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Wind Mill on Hart Farm, Ridley Creek Road
Date: Unknown
This may be a copy of a postcard. More information on this image would be welcomed.
Unknown road and trolley tracks
Address: Not Known
Date: 1900-1908
Possibly photographed for a legal case involving a trolley accident. Farm buildings and dwellings in background, and large house behind telephone pole on left, and what seem to be many smokestacks in far distance.
Sloan’s barn under construction, Baltimore Pike east of Beatty Road
Date: 1899-12-27
This looks like the barn could have been under reconstruction after a fire. 1892 Media map shows the M. W. Sloan estate at this location.
Sharpless, long distance view.
Address: Not Known
Date: 1889 (circa)
John Sharpless was murdered in his stable in 1885. The case dragged on until 1889, and was the most sensational in Delaware County history up to that point. These may be Appleton's retrospective photos of the scene of the crime.
Sharpless stable, interior
Address: Not Known
Date: 1889 (circa)
John Sharpless was murdered in his stable in 1885. The case dragged on until 1889, and was the most sensational in Delaware County history up to that point. These may be Appleton's retrospective photos of the scene of the crime.
Sharpless barn
Address: Not Known
Date: 1889 (circa)
John Sharpless was murdered in the stable on his farm in 1885. he case dragged on until 1889, and was the most sensational in Delaware County history up to that point. These may be Appleton's retrospective photos of the scene of the crime. Shows…
Railroad bridge no. 25 Chadd's Ford top
Address: Not Known
Date: 1902-04-04
Chadd's Ford Junction visible in background, and many other buildings. This is probably looking west across Brandywine Creek.
Ogden homestead
Date: 1890-1900
On the northwest corner of the intersection noted below, this house is still standing (2018). Henry Pearson, in Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pa. (286), claims that part of the house was built in 1681.
Newtown Telephone Station
Address: Not Known
Date: 1900 (circa)
Date stone on building reads 1897. Sign on striped barber pole reads: To V. E. Dewees, Barber.
Mendenhall farm
Address: Not Known
Date: 1902-03-02
Farm field with rutted track leading to farm buildings and farm house in distance
Media high railroad bridge
Date: 1903-11-01
View looking south from bridge showing Water Works, covered bridge at Baltimore Pike and view up the Ridley Creek valley. A trolley line crosses the creek in front of the covered bridge.
Lindsay ruins
Address: Not Known
Date: 1890-1900
Rubble in a field; looks to be the ruins of a barn; another building is visible in the nearby woods.
Elkview railroad bridge, top
Location: Lower Oxford (Pa. : Township)
Date: 1900 (circa)
"The 853-foot long Elkview Trestle built in 1897 still carries trains. The bridge is located on the former PRR Octoraro Branch which once connected Chester, Pa with the Susquehanna River above Port Deposit." Source:…
Elkview railroad bridge, Painters at
Location: Lower Oxford (Pa. : Township)
Date: 1900 (circa)
Includes farm landscape behind the workmen.