Name/Title
The WissahickonEntry/Object ID
2013.34.3.12a-bDescription
The Edwin C. Jellett Series of Scrapbooks, Volume 3 -The Wissahickon
Page 12 contains two small newspaper clippings
(a, top) This newspaper clipping is labeled (by Jellett) "Ammadown Mill". The clipping mentions passing Ammadown's blanket (and shoddy) mill located in close proximity to where stood the Rittenhouse Grist Mill. It (Ammadown's mill) was also located near to the site where stood Matthew Houlgate's fulling mill, adjoining land of William Rittenhouse.
(b, bottom) This newspaper clipping is also labeled Ammadown's Mills. (Note that both clippings spell the name differently. One clipping renders the name as Ammidown; the other clipping renders the name as Ammadown). The small article mentions that Ammadown's mills were quite extensive and employed large numbers of people. During the Civil War, the mills manufactured large numbers of blankets for soldiers. Linclon Drive (a short distance east of Wissahickon Drive) covers the ruins of these old mills. This became Fairmount Par property during the seventies (1870s). Jellett's pencil notation at the bottom of this clipping indicates NKH (possibly referring to Nathan H. Keyser?).Collection
GHS Scrapbook Collection
