February 2012

Wissahickon Creek at Monshone Creek culvert under Forbidden Drive, Roxbourgh.

Rittenhouse homestead on the Monshone Creek, Philadelphia PA.

Site of the first paper-mill in the colonies

This was the front line during the battle of Germantown with

 British Hessian forces on the German Township side of the creek 

and the American insurgents on the Roxbourgh Township side 

(photo from Roxbourgh side) 

David Rittenhouse later became the Director of the US Mint
and is buried under a sundial near the homestead. 

http://www.archives.upenn.edu/people/1700s/rittenhouse_david.html
http://www.rittenhousetown.org/