Name/Title
The WissahickonEntry/Object ID
2013.34.5.27Description
The Edwin C. Jellett Series of Scrapbooks, Volume 5 -The Wissahickon
Page 27 contains Jellett's notes which are transcribed as follows:
"The German Secretarians of Pennsylvania
(by) Julius F. Sachse
Monastery p. 288
The past two centuries have dealt kindly with this historic spot; little or no change has been wrought by time in the immediate locality and now, thanks to the Park Commission, it will once more be in its original condition as all the buildings, except the mansion proper, are to be removed. What the future of the old monastery, or Gorgas mansion, will be none can tell. A proposition has been made to restore it and use it for park offices. May it remain for decades to come as a landmark and in its romantic setting keep ?? unbroken by the inroads of time and recall to future generations the story of its immediate surroundings. Now, at the foot of the hill, on the bank of the creek, the German Baptist Brethern completed their organization in America, and later, how some of the strictest and most austere members retired to this little vale, clearing the ground and building for themselves a humble cabin of rough logs where they prayed for the conversion of their countrymen in this foreign land - from which fact it received a name which has clung to it through all the changes of time. "Collection
GHS Scrapbook Collection