Lincoln Drive is an expressway in the Wissahickon Creek section of Philadelphia , Pennsylvania . Initially built in 1856 as the Wissahickon Turnpike, it was not completed until about 50 years later. The road is called the “Dead Man’s Gulch” due to its twisting and turning. Initially, the purpose of the road was to provide access from the mills to the city of Philadelphia.
5-568: Some historic locations that the road passes include Historic RittenhouseTown , Germantown , and Chestnut Hill . From the 1930s until 1960, Lincoln Drive was designated as the southernmost part of U.S. Route 309 . 40°02′15″N 75°11′28″W / 40.03760°N 75.19115°W / 40.03760; -75.19115 This Pennsylvania road-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Historic RittenhouseTown Historic RittenhouseTown, sometimes referred to as Rittenhouse Historic District, encompasses
10-590: Is used for cooking demonstrations. A 20th century barn originally built for the Fairmount Park Commission is now used for paper-making workshops and demonstrations. Most of RittenhouseTown's buildings are built of stone and finished in stucco, and generally exhibit colonial building methods. They are all that are left of a much larger industrial complex and worker village, of which more than thirty-five buildings have been demolished. The area also includes archaeological industrial remains of some of
15-972: The 1850s, by which time the family was leasing its facilities out to other types of manufacturing. Between the years 1890 and 1917, the site was acquired through donations and purchases by the City of Philadelphia's Fairmount Park Commission . A nonprofit organization called Historic RittenhouseTown, Inc. was founded in 1984 to preserve, restore, and historically interpret RittenhouseTown. The organization maintains offices within RittenhouseTown and offers historic tours, paper making workshops and special events. RittenhouseTown includes six historic buildings maintained by Historic RittenhouseTown: Abraham Rittenhouse Home (c. 1720); Rittenhouse Homestead (1707); Rittenhouse Bake House (c. 1730); Enoch Rittenhouse Home (1845); Jacob Rittenhouse Home (1810); and another unnamed 18th century Rittenhouse Home. The Rittenhouse Bake House
20-583: The remains of an early industrial community which was the site of the first paper mill in British North America . The mill was built in 1690 by William Rittenhouse and his son Nicholas on the north bank of Paper Mill Run (Monoshone Creek) near (and now within) Philadelphia , Pennsylvania . The district, off Lincoln Drive near Wissahickon Avenue in Fairmount Park , includes six of up to forty-five original buildings. RittenhouseTown
25-633: Was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and was designated a National Historic Landmark District on April 27, 1992. Flax was woven into linen in nearby Germantown . When the linen fabrics wore out, the rags were brought to RittenhouseTown to be made into paper. Paper produced at the Rittenhouse mill was sold to printers in Germantown, Philadelphia, and New York City . The Rittenhouse paper mill operated until about
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