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is under the trees near the drive, as it turns at the' foot of the 

 hill, near the house. In a book entitled " Colonial Homes of 

 Philadelphia, etc.," by Eberlein and Lippincott, it is stated, 

 page 165, that this stone was removed from the old Haverford 

 road, "where it had been set up in 1793." I wrote both of the 

 editors, asking the authority for that date of erection, but got 

 no satisfactory answer or statement except that it "was a mis- 

 print and should have read 1703." Which latter date I 

 believe to be a total error and not right at all. 



All of these Haverford road stones are characterized by a 

 square panel or recess cut in the face of the stone, in which 

 panel is cut the single, large, distance figure alone, without 

 any " M " or usual words "to P." 



Third, The Coopertown road, as now called ; also known 

 as the old Darby and Radnor road. There still stands a 

 single stone. No. 10, of the same pattern as the Haverford 

 road stones. It cannot have been removed from Haverford 

 road, as No. 10 on that road is also still in place back of the 

 College, as stated. It stands a little west of the road from 

 Eagle tavern, on West Chester pike, to Ardmore, and not 

 very far from the Haverford Meeting House, which latter is 

 the oldest one in the County, having been built in 1700. The 

 meeting houses, we know, were centre points, and objectives 

 of highway communication. The only reference to the stones 

 on this old road, perhaps — and I think, probably, relating to 

 such — is in what is known as an " Historical Atlas of Dela- 

 ware County," published in 1875, in which — in the text on 

 page XIX — is the following : — 



"The road from Haverford to Darby, commonly known in early 

 times as the Goshen road, was laid out in 1687. On it are still some of 

 the old milestones which were doubtless imported from England about 

 the time the road was constructed." 



This surmise as to having been imported, I believe to be 

 wrong. There is plenty, of stone locally available and stone 

 cutters were not lacking ; the stone is similar to the Contribu- 



