| 1683 |
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First settlement of Germantown |
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| 1688 |
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Protest Against Slavery |
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| 1689 |
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Hans Millan buys Lot
17, now Wyck. |
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| c. 1690 |
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First paper mill in
Rittenhousetown |
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| c. 1700-20 |
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Middle section of
Wyck built |
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| 1705 |
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First stone Quaker
meeting house built |
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| 1721 |
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Catherine Jansen marries
Caspar Wistar |
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| 1730's-50's |
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Peak period of German
immigration |
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| 1736 |
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Front section of Wyck
built for Dirk Jansen |
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| 1760 |
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Germantown Academy
founded |
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| 1771-72 |
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Back section of Wyck
built for Reuben Haines I |
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| 1777 |
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Battle of Germantown |
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| 1793 |
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Yellow Fever epidemic-
Washington flees to Germantown |
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| 1793 |
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Caspar Wistar Haines
moves to Wyck year round |
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| 1795 |
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Wakefield textile
mill open |
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| 1799 |
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Exterior of Wyck
is stuccoed |
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| 1801 |
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Germantown Turnpike
incorporated |
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| 1809 |
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Wyck given its name
by Reuben Haines III |
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| 1824 |
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William Strickland
remodels Wyck |
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| 1825 |
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General Lafayette
visits Germantown and Wyck |
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| 1831 |
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Bronson Alcott opens
his school Germantown |
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| 1831 |
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Leicester Mills open,
later Germantown Hosiery Mills |
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| 1832 |
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First railroad comes
to Germantown |
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| 1843 |
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Jane Bowne Haines
dies-Jane Reuben Haines and Cousin Ann Haines live at Wyck |
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| 1851 |
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First water company
and gas company in Germantown |
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| 1854 |
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Germantown incorporated
into the City of Philadelphia |
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| 1854 |
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Germantown Cricket
Club founded |
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| 1859 |
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First street car
line in Germantown |
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| 1850's-80's |
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Some Wyck farmland
is sold for houses-Walnut Lane developed |
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| 1863-65 |
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Cuyler Hospital for
the Union Army started near the present GermantownTown Hall |
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| 1874 |
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Germantown Avenue
becomes public-paved with granite blocks |
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| 1881-84 |
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Reading Railroad opens-Wayne
Junction station and Pennsylvania Railroad stations built
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| 1891 |
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Wyck barn sold |
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| 1894 |
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Trolleys are put
in use |
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| 1900 |
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Germantown Site &
Relic Society founded |
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| 1903 |
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First apartment building
in Germantown |
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| 1911 |
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Jane Reuben Haines
dies |
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| 1912-35 |
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Caspar Wistar Haines
II lives at and preserves Wyck |
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| 1927 |
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150th Anniversary
Celebration of the Battle of Germantown |
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| 1935-73 |
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Mary T. and Robert
B. Haines III mainly use Wyck as a winter home |
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| 1974 |
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Wyck welcomes first
visitors as an historic house and garden. |
