Identifier: suburbanstations00penn (find matches)
Title: Suburban stations and rural homes on the Pennsylvania Railroad
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Pennsylvania Railroad
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Publisher: Philadelphia, Office of the General Passenger Agent
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side—so close at some points that awall or fence is necessary to separate them—and thusthey continue until Paoli is reached. Nature appears tohave settled the engineering question of location here,as all the lines of communication between the east andwest, from the Indian trail to the Pennsylvania Rail-road, have passed over this same route. Looking northfrom the cars, as they pass along this stretch of eleva-tion, vistas of Chester valley can occasionally be seen,opening like pictures to the observer. PAOLI, Nineteen miles from the city. This is the point towhich the accommodation trains from Philadelphia arerun, and eight of these pass over the road each way perday. Beyond this station three accommodation trainsonly are run,—one to Parkersburg, one to Lancaster,and one to Harrisburg. Paoli is an old settlement, inthe midst of some beautiful scenery, at an elevation offive hundred and twenty-seven feet above tide. Pleasantgroves are here, and shady roads lead into the adjacent
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country, passing through quiet valleys and over gentlehills, where many scenes of beauty and interest can bediscovered. From a point immediately north of thestation, Valley Forge, on the Schuylkill, can be seen.Paoli was a noted point on the Lancaster turnpike beforerailroads were constructed, and, being a days journeyfrom the city, its tavern-yard was nightly crowded withConestoga wagons, and all kinds of vehicles engagedin transporting produce to and from Philadelphia.The old Lancaster road, opened and used in colonialtimes, on the line of the Indian trail connecting theDelaware and the Susquehanna, passed this station, and (36) RURAL HOMES. 37 it is probable that a tavern called after the heroic Cor-sican existed here then, as a portion of the presentPaoli inn was certainly built before the Revolutionary-war. Pasquale di Paoli, the celebrated Corsican gene-ral, was born in 1726, and at the age of twenty-nineyears was chosen general-in-chief of the Corsicans,who were in revolt again

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