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not differing much in its outside architecture from 

 other mansions of the kind in the neighborhood, 

 nor from the ordinary country inns of eastern 

 Pennsylvania. The earhest portion of the hotel 

 was built in 1809, and was duplicated by an addi- 

 tional stone building on the east in 1836, during 

 the time George Cummings kept the hostelry. 

 Prior to the first stone building there was an old 

 red frame building — a relic of the Colonial days 

 and good King George III — on the site, and 

 'neath two great poplars swung the sign of the 

 'Rose Tree,' with its rose bush, which some of 

 the old residenters can recall. This old sign was 

 lately found in a disused hay-rick in the vicinity, 

 and was handed over to the hunting club, who 

 prize it very much. 



"the inn in early times. 



"John Kirk, who lives within a stone's throw 

 of the inn, and who is a remarkably well-preserved 

 specimen of the old-time country gentleman, can 

 well remember the old frame inn and its early 

 proprietorship under the Cochrans — James, who 

 was the first keeper, and then his son, Isaac. 

 Changing hands with the rushing changes of time, 

 the old inn comes down patched and altered 

 until the present era, but always retaining its old- 

 time title and ancient reputation. After the 



