Philadelphia, United States of America
Mom Rinker's Rock is a scenic outlook in Wissahickon Valley Park along the Wissahickon Creek in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located on a ridge on the eastern side of the park just a little north of the Walnut Lane Bridge, close by the statue dedicated to Toleration.
The outlook is named after Molly "Mom" Rinker (died in 1814 or 1815), a bartender and spy during the American Revolutionary War. She was known for supposedly gathering secret knowledge of plans and movements by secretly overhearing British soldiers who stopped at her bar to get drunk, talk between themselves of plans and missions which they planned to use against American troops during the war, after the British occupation of Philadelphia. Molly Rinker supposedly dropped balls of yarn from the lookout, containing messages about the British soldier's plans inside. American soldiers pass by, and where the soldiers would pick up the yarns and discover the notes to George Washington. It has been said that Molly Rinker died in 1814 (or 1815) by accidentally falling off the same mountain cliff which she had dropped her notes 30 years earlier during the American Revolutionary War. In 1883 John...
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