Historic towns of the middle states (1899) (14578343809)

Identifier: historictownsofm02powe (find matches)
Title: Historic towns of the middle states
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Powell, Lyman P. (Lyman Pierson), b. 1866, ed
Subjects: Cities and towns -- Middle Atlantic States Middle Atlantic States -- History
Publisher: New York, London, G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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ooked out on green fields to the west, andRittenhouses little observatory—earliest ofAmerican star-gazing spots, whose telescope,earliest of our astronomical instruments, is inthe American Philosophical Society — stillstood in the square where Howes artillery wasto be parked. The jail of Hugh Wynnewas on the southeast corner of Sixth andChestnut, on whose site Binneys home wasto stand later, the hero of another struggle forfreedom. In the northeast corner of Wash-ington Square was the potters field, lastopened a century ago for yellow-fever victims.The house, Dutch built, and hence close to thestreet edge, in which Jefferson was to writethe draft of the Declaration, preserved bythe American Philosophical Society, was onSeventh and Market, its commemoration tab-let on the wrong lot. A tavern fronted theHall, and its stables ran opposite to the maindoor, its flies worrying the Continental Con-gress on a hot historic afternoon. The sharprise which still ascends between Callowhill and
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320 Philadelphia Spring Garden was crested by the Britishworks, of which the first was at Second andPoplar. From the Market Street Bridge it isstill possible to make out the hill on whichHamilton planted his field-pieces to engagethe British tete-du-pont, held by the 72d High-landers. The Hessians camped in the openspace at Grays Ferry, as the bridge of manyyears is still called. The stately house whichheld the Mischienza has disappeared onlywithin a few years. The houses on the mainstreet of Germantown still bear the mark ofthe battle, and look unchanged on the streetw^hose fogs still veil it as on the day of conflict.The city now had from the river the sky-linewhich it substantially retained up to twentyyears ago, when the steeples and the towersthe Revolutionary period knew were dwarfedby the many-storied steel frames of to-day. The returning tide of prosperity after theRevolution has left one mark in the Morrisdwelling on the south side of Eighth, betweenLocust and Walnut, type of