Daily News | Living and working — with history, nature, ghosts, and water snakes — in a 300-year-old Wissahickon Valley Park house
“These parks are all peak public assets, including about 200 buildings, many of them considered historic, like Glen Fern,” McCarthy said. “People come together around these public assets, and it’s really important for us to keep the buildings part of the park experience.”Wissahickon Valley Park could need $2 million to add enough toilets to handle its crowds
The original structure consisted of a single room with an enormous hearth that remains a centerpiece of today’s much larger house. Glen Fern was originally known as the, for the family that bought the house and corn-grinding mill on the property — one of many mills along the creek in the second half of the 18th century.
Despite descriptions on some vintage postcards, the Livezey house never served as a headquarters for Gen. George Washington in 1776. “This false legend was made [up] by early-19th-century postcard makers in Germany,” Johnson said. “There’s a lot of lore and legends around this house, along with the actual facts.”Adams described living at Glen Fern as “cohabiting with nature” and as a source of connection.
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