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trip to Pittsburg, and were a large source of revenue to the 

 old taverns that averaged one to every mile in the old days on 

 that road. Read Julius Sachse's book on "The Wayside 

 Inns of the Old Lancaster Road." It is delightful in its 

 account of the conditions of those days, of the stage coaches, 

 the horseback riders, the wagoners and drovers and the gentry. 

 Then the first railroad, the Philadelphia and Columbia, which 

 later became — and now is the main line of — the Pennsylvania 

 Railroad, and is close to the pike for man}' miles. This rail- 

 road, upon which the first cars were drawn by horses, and 

 which was soon double tracked, largely because of the fights 

 that occurred between drivers of opposing" "trains," who 

 wouldn't get out of the way for one another. And it was 

 alongside this old Lancaster Pike that the first locomotive in 

 the County was used, the " Black Hawk," said to have been 

 imported from England in 1834, but which didn't do very 

 well, and was soon junked and lost track of, as well as 

 another early locomotive, the "America," of interest to us 

 as having been built in our County, at Cardington by Cole- 

 man Sellers, in his machine shop and foundrj^ that was estab- 

 lished there about 1831 on Cobb's Creek. This "America" 

 is listed in the first seventeen engines that the railroad com- 

 pany owned, and was used in 1836. And these old, white 

 milestones since have witnessed — but half a generation ago — 

 the coming of the gasoline devil cars, that now tear by at more 

 miles an hour than the old Conestoga days could conceive of, 

 only to be presently eclipsed and distanced by the marvel 

 wonder-birds of the heavens — the aeroplanes — that seem to 

 take heed of neither speed nor distance. 



West Chester Pike. This pike runs for some thirteen 

 miles through the County, and in these days begins at the Phil- 

 adelphia City line, at Sixty-third and Market Streets. In the 

 old da^'S it began at Thirty-second and Market. These stones, 

 too, are of uniform size and design, but appear to be made of 

 a Leiper granite or similar stone. 



