Wissahickon

Name/Title

Wissahickon

Entry/Object ID

2013.34.2.63

Description

Page 63 of the Edwin C. Jellett Scrapbook, The Wissahickon, Volume II, Hermits' Glen to Rittenhouse Street. A newspaper clipping about the Old Log Cabin. It refers to Nicholas Rittenhouse, Martin Rittenhouse, James Rittenhouse, Nicholas Rittenhous Jr., Charles Rittenhouse, George Rittenhouse, William Umstead, its role as a center for Harrison partisans in he 1840 election campaign, Tommy Lewellyn, and animals that were kept there. A caption by Jellet gives W. Doughtery's description of the siting of the Log Cabin.

Collection

GHS Scrapbook Collection