The Wissahickon

2013.34.5.107a-c

2013.34.5.107a-c

Name/Title

The Wissahickon

Entry/Object ID

2013.34.5.107a-c

Description

The Edwin C. Jellett Series of Scrapbooks, Volume 5 -The Wissahickon Page 107 contains Jellett's notes, transcribed as follows: (a, top) Rum Pipe Spring Spring on the drive above Kitchen's Lane is so known. Turtle Rock once stood above it. The postal card view of the spring shows this rock. (b, middle) Turtle Rock or The Three Frogs On the drive nearly opposite the monastery. The lower portion resembles a turtle, the upper part looks like three frogs standing on the edge of a pool. This rock, in the year - - - , fell on the roadway and the figures are no more. (c, bottom) Three Frogs or Snapping Turtle This was above the drive opposite the monastery. Unfortunately it fell into the road in the early part of 1904.

Collection

GHS Scrapbook Collection

Made/Created

Date made

1890 - 1910