Ep 10 Grumble in the Urban Jungle
Mar 25, 2021 ·
14m 3s
Staying in my favorite city a while longer, we’re headed to Germantown in Philadelphia. We will be taking a haunting tour of a house that had played host to the...
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Staying in my favorite city a while longer, we’re headed to Germantown in Philadelphia. We will be taking a haunting tour of a house that had played host to the Revolutionary War and Yellow Fever in the late 1700’s, and examining its unsettling history. Complete with first person accounts, particularly of a fateful day on the grounds: Oct 4th, 1777, the listener is transported back in time to meet some of the personalities who supposedly still reside within its walls.
Today it is a center for horticulture and battle re-enactments, but blood literally still stains it’s floor, and ghosts still walk the halls of: Grumblethorpe.
Sources:
1. Allison Schell - Friend, collector of historical perspectives and overseer of antiquities
2. https://www.philalandmarks.org/grumblethorpe
3. https://loc.gov/pictures/item/pa0752/
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumblethorpe
5. https://the-line-up.com/grumblethorpe-haunted
6. https://www.phillyorchards.org/2020/11/19/spotlight-on-ginkgo-pretty-edible-historic/
7. https://allthingsliberty.com/2016/08/killed-general-agnew-not-hans-boyer/
8. A Knowyourstate.com article on the building
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Today it is a center for horticulture and battle re-enactments, but blood literally still stains it’s floor, and ghosts still walk the halls of: Grumblethorpe.
Sources:
1. Allison Schell - Friend, collector of historical perspectives and overseer of antiquities
2. https://www.philalandmarks.org/grumblethorpe
3. https://loc.gov/pictures/item/pa0752/
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumblethorpe
5. https://the-line-up.com/grumblethorpe-haunted
6. https://www.phillyorchards.org/2020/11/19/spotlight-on-ginkgo-pretty-edible-historic/
7. https://allthingsliberty.com/2016/08/killed-general-agnew-not-hans-boyer/
8. A Knowyourstate.com article on the building
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