The Wissahickon

Name/Title

The Wissahickon

Entry/Object ID

2013.34.5.82

Description

The Edwin C. Jellett Series of Scrapbooks, Volume 5 -The Wissahickon Page 82 contains a newspaper clipping labeled (in Jellett's handwriting) as "Gorgas Mill Road"(?). The unknown author reflects on passing the site of LIvezey's lower mills, and proceeding northward along the drive, the first road to the left turns into Gorgas and Halley's mills. Southward on the hill are the grounds of an old vineyard. At one time there were several vineyards on the Wissahickon, several of which were famous.

Collection

GHS Scrapbook Collection

Made/Created

Date made

1890 - 1910