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Mancill’s Mill, Media Water Works
Date: 1891-11
Photo taken on same day as AP-4126; see case and coat in foreground of each image. Photo Folder 5036 has prints, one of them dated Nov. 1891. The Media high railroad bridge Is in background.
Mancill Bridge, covered, over Ridley Creek
Date: 1891 (circa)
Photo taken on same day as AP-4121: see case and coat in foreground of each. See Photo Folder 5036 with prints of these negatives, one dated Nov. 1891.
Wawa railroad station
Date: 1892-05
This station once stood south of Route 1 along Chester Creek on west side of creek.
Middletown trees
Date: 1890 (circa)
Huge trees, with horse and buggy between the trees; Deborah Appleton, photographer's wife, is in the buggy
Water Works Media, old, mill only, copy of old photograph
Date: 1899-12-03
This possibly shows the Mancill Mill on the water works property. Frank Lees, in his caption for this image on Photo Folder 1374 in the MHAC collection, identifies it as: "Ice House, Palmer's Ice Co., at Palmer's Dam, Ridley Creek at Baltimore Pike,…
Middletown Presbyterian Church, interior
Date: 1900 (circa)
The small building pictured was remodeled and absorbed into the larger church and Sunday School complex now on this site.
Riddle's race
Date: 1894
The mill race is rejoining Chester Creek downstream of the Riddle’s Mill, near Glen Riddle. See AP-5183-2 for more information.
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.
Riddle's mills
Date: 1894
According to Henry S. Pearson, in Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pa. (1985), p. 120, this was originally a nail mill that Samuel Riddle converted to a textile mill after purchasing it in 1875. As late as 1983, the mill was occupied b the…
Mancill Bridge, covered
Date: 1895 (circa)
Baltimore Pike crossing Ridley Creek at Elwyn Road, showing covered bridge. Ridley Creek at this location is the boundary between Upper Providence and Middletown townships.
Crook’s house
Date: 1895-1900
Henry Pearson, in Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pa. (295), writes that the Pratt/Crooks house stood opposite Cumberland Cemetery on Middletown Road (Route 352).
Crook’s roadway, washed gully, close-up
Date: 1902-05-02
This may have been taken for a legal case related to the condition of the road, perhaps related to the ditch or drainage that seems to be the focus of this series of pictures, AP-8229-8231.
Crook’s roadway, washed gully, close-up
Date: 1902-05-02
This may have been taken for a legal case related to the condition of the road, perhaps related to the ditch or drainage that seems to be the focus of this series of pictures, AP-8229-8231.
Crook’s roadway, Wawa Road, wide view
Date: 1902-05-02
This may have been taken for a legal case related to the condition of the road, perhaps related to the ditch or drainage that seems to be the focus of this series of pictures, AP-8229-8231.
Wawa railroad bridge, south side over Chester Creek
Date: 1900 (circa)
Location is approximate. Bridge crossed Chester Creek; station stood south of Baltimore Pike near Station Rd. in Chester Heights, Pa.
Wawa railroad bridge, north side
Date: 1900 (circa)
Location is approximate. Bridge crossed Chester Creek; station stood south of Baltimore Pike near Station Rd. in Chester Heights, Pa.
Wawa railroad bridge, top
Date: 1900 (circa)
Location is approximate. Bridge crossed Chester Creek; station stood south of Baltimore Pike near Station Rd. in Chester Heights, Pa.
General Charles Lewis Leiper, cemetery monument
Date: 1900-09-28
Monument dedicated May 27, 1900 in the Middletown Presbyterian Church cemetery