Name/Title
The WissahickonEntry/Object ID
2013.34.1.11a-bDescription
The Edwin C. Jellett Series of Scrapbooks, Volume 1- The Wissahickon
Page 11 contains two handwritten list sattached to a plain piece of white lined note paper. Beside each list is handwritten the word: wissahickon.
The list on the left (2013.34.1.11a) is titled: wissahickon notes and is date 3-18-1894. Under the main title is a sub-title: Mile Posts.
5 Mile Post at H 7 (?). Near Breast of Lower dam.
6 Mile Post Within 40' of Rittenhouse Street.
7 Mile Post at Kitchen Lane.
8 Mile Post 100' above Gorgas Lane.
9 Mile Post at Hartwell Ave.
10 Mile Post at 300' above Rex Ave. Bridge.
W123(?) 10 9/10 miles
11 Mile Post No entry.
The list on the right (2013.34.1.11b) has a similar handwritten notation on the left: wissahickon. The list is entitled Wissahickon Notes, with a sub-title "Bridges":
a.6 Riverside Bridge
a.6 Rope Ferry
Log-Cabin Bridge
Hermit Lane Bridge
Rittenhouse Street Bridge (Built 1830)
Old Red Bridge
Kitchen Lane Bridge
Allen Lane Bridge (Built 1839)
Livezey Lane Bridge
Valley Green Bridge Single Arch (1824?)
p 80 Hartwell Ave.Bridge (word in right margin cannot be deciphered)
Rex Ave. Bridge. 2 arches, B[uilt?] about 1880.
2-111 Paul's "Mill' Bridge a[bove?] Chestnut Ave.
Thorpe Lane (in 2013 known as Bells Mill Rd) Bridge.
Germantown Ave. Bridge.Collection
GHS Scrapbook Collection
