68 SHELTON : 



for it was rather usual and convenient to have them near. 

 The stone is old and dirty looking, but seems to be of marble 

 and measures four inches thick by seventeen inches face and 

 reads simply "6 M to P." 



Chester Pike. Chester pike, variously called the " post 

 road," or the old King's or the old Queen's road, was one of 

 the first laid out in the Province of Pennsylvania, dating from 

 about 1706. The pike company was organized, I believe, in 

 the 1840's, and the stones presumably date from that time. 

 They are about the same uniform size and appearance as the 

 Lancaster and West Chester pike stones, viz. : about twelve 

 inches face and six inches thickness, but are of Leiperville 

 granite, I think, same as the West Chester pike ones. It is 

 more than probable that this stone was used, for the pike 

 passes close to several notable quarries of such stone in this 

 district, and it is quite likely that some one stone cutter, first 

 and last, made all of the turnpike stones in that vicinity. 

 Their similarity would indicate it. 



This pike has been the most built upon of any of those 

 in the County. It is, in fact, almost continuously built up 

 from Darby, where it begins, to the far end of Marcus Hook, 

 where it ends its dozen mile stretch in the County. As a 

 result of grading, paving, sidewalk construction, etc., most of 

 the stones have disappeared. There are but three left. 



No. 9 is about a block east of No. 5 toll gate, in the bank, 

 and likely to be undisturbed. 



No. 15 is against the wall of Chester's famous old Court- 

 house, at the west corner of the building, on the inner edge of 

 the sidewalk. Mr. Ashmead thinks it has been reset in that 

 position, from its original location. 



No. 16 is at the northeast corner of Third and Howell 

 Streets, Chester. Its face is illegible. 



There is a No. 7 stone in Colwyn, in the small front yard 

 of the premises No. 211 Main Street — which is part of the 

 old pike road and the right location for the No. 7 stone. It 



