Name/Title
The WissahickonEntry/Object ID
2013.34.3.69Description
The Edwin C. Jellett Series of Scrapbooks, Volume 3 -The Wissahickon
Page 69 contains notes from Jellett (transcribed by Harris as follows):
In the houses in the hollow behind Ammidown mill lived mostly English operatives who worked in the mills. In one house lived Aleck (???) who drove for McKinney. (J.R.)
The settlement above Ammidown's mill was peopled mostly by English operatives who worked in the mills. A Mr. Umsted lived in the house near the quarry. He was eighty years old at the time Bob knew him. (R. Fell)
Umsted's house stood on the curve of the lane leading from Rittenhouse Street up to the School. On the other corner stood the Wissahickon hand-engine. Half way up the hill on the way to the school stood a house occupied by Pabst (Wm. Rudbond??)
Lord owned all the ground in the vicinity of the school and his mill was situated below the school. It was a common sight to see the blankets made at the mill drying on the school-house hill. (Wm. Rudbond)
On Rittenhouse Street, near Rittenhouse town, lived a family named Yates. In the old house, - in a G(?) "Rittenhouse built place" live the McKinneys. East was the Baptist church, and further east was the blacksmith shop, - also the wayside spring which ???? at a later period attended. (Wm. Rudbond to E.J.C.). (This particular paragraph was not transcribed by Harris as were the others, so the above constitutes an approximation of that particular portion of Jellett's notes).
In the row of houses on Rittenhouse Street, next from Township Line Road, lived Summerville, a harness maker, and "Tim" McCaffferty, a noted character and a little of everything. Later Myles Warren, a gardener, lived in the corner house. (E.J.C.)Collection
GHS Scrapbook Collection
