Once the vacation spot of choice for colonial Philadelphians, today visitors come to stroll the cobblestoned streets dusted with more than 100 shops, the Morris Arboretum and Yeakel cottage—one of the 13 original homes built around 1687.
About 2 mi/3.2 km down the road in
Germantown is Wyck, a house with the original furnishings from a Quaker family who came to North America with William Penn in 1687. Other historical stops include
Upsala, where the Revolutionary Army camped during the Battle of Germantown; Johnson House, part of the Underground Railroad; and Rittenhouse Town, a preserved 18th-century industrial village and the site of America's first paper mill.
Chestnut Hill is 12 mi/19 km north of Philadelphia.