Old Market Street, Chester, Pennsylvania
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Excerpt from Old Market Street, Chester, Pennsylvania: Historic Incidents That Have Taken Place Within, or Are Associated With This Highway I invite the reader to accompany me in a ramble along Market street from the intersection of that thoroughfare with Edgmont avenue to the Delaware river, and as we proceed I will attempt to relate the annals of the ancient highway, recalling some of the incidents that enter into the history of Market street. In doing this I will not repeat the stories of old buildings that stood or now stand along it, but shall strive to present a few of the noticeable occurrences that have taken place in the highway itself, and the memories of which have not been wholly obliterated in the lapse of years. The plan of Chester, as the residents of the old town of half a century ago remember it, was not adopted until 1700. Prior to that date, Edgmont avenue, from Front street, had been merely natural extension, following in its development the course of Chester creek, but after the establishment and rapid growth of Philadelphia, it was necessary to unite the settled parts of Chester, with the main road leading to the former city. The sharp angle existing in Edgmont avenue above Third street today, is the result of that change. The Queen´s Highway, as we now know it in Fifth street and Morton avenue, was not laid out until 1706. Previous to that date the road to the Quaker City was Twenty-fourth street, which crossed Chester creek at the ford, near the present covered bridge at Upland, and Ridley creek at Irving´s mills, where in early days the water was shallow. The Darby Highway Many of the people were dissatisfied with the present highway to Darby when first projected, and it was charged that Jasper Yeates, one of the Commissioners appointed to lay out the road, took it the present course that it might benefit his own and his father-in-law - Sandeland´s - ground. "God and nature," they declared, "intended the road to cross directly across the creek, but the devil and Jasper Yeates took it where it was located." Second street, or Filbert, as it was known in early times, was laid out by David Lloyd in 1698, a thirty-eight feet wide street extending from the creek to the plantation at Welsh streetfi recently known as the Porter estate, which he had purchased of Widow Laerson nine years before. These highways - Edgmont avenue to a short distance north of Third, and Second street, were in existence when Sandeland made the plan, and he was compelled to recognize them on the draft he submitted to William Penn on November 19, 1700.In the petition accompanying he stated that he was "possessed of a certain spot of land lying in the sd county of Chester verie fitt and naturally commodious for a town, and to that end" he had "lately caused ye sd spot of land to be divided and laid out into lotts, streets and market" a copy of which he produced. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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