Gift Shop

Our Gift Shop has a wonderful selection of children's and adult's books on the colonial history and the American Revolution. We also have a wide-range of gift items, colonial children's toys, cookbooks, handmade paper items and much more! If you need something for someone special or if you would like to treat yourself, please give us call (215) 438-5711 and we will be happy to tell you about additional items. Your purchases support our preservation, restoration, research, and education programs.

Exclusive RittenhouseTown Items Colonial Period Reproductions Childrens' Gifts & Books Papermaking items Limited Quantities
Exclusive RittenhouseTown Items

plate1. Commemorative Pewter Plate made in USA by Wilton Armetale. This 10” plate features the famous WR watermark of William Rittenhouse

$50.00

2. Print of the Rittenhouse Homestead
An 8” X 7” print suitable for framing. It depicts the 1707 Rittenhouse Homestead where David Rittenhouse was born.

$1.00 Sold Out

3. RittenhouseTown Notecards 4x6 folded note cards with Rittenhouse Homestead illustration.

$2.00 each

$8.95 for five

4. United States Postal Service Commemorative Post Card
A first day issue postcard, hand cancelled on the issuance date of May 13, 1990, to commemorate the 300th anniversary of North America’s first paper mill at RittenhouseTown.

$1.00

5. RittenhouseTown Magnets
Miniatures of the site’s official wayside marker issued by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

$2.00

6. Commemorative Watermark Tiles
These handmade 6” X 6” tiles depict the 1701 watermark of Nicholas Rittenhouse.

$16.00

7. Milestones in History Map
A 9” X 12” map, suitable for framing. It depicts all of the historic sites in Philadelphia’s original Roxborough township, including RittenhouseTown.

$1.00

8. Handmade RittenhouseTown Paper
Manufactured using the same methods as the Rittenhouse Family. Includes seal with WR watermark of William Rittenhouse.

Individual sheet & envelope. $3.00

Pack of 5 sheets & envelopes. $15.00

9. Traditional Taper Candles
hand dipped for Historic RittenhouseTown using early American methods.

8” length (Box of two) $4.50

10” Length (Box of two) $4.95

10. The Rittenhouse Mill and the Beginnings of Papermaking in America by James Green
A wonderful book tracing the early history of papermaking and the
Rittenhouse Family during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Published in coopera tion with the Library Company of Philadelphia.

5.00

11. A History of Paper
traces the early beginnings of papermaking in civilization until the modern era. Printed for Historic RittenhouseTown by Fraser Paper, Ltd.

$2.00

12a. Color Postcards of the Rittenhouse Homestead

$.35 each

3 for $1.00

12b. Color Postcards of the 18th century portrait of David Rittenhouse by Charles Willson Peale.

$.35 each

3 for $1.00

13. Hearthside with Susan McLellan Plaisted: A December Bill of Fare at Pottsgrove Manor
Cooking demonstration.

DVD. $20.00

mug14. Rittenhouse Homestead 300th Anniversary Mug
Attractive gold ink on black mug

$8.00

cats Meow15. Rittenhouse Homestead Anniversary Woodcut by Cat’s Meow®
Very collectible!

$15.00

16. RittenhouseTown water bottle

$3.50

17. The 2007 Paper Mill Run Commemorative Race T-Shirt

$10.00

The Colonial Period & American Revolution

18. Private Yankee Doodle by Joseph Plumb Martin
One of the best first hand accounts of the Revolutionary as recorded by a private soldier.

$5.95

19. The Surprise at Germantown October 4, 1777 by Thomas J. Maguire
An account of the epic battle that involved all of Germantown.

$14.95

20. Encyclopedia of the American Revolution by Mark M. Boatner III
An essential reference tool for any student or scholar of the American evolutionary War.

Originally $39.95 Sold out

21. Glory, Passion & Principles: The Story of Eight Remarkable Women at the Core of the American Revolution by Melissa Lukeman Bohrer

Originally $24.00 Now $7.99

22. United States Constitution

$1.50

With colonial-era quill $3.00

23. Declaration of Independence

$1.50

With colonial-era quill $3.00

24. The Bill of Rights

$1.50

With colonial era quill $3.00

25. David Rittenhouse Commemorative Coin

$2.00

Childrens' Gifts & Books

26. If You Lived at the Time of the American Revolution by Kay Moore

5.99

27. The Winter of the Red Snow-Valley Forge 1777: The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart

$10.95

28. If You Were There At the Time of the American Revolution by Barbara Brenner

$17.00

29. If You Liven in Williamsburg in Colonial Days by Barbara Brenner

$5.99

30. What’s the Big Idea Ben Franklin by Jean Fritz

$6.99

31. If You Lived in Colonial Days by Ann McGovern

$5.99

32. If You Were There When They Signed the Constitution by Elizabeth Levy

$5.99

33. Independence Hall, Colonial Carriage or Revolutionary War Cannon
Pencil Sharpeners

$2.00

34. Jacobs Ladder Wooden Toy

$9.95

35. Bag of American Revolutionary War Soldiers

Small $2.25

Large $7.75

36. Jaw Harp

$4.50

37. Penny Whistle

$8.00

38. Bag of Pewter Jacks

$6.50

39. Reproduction Iron Key to Independence Hall

$7.00

40. Miniature Sundial

$6.50

 
Papermaking Tools

41. Complete Papermaking Kit

$60.00

 
Limited Quantities

42. Images of America-Chestnut Hill by Thomas H. Keel & Elizabeth Farmer Jarvis
Beautiful period photographs and a fascinating history of one of the closest Philadelphia neighborhoods to RittenhouseTown.

Originally $19.99 Now $13.00

43. In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witch Curse of 1692 by Mary Beth Norton
As RittenhouseTown was establishing itself in the 1690s, dramatic events were occurring in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Originally $15.00 Now $4.99

To order by phone call (215) 438-5711 or by mail please print and fill out the order form. (Sorry, we only accept checks or money orders for mail and phone orders.)

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