Rittenhouse
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People with Rittenhouse surname

  • Ariel Rittenhouse
    Ariel Rittenhouse
    Ariel Rittenhouse is an American diving athlete. Rittenhouse won a silver medal at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Rittenhouse placed 4th in the synchronized springboard...

     (born 1990), US female athlete in swimming and diving
  • David Rittenhouse
    David Rittenhouse
    David Rittenhouse was a renowned American astronomer, inventor, clockmaker, mathematician, surveyor, scientific instrument craftsman and public official...

     (1732–1796), US astronomer, inventor, mathematician, and public official
  • Moses F. Rittenhouse
    Moses F. Rittenhouse
    Moses Franklin Rittenhouse was a Canadian-American businessman and philanthropist who made his fortune in the lumber business in Chicago after moving there in 1864.-Philanthropy:...

     (1846-?), Canadian-born US businessman
  • William Rittenhouse
    William Rittenhouse
    -Life:William Rittenhouse was born in Germany with the name Wilhelm Rittenhausen. His name as "Willm Rittenhuysen" was on a petition for naturalization of residents of German Town, Pennsylvania dated 7th May 1691....

     (1644–1708), German-born US businessman and papermaker

Places

  • Rittenhouse (crater)
    Rittenhouse (crater)
    Rittenhouse is a small lunar crater that is located in the southern part of the Moon's far side. It lies amidst the western outer ramparts of the immense walled plain Schrödinger. To the west is the prominent crater Hale, just visible from the Earth along the lunar limb.This is a rounded but not...

    , a crater on the far side of the Moon
  • Rittenhouse Gap, Pennsylvania
    Rittenhouse Gap, Pennsylvania
    Rittenhouse Gap is the name of a village in Longswamp Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, at .The gap which gives the town its name lies between the headwaters of Swabia Creek, in the Lehigh River watershed, and an unnamed tributary of the Perkiomen Creek, in the Schuylkill River watershed...

    , a village in the US state of Pennsylvania
  • Rittenhouse Square
    Rittenhouse Square
    Rittenhouse Square is one of the five original open-space parks planned by William Penn and his surveyor Thomas Holme during the late 17th century in central Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The park cuts off 19th Street at Walnut Street and also at a half block above Manning Street. Its boundaries are...

    , one of the five original open-space parks in central Philadelphia in the US state of Pennsylvania
  • RittenhouseTown Historic District
    RittenhouseTown Historic District
    The Rittenhousetown Historic District was an early industrial community where the first paper mill in British North America was built by William Rittenhouse and his son Nicholas on the north bank of Monoshone Creek near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Flax was woven into linen in nearby Germantown...

    , an historic area surrounding the first paper mill erected in British Colonial America

Other

  • SS David Rittenhouse, a ship of the US Navy, launched during World War II (1943)
  • a train operated by Amtrak as part of the Clocker
    Clocker (Amtrak)
    Clocker was an Amtrak rail service operating between Philadelphia and New York City on the Northeast Corridor. It was the first service to be officially operated by Amtrak, when train number 235 left New York's Penn Station at 12:05 AM on May 1, 1971 bound for Philadelphia. The last Clocker train...

    service
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