Name/Title
The WissahickonEntry/Object ID
2013.34.5.21a-bDescription
The Edwin C. Jellett Series of Scrapbooks, Volume 5 -The Wissahickon
Page 21 contains the following:
(a, front and top of back of lined notepaper) These are Jellett's notes (which will be summarized). Jellett relates information received from Fee, who describes local lure of an underground passgae from the Monastery to a cave was dispelled when the City of Philadelphia obtained possession. Park Guards (with picks and bars) were never able to discover any such passage. Fee also relates information regarding several later owners.
Fee gain relates to Jellett that while the springhouse has not changed, the wall to the west was considerably altered. The well was built asa supply for the dye house at the mills. Fee describes the water system and the pipes which carried the water for myraid uses. He also mentions a figure he calls Sachse who shared information about the place.
(b, back bottom) This newspaper clipping is entitled "At the Monastery" and is endorsed in Jellett's handwriting as from the Record (?) 1901. The unknown author describes a group visit to the Monastery frustrating in the fact that the building was undergoing renovation. He lapses into a very short history of the building and persons asociated with the property. The author concludes with a short description of the visit to some quaint rooms and a view disrupted by a golf course at the edge of the property. (Please also see page 15 of this scrapbook series, Volume 5, for another reference to the Monastery Golf Club (2013.34.5.15).Collection
GHS Scrapbook CollectionMade/Created
Date made
1890 - 1910Notes
Creation Date: 1901
