Castner Scrapbook v.4, Old Houses 1, page 46

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Castner Scrapbook v.4, Old Houses 1, page 46

Item Info

Item No: pdcc00279
Title: Castner Scrapbook v.4, Old Houses 1, page 46
Additional Title: Fairman's Mansion & Treaty Tree.
Media Type: Scrapbooks
Source: Print and Picture Collection
Notes:

Inscribed below title is the following: Built 1702. Taken down 1825. Tree blown down Saturday night March 3rd. 1810. Girth of trunk 34 feet. Age 283 years.


Notes:

View shows Thomas Fairman's mansion opposite the Treaty Elm. Fairman was William Penn's deputy surveyor.

http://www.penntreatymuseum.org/treaty.php

 


Call Number: A917.481 P536 v.4
Creator Name: Brittan, S. B. (Samuel Byron), -1883 - Artist
Serz, John, approximately 1810-approximately 1878 - Engraver
Castner, Samuel, Jr., 1843-1929 - Compiler