Name/Title
Witt-Morris Historical MarkerEntry/Object ID
2010.502.2Description
Photograph of historical marker reading, "On this site a Botanical Garden one of the first in America, was planted by Dr. Christopher Witt Botanist, Mystic and Physician Born, Wiltshire, England, Nov. 10, 1675. died, Germantown. Jan. 30, 1765. Later, on the same site lived Elizabeth Carrington Morris Botonist, and her sister Margaretta Hare Morris who here investigated and discovered the life habits of the 'Seventeen Year Locust'; and who was the first woman member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Erected 1915 by the Site and Relic Society of Germantown."Photograph Details
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Print Size: 6.5x8.5