livezey's

Updated: May 10, 2025

Farmers brought their grain hither for miles around, and the mill prospered. Gradually a large West Indian trade was built up in flour contaminated with garlic and unmarketable in Philadelphia, the ships returning with silk, crêpes and beautiful china, so that Livezey's son John became a prominent Philadelphia merchant.

Frank Cousins - The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia

In the midst of virgin forest at the end of Livezey's Lane in Germantown on the banks of Wissahickon Creek, stands Glen Fern, more commonly known as the Livezey house, with numerous old buildings near by which in years past were mills, granaries and cooper shops.

Frank Cousins - The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia