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They were “The Women in the Wilderness”, forty German Pietists who, in 1694, settled by the Wissahickon near Hermits Lane in Roxborough. A cave and spring in Fairmount Park are said to have been used by their leader, Johannes Kelpius, and bear his name. Source: Saches, J.F., German Pietists of Provincial Pennsylvania, 1895.
