Historic RittenhouseTown Walking Tour

Visitors to Historic RittenhouseTown will be taken on a tour of the buildings and the grounds. You can catch a quick glimpse of what you will see by clicking the "Begin Tour" arrow above.

The tour will begin with our acclaimed video, "The Fiber of History." Then the visitor will be given the opportunity to explore the rest of the exhibits in the Visitor Center: a timeline of the History of RittenhouseTown, a working model of an eighteenth century paper mill, and an exhibit on food in an early German American community. The Gift Shop in the Visitors Center will be open. Visitors will then be taken on a guided tour of RittenhouseTown. This tour will include an interpretation of the second mill site, the Rittenhouse Bakehouse, and the Rittenhouse Homestead. By request tours will also visit the Enoch Rittenhouse Home. In this building are two exhibits: We Lived Along the Wissahickon: The Blue Bell Hill Oral History Project and an 1845 circa period room, which houses many Rittenhouse artifacts.