Background:
In the mid-nineteenth century, Gideon D. Harmer lived in a brick house on the west corner of Saur Kraut Alley or Tull Street, with his shoe factory in the rear.

Sources:

• GHS: Jellett, Edwin C. "Germantown Historical Miscellany," p. 232: "Old Poor House Lane" (news article written October 8, 1898 ).

• HSP: Perkins Collection vol. 62, p. 55: "A Pen Picture of Old Poor House Lane Fifty Years Ago" (news article dated November 20, 1903).