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Identifier: universityofpenn01nitz (find matches)
Title: University of Pennsylvania: its history, traditions, buildings and memorials: also a brief guide to Philadelphia
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Nitzsche, George Erasmus, 1874- (from old catalog) ed
Subjects: University of Pennsylvania
Publisher: Philadelphia, International printing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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riidld hy l\an. CIII.W MANSION SCI.NK OK HATllK OF (.KUM A NTOW N. (lernianlown was loundcd in ItlSo by I^nyiish (.Quakers and l)iin-keis and IMeiinoniles. Mutch and Oerman reliKioiiists ot similartenets. David Kitteiihouse was born in Curmaiitown. Ills latliei-was mnnaKor of the llrsi iiapcr mill in America, on Iapcr MillLull, In a, little settlement still called Lit teiihoiisc Powu, wher(>the old mill still stands close to the IxKiimiu;^ of !>iiicoln Drive. rr/(,f!i/) lloitNC. at Main and .lohiisoii SIr.fts (ti ;(I0), was the cen-tre of Ihe L.allle ol (Jci iiiaiitowii, on October I, 1777. .Lritishtroops wi-ir driven b.v a p.irl of the Conliiieiital Arm.v to take reluKfin Mil- iiiaiisioii, wliitii .still bc.iis the marks of shot and sliell.
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270 Morris House was built in 1772. It is a woll-preseived Colonialmansion, at (Jermantown Avenue, ntar Sciiool House Lane (5500).It was WasiiiiiKtons residence in )7!)3-170 4. (leriiuintoion Acadcmij.—Ori^iiuil buildin.i; still standing- on MainStreet. it was tounded by the Friends and Lutherans in 1759,and is one of the oldest preparatory schools in the country. Geimantown Avenue is rich in otlier historic houses and grounds.At Logan Street (4900) is Hoods Cemetery, one of the first burialplaces In the town. Buried in the cemetery are General Agnew,the British conmiander, killed in the battle of Germantown. TheGermantown Site and Ilelic Society occupies the old Wistar Man-sion in Vernon Park, just above Chelten Avenue (5700). Thehouse has been made a museum and contains a number of veryinteresting historical relics. Opposite tiie Soldieis Monument is

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