Wissahickon Valley Park

An engraving drawn from the c. 1920 photograph of Valley Green Inn: the inn as it was photographed, and before it a tea party at dusk, the talking board among the tea things, two of the guests translucent

PHILADELPHIA · NOVEMBER 3, 1874 — HIGH 57°, LOW 37° · NO RAIN RECORDED

Welcome, traveler.
Seven inns stood on the creek — five gone, one shut, one open.

Also at the mouth of the creek: The High Bridge Hotel The old Robeson house at Ridge Avenue and Wissahickon Drive, under the railroad High Bridge. Not one of the seven inns.

Across the creek, on the river: Riverside Mansion The Robesons' Milverton, later a hotel with a steamer landing on its own bank. Not one of the seven inns, and not the High Bridge Hotel.

Up the Cresheim Creek, in the Chestnut Hill woods: Buttercup Cottage

A summer home for working girls, 1889 — its stone barn still stands as a ruin off Cresheim Valley Drive. Not one of the seven inns.

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