Historic Rittenhouse Town

Historic RittenhouseTown is located in the Historic Northwest section of Philadelphia approximately 8 miles or 20 minutes from Philadelphia's City Hall.

William Rittenhouse, first Mennonite minister in America, erected here in 1690 the colonies' first paper fill. Successive generations of Rittenhouses built additional mills, establishing this region as the center of American paper making. By the 1850s, this village had over 40 buildings, and seven early buildings survive from this once prosperous industrial community. Scientist David Rittenhouse was born here in 1732.

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