This is a photo essay of Roxborough. It it includes many locations in Roxborough, as well as a few prominent ones in Manayunk and the Wissahickon (which have relavence to Roxborough). 

 

The photos were taken on a cold, rainy Sunday, so there are not a lot of people out and about.

 

Special thanks to Stephen Jones, a Roxborough resident, for helping find these locations and supplying information.

 

Note: All photo captions refer to the photo above the caption.

 

 

 

 

Rittenhouse Town, the first paper mill in British North America

 

 

 

Rittenhouse Town

 

 

 

Rittenhouse Town

 

 

 

Rittenhouse Town

 

 

 

Rittenhouse Town

 

 

 

"Lovers' Leap" along the Wissahickon Creek

 

 

 

The trail along the Wissahickon Creek. Lincoln Drive is to the left. The Henry Avenue bridge can be seen in the distance.

  

Henry Avenue bridge over the Wissahickon. Some say this bridge is what led to the suburbanization of Roxborough. This bridge also has subway tunnels underneath the road bed. 

 

Police station

 

 

 

Ice cream place

 

 

 

Kelpius Community historical marker - Johannes Kelpius and other lived in this area in the late 1600s.

 

 

 

A trail through the Wissahickon, on the way to the cave...

 

 

 

"The Cave" where Kelpius supposedly lived.

 

 

 

This is not an official historical marker, and is of questionable accuracy.

 

 

 

I got wet.

 

 

 

A house in the Wissahickon

 

 

 

This church in Roxborough was, in the industrial days, where the managers used to go.

 

 

 

Roxborough Memorial Hospital

 

 

 

The original building of Roxborough Memorial Hospital

 

 

 

 

Kendrick Recreation Center and Playground

 

 

 

Mishkan Shalom, a progressive synagogue, located in a former paper mill.

 

 

 

St John the Baptist Church, next to Pretel Park in Manayunk.

 

 

For your convienence, the second half of the photo essay is on a second page.