Gift Shop

Our Gift Shop has a wonderful selection of children's and educational 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.

To order from the list below, please print and fill out the order form. (Sorry, we only accept checks or money orders for mailorder items.)

Commemorative Pewter Plates
Inscribed with the "WR" watermark of William Rittenhouse celebrating the village's 300th anniversary.
$50.00

Commemorative Tile with Nicholas Rittenhouse Watermark
$20.00

Historic Rittenhouse Town Pennsylvania Roadside Marker Magnet
$2.00

RittenhouseTown's Regiment of Revolutionary War Tin Soldiers
These beautiful tin soldiers are specially made for HRT and hand painted by the Edna Young Company. Specify American or British- Drummer, Fifer, Flagman, Rifleman or Lady Liberty (please check for availability)
Hanging ornaments $8.00
Standing Ornament: $10.00
Standing Flagman: $12.00

RittenhouseTown Canvas Shoulder Bag
The bag is a cream colored bag with black handles, which is attractively decorated with a green woodcut print of the Rittenhouse Homestead.
$8.00

First Day Issue Commemorative Postcard
For RittenhouseTown's 300th anniversary in 1990, canceled by the Post Office in New York.
$1.00

Color Postcards
Rittenhouse Family Homestead or David Rittenhouse's portrait by Charles Willson Peale.
$.35 each or 3/$1.00

Official Friends of the Wissahickon Map of the Wissahickon Valley
$6.00

Books

The Rittenhouse Mill and the Beginnings of Papermaking in America
By James Green.
Published in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia, traces the history of the Rittenhouse mills.
$5.00

If You Were There in 1776
by Barbara Brenner.
A delightful Book for young people that reveals the spirit of this exciting period in history.
$17.00

Private Yankee Doodle
by J. P. Martin.
This book recreates the daily life of a Revolutionary War soldier.
$5.95

A History of Paper
Printed for Historic RittenhouseTown by the Fraser Paper Company. Gives the history of the papermaking from its origins in China to contemporary practices.
$2.00

The Surprise of Germantown October 4, 1777
by Thomas J. McGuire.
This book recounts the details of the Battle of Germantown during the Revolutionary War.
$14.95

Special Offer

Images of America: Germantown, Mount Airy, and Chestnut Hill
by Judith Callard of Germantown Historical Society
This book offers a photographic history of the historic Northwest section of Philadelphia.
Original Price $18.99 now $13.00

Images of America: Chestnut Hill
by Thomas H. Keels and Elizabeth Farmer Jarvis of Chestnut Hill Historical Society
This book is a history of Chestnut Hill, a beautiful urban village in Philadelphia, told with photographs.
Original Price $19.99 now $13.00

Please use our printable order form to order gifts.