MILESTONES. 71 



Between the date of setting up the stones on the road to 

 Trenton, as above, and the years 1770 or 1772, a reference is 

 found in the minutes to the setting up of stones " on the road 

 to Newcastle," Delaware: that is, the main road to the 

 south, just referred to, although no report at length or in 

 detail appears. Two of these old stones, at any rate, yet 

 remain. On the post road, an eighth of a mile south of where 

 it crosses the main street 'Market Street; in Marcus Hook, is 

 Xo. 19. It is fifteen inches wide, five and a half inches 

 thick, twenty-two inches out of the ground, and in the grass 

 plat between the cement sidewalk and the curb, where it is 

 likely to be undisturbed for years. It is not of the uniform 

 Leiper granite — those quarries were but little opened and 

 worked at that date — but of apparently a ''Baltimore 

 granite,"" so called. A more mixed and rougher stone. A 

 mile further, perhaps an eighth of a mile over the State line 

 and in Delaware, stands, in a bank, in front of a hour^e, Xo. 

 20. Both these stones are in a good state of preservation, are 

 different in the markings from the turnpike stones, in the 

 kind of stone as stated, in the size and dimensions, and are 

 palpably not of the turnpike series. And in addition, they 

 have the '' Penn arms " on the back, that I will refer to later. 



The State in Schuylkill, or historic old fishing club of early 

 days, had its first "Castle'" at the Falls of Schuylkill, and 

 later at Rarabo's rock, opposite John Bartram's place, below 

 Gray's Ferry. In 1887 it removed to its present location on 

 the Delaware, near Comwalls, taking its original building 

 with it. In the extended history of the Club, of 1889, it is 

 stated, page 214, that two of the above milestones were 

 acquired by it. 



"At the March meeting, of 1862, the Chairman of the Boat Commit- 

 tee reported that tliey had secured for the Company two valuable relics, 

 viz. : two original milestones of tlie Gray's Ferry road bearing the 

 ' Penn coat of arms,' one of which was brought from a few rods below 

 the U. S. Arsenal (its original position), and was placed at the comer of 

 the Castle and the other from opposite the old Gray's Ferry House, on 



