A Journey to Philadelphia, 1870
Written by Forrest Moyer on September 18, 2018
“…we went up in the steeple of the State house, where we have seen the greatest part of the city….”
Photo above: View southeast from the State House, 1867. Scrapbooks. Free Library of Philadelphia.
This account of a trip (mostly pleasure, a little business) from rural Berks-Montgomery County to the city of Philadelphia was written by 15-year-old Enos Gehman in 1871. Over a hundred years later it was published in the MHEP Newsletter April 1978, and is now republished here, with photos