ground; Atherton; Parvin; Speckman; Simons; Lamb; Hampton.
TOPICS PG. 31
Bensell-Ashmead-Schaeffer stable; Morris; Saving Fund Society; Germantown avenue; Tillner; Ashmead; Bensell; Schaeffer; Sir Ellis Ashmead Bartlett; Baroness Burdett-Coutts; Cheltenham Township; Chelten avenue; William Penn; Workingmen’s Club; battle of Germantown; Saving Fund Society; Armat street; Walker Hall; Trower's restaurant; Livingston E. Jones; Lewis W. Wister; H.T. Montgomery; Charles, Hans George Bensell; General Washington; General Knox; General Greene; Stephen Boisbrun; Germantown Library; Thomas Dunlap; William Van Horn; Frederick Brownholtz; Fred R. Rittenhouse; Joseph Vanderslice; Germantown Bank; Charles Seifken; Samuel Harvey; John Fanning Watson.
PHOTO: An old view of School Lane at Germantown Avenue.
TOPICS PG. 33
"Old Church Lane, Reminiscently Considered"; Indians; pioneer settlers; Market Square; colonial period; coaching parties; battle of Germantown; William Penn; George Whitefield; Mutual Fire Insurance Company; Paxton boys; Revolution; Civil War; 1812; Spanish war; world wars; "Freddy" Axe.
Old Church Lane pg 34-56
TOPICS PG. 34
Independent-Gazette; Townsend Ward; "Old Germantown Road"; Annie De B. Mears; book, "Old York Road"; turnpikes; Church lane; H.F. McCann; Dr. N. H. Keyser; E. W. Hocker; E. C. Jellett; 1680; old York Road; Germantown pike; Mill Creek; Wingohocking; farmers; Branchtown; Richard Townsend; ship "Welcome"; William Penn; grist mill; Townsend's Mill road; Necessity Boulevard; Lukens; battle of Germantown; Lukens' mill; Lukens mill road; Germantown Reformed Church; Market Square; Presbyterian Church; Church lane; Spencer street; Mill street; Germantown and Branchtown Turnpike Company; Spencer Roberts; Wyndam H. Stokes; Spencer Shoemaker; W. H. Stokes; Benjamin Jenkins; Borough Council; Germantown Telegraph; tollgates; Branchtown pike; City Councils; street name restoration; Prussians; British; capture of Germantown 1777; Hindenburg line.
TOPICS PG. 35
Turnpike Company; Germantown Independent-Gazette; milk dealer; butter dealer; Church lane; Branchtown; autoists; road dust; death; grinders' consumption; bureau of highways; brick; automobile; macadam roads; board of health; bituminous tar; battle of Germantown; George Washington; Chew house; Valley Forge; Revolution; Meeting House lane; Haines street; left wing of the American troops.
CONTINUED ON PG. 37
TOPICS PG. 36
roses; Germantown avenue; Stenton avenue; mulberries; repaving ordinance; brick; ground-stone dust; Belgian blocks; macadam; gold bricks; Market Square Residents' Association; city jugglers; Congressman Darrow.