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Title: The guide book to historic Germantown
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Jenkins, Charles Francis, 1865-1951 Site and Relic Society of Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Publisher: Germantown
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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position, with a quiet family. They will break-fast you, but you must mess in a tavern ; there is a good oneacross the street. This is the way all must do, and all I thinkwill not be able to get even half beds. About the first of December danger from the fever havingabated Washington and the members of his cabinet moved intoPhiladelphia. East Penn Street used to be called Shoemakers Lane forShoemakers big house which stood on the northeast corner ofthis and the Main Street. A short distance beyond the Read-ing Railway on the left hand side going out is the Rock House.Its origin is unknown, but it is said to be one of the oldesthouses in Philadelphia. The low ground behind it at one timewas called Mehls meadow, and, with the Wingohocking Creekwinding through it, it was a delightful spot. William Penn issaid to have preached at one time from this elevation to thepeople assembled below him in the meadow. In this meadowbefore the Battle some of the British cavalry had theirencampment. 54
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55 HISTORIC GERMANTOWN St. Lukes Church, at northeast corner of Main and CoulterStreets, was the first Episcopal congregation organized in Ger-mantown (1811). The church then contained about twelvefamilies in and about Germantown. The first building on thepresent site was erected in 1818 and it has been enlarged andaltered many times since. The Friends Meeting (connected with Arch Street YearlyMeeting), occupies the grounds in the rear of the Linden hotel,northwest corner of Coulter and Main Streets. It has never been fully determined just how many of the firstsettlers of Germantown were members of the Society of Friends,but a meeting was established very soon after their arrival.It first met at the home of Thones Kunders, now 5109 MainStreet, and at other private houses. Jacob Shoemaker earlygave the meeting three square perches of land, and the pre-sumption is a log meeting house was erected on it. In 1693 heconveyed to the meeting fifty acres, of which the three squareperches was a

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