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Isaac Thomas, and from that place came to Palmer's Mill. 

 Judge Johnson, while at Sycamore was granted the use of 

 the Union Library by Thomas Minshall, one of its members, 

 and much of his lifelong love for reading he attributes to this 

 circumstance. He says the big, iron key of the I^ibrary used 

 to hang in the ofSce of the mill, where the various members 

 could obtain it when needed. At the sale of books of the 

 Library Company held in the Institute of Science building in 

 Media, above referred to, Judge Johnson, among others, pur- 

 chased a number of the books. Recently in glancing over 

 one of these old books the Judge found in it the mark of the 

 Willistown Library, Willistown Township being a bordering 

 township in the neighboring County of Chester, and not very 

 far distant from Sycamore. From this circumstance he hazards 

 the conjecture that the Union Library might have been formed 

 around a nucleus of books from the still older Willistown 

 Library. 



I.OG CABINS. 



Within no great distance of Bishop's MilH= there remain 

 to-day several landmarks of old times which, although but 

 little is known of their histoiy, form part of the romance of 

 the neighborhood. These are several log cabins, one on the 

 Painter Road, two on the Honeycomb t Church Road, and one 

 on the Providence Road, still used and occupied as dwellings. 

 The old landmarks of this character have almost entirely dis- 

 appeared from our county, and for that reason it is thought 

 well to preserve here some little record of those of this vicinity. 

 What little is known of them is here given. 



The first, and that about which most is known, is shown 

 in Figure i. It is located on the road leading from the 



■" He it liorne in mind that the mill has, from time to time, had 

 various names : The Providence Corn :\Iill, Providence ^Mill, Bishop's 

 Mill, Velotte's Mill, Sycamore Mill. 



t So called from the " honexcomh stone'" in the l()calit\-. 



