Name/Title
The WissahickonEntry/Object ID
2013.34.3.30Description
The Edwin C. Jellett Series of Scrapbooks, Volume 3 -The Wissahickon
Page 30 contains notes by Jellett, summarized as follows:
Rittenhouse Street (from Germantown Road to Ridge Road, Roxborough) was long-known as "Poor House Lane." The road did not extend directly to the creek but (beyond the Rittenhouse birthplace) branched. One branch crossed the stream at "Red Bridge" and from there to Schurs Lane to Roxborough. The other branch extended over the hills, reaching the stream at Hermit's Lane. Fell recalled Rittenhouse Lane crossed a bridge at Hermit's Lane and thence to Roxborough along the creek. The other road from Germantown to Roxborough lead from Rittenhouse, crossed the creek at "Red Bridge" and thence to Ridge Road by Shur's Lane.
Jellett mentions that William Radbond indicated that the road past Wissahickon School was rthe common public road from Germantown to Roxborough, which crossed the stream at "Red Bridge."
Fell (again) relates that Shur's Lane was known as "Poor House Lane" from Main Street in Germantown to Ridge Road in Roxborough. From Ridge Road to Ridge Avenue, it was known as Shur's Laner because it ran by Shur's Farm. Shur or Schurz (or Schurtz) was described as "a little Dutchman who lived on the west side of Ridge Road and grew truck (mostly likely a term to denote the growing of produce sold from the back of a truck).Collection
GHS Scrapbook Collection
