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Title: Ancient and modern Germantown, Mount Airy and Chestnut Hill
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Hotchkin, Samuel Fitch, 1833-1912
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Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., P. W. Ziegler & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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n, a boarding house, at the corner ofMt. Pleasant avenue and Main street. The Gorgas family are ancient settlers-in this neighborhood and are of German stock. Rev. Peter Keyser was in the lumber business in Philadelphia with one ofthe Gorgas family. The firm was Keyser & Gorgas. Mr. Keyser used to walkto the city and back from his residence, now occupied by Ell wood Johnson, onMain street, Germantown, near Washington lane. An old mill in Roxborough, on the Wissahickon creek, was owned by JohnGorgas, who lived near Allens lane. Boone & Carmans factory is on the site.John Gorgas was a tanner and ran the old mill. Bechtels Paper Mills were two large stone buildings on the south side ofCresheim creek, about a quarter of a mile above its mouth. The lower millyears ago was used as a woolen spinning mill by Joseph Hill and afterward asa cotton spinning mill by his son, Milton Hill. It has since been unoccupied.It is owned by H. H. Houston. The upper mill, about sixty-five years ago,.
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MOUNT AIRY. • 363 was owned by Joseph Carr, who made cotton laps. He rented it afterward toThomas Randall & Son for spinning woolen yarn. It is now unoccupiedand owned by Mr. Houston. Above the last mill, on the north side, is a mill,which, about seventy years ago, was owned by David Hinkle and used as agrist mill. His son Jesse continued this business. J. and E. France boughtit and used it as a shoddy mill. They sold to David Hey who used it for thesame purpose. A fire destroyed it during his ownership and it has been inruins ever since. Mr. Hey still owns the property. Still further up, on thesouth side, is a mill, which, forty years since, was owned by J. and E. France,and used as a carpet mill. They sold it to David Hey, who utilized it as ashoddy mill and still uses it for the same purpose. These are all the mills onCresheim creek and are all between the turnpike bridge and the Wissahickon. I am indebted to Mr. David Hinkle, of Germantown, for this information : The lower B

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