. The Pennsylvania-German Society : [Publications]. f that vessel placed on his house. The front partof the building was built about 1766 and is of stone andrough cast, and was a model hostelry in its day. WhenGeorge Peters kept the hotel the sign board had upon it:Gen. Waynes Treaty with the Indians. He was fol-lowed by Josiah Wood, who owned and kept the of the main building and over the wagon shed wasbuilt the first public hall in Germantown, which held aboutone hundred and fifty people. Wendell Phillips andHorace Greely held forth here in the early forties; it wasalso used for p
. The Pennsylvania-German Society : [Publications]. f that vessel placed on his house. The front partof the building was built about 1766 and is of stone andrough cast, and was a model hostelry in its day. WhenGeorge Peters kept the hotel the sign board had upon it:Gen. Waynes Treaty with the Indians. He was fol-lowed by Josiah Wood, who owned and kept the of the main building and over the wagon shed wasbuilt the first public hall in Germantown, which held aboutone hundred and fifty people. Wendell Phillips andHorace Greely held forth here in the early forties; it wasalso used for prayer meeting and singing schools. TheAmerican armys horses were accommodated at the stableswhile the Revolutionary army was here. About 1836 thehouse ceased to be used as a tavern and it became a board-ing school for a number of years. It is now a private resi-dence. On the corner of Phil-Ellena street (Church H x mm > I* 5 2 o w O 2z > > o £ I I 1 - - , - - .- L HH - > H m m -z I c z X o c c °> ^ r1 m —~ - : : ^- f i > -J i. m ?om zz CO <r z om 3 > z CO oom -\< Old Time Inns and Taverns. 49 street) is an old building that at one time was a famousinn. During the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphiamany people came to Germantown and all the inns andboarding houses were filled. This place was kept byGeorge Hesser, and it was here that Elizabeth Drinkerand her family stopped. She wrote part of her interestingjournal here. Part of the building was cut away in widen-ing the street and in doing so they destroyed some inter-esting figures over the windows. Two of them were headsof children, one was crying and the other was opposite stood the famous Buck Hotel. It wastorn down when they opened West Phil-Ellena street. There were a number of old-time taverns in this locality. On the corner of Carpenter street, where the Fire De-partment No. 9 has erected their new building, was theold Germantown Hotel, at one time known as the Farm-ers an
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