RARE AXD NOTABLE PLANTS 



cause it was open ground with only 

 here and there groups of trees. After 

 the survey lines were established 

 farms and gardens, and of course, 

 houses, were located on each side of 

 the main road, the farm boundaries 

 extending in parallel lines from the 

 "great road" east to Bristol township 

 line, now Stenton avenue, and west 

 to the Roxborough line, now Wissa- 

 hickon avenue. In other respects 

 these lines, however, were never 

 strictly drawn, and places on York 

 road to the east, and Roxborough on 

 the west, were nearly always referred 

 to as "Germantown." 



The Main street farm lots began a 

 few feet north of "Lower Burying 

 Ground," now Hood's Cemetery, and 

 were plotted northward in divisions 

 of "half lots" of 1151/2 feet front each, 

 or "whole lots" of 231 feet front each, 

 to a point adjoining "Upper" or "Con- 

 cord Burying Ground," located a few 

 feet north of Kyser's, now Washing- 

 ton lane. The original settlers of 

 "42 persons in 12 families" were lo- 

 cated upon this road, for so it had 

 been planned. In "a further account 

 of the Province of Pennsylvania," 

 published in 1685, wrote Penn: 



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