Spring Forward

When John Mifflin Sr. and his son, John Jr., came to—what is now—Pennsylvania in the late 17th century (surprisingly, even before William Penn), they established a large and beautiful estate in the present-day section of Fairmount Park in Philadelphia. The Mifflins called it 'Fountain Green.' This stereograph taken pre-1900 shows a springhouse or root cellar, one of the few structures which remained of Fountain Green at that time. These days, nothing is left in evidence of the Mifflin's bold venture.

In this early trolley map, Fountain Green is still referenced, but by that time there only existed a crumbling ruin.