Montgomery County, PA

At the top of the square, this obelisk, built in 1884, commemorates David Rittenhouse (1732-1796), the “American Newton”.  Certainly the most famous scientist from Montgomery County and part of the same family for which Rittenhouse Park was named, Rittenhouse fixed a surveyor’s benchmark near this point from which surveyors measured plots near and far.

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