Wakefield and Little Wakefield

2013.5.4.19c-d

2013.5.4.19c-d

Name/Title

Wakefield and Little Wakefield

Entry/Object ID

2013.5.4.19c-d

Description

Two images on page 19 of scrapbook 2, "Pictorial Germantown Road and the Vicinity & Some of its Inhabitants. Compiled by George Clarence Johnson. Volume I. East Side." Image c is a photograph of Little Wakefield with a caption that the house was built by Thomas and Sarah Fisher on the northern part of the Stenton Estate in 1793 when they moved from Philadelphia to escape the yellow fever epidemic; the house pictured is an enlargement of the original. Image 2 is of an etching of Wakefield with a caption that the house was built by Thomas Fisher in 1795 adjacent to Stenton. The house was named after the home of an ancestor in Yorkshire, England, and is located on Fisher's Lane. [Page 20 is blank.]

Collection

GHS Scrapbook Collection