Name/Title
The WissahickonEntry/Object ID
2013.34.1.62a-bDescription
The Edwin C. Jellett Series of Scrapbooks, Volume 1- The Wissahickon
Page 62 contains handwritten notes of Jellett on white lined note paper. These notes are entitled "Bob Fell", and appear to be a continuation of Notes started on page 53 (see catalog number 2013.34.1.53) detailing conversations with Bob Fell. It should also be noted that this page is double sided and needs to be turned over to reveal the reverse side. This page of notes is dated April 3, 1905 (a). Underneath these handwritten notes is a typed insert (b).
Top (a): Jellett recounts another conversation with Bob Fell on April 3, 1905. Fell mentions the name of "Bill" Levering, who owned land along the west side of the Wissahickon below Kitchen's Lane. Levering placed stones below the bridge to collect sand which he sold for $200 per load. Fell's father (a stone mason) built a stone fence for Levering. Sometime in the 1850's (?), a freshet washed out the bridge and Pike at Gorgas Lane, casuing damage to Jake Heft's dye house, for which he sued the Turnpike Company and won. Fell recalled his knowledge of a man named Schurr for whom Schurr's Lane was named (previously it was known as "Poorhouse Lane" and ran from Main Street in Germantown to Ridge Road in Roxborough).
Bottom (b): Pasted and typed insert reads:
Christopher Sower's Germantown newspaper, December 9, 1758:
"Freshets, Nov. 30. Wissahickon ten feet above normal. A man tried to drive across the creek six miles from Germantown. His wagon was wrecked and two horses were drowned; the man and his son had a narrow escape."Collection
GHS Scrapbook CollectionMade/Created
Date made
1894 - 1925Notes
Creation Date: April 3, 1905
