Identifier: pennsylvaniarail00sipe (find matches)
Title: The Pennsylvania railroad : its origin, construction, condition, and connections ; embracing historical, descriptive, and statistical notices of cities, towns, villages, stations, industries, and objects of interest on its various lines in Pennsylvania and New Jersey
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Sipes, William B., d. 1905 Pennsylvania Railroad. Passenger Dept Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Pennsylvania Railroad
Publisher: Philadelphia : (Pennsylvania Railroad Co.) The Passenger Dept.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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lasses, Jews-harps, etc., of the possibleaggregate value of five hundred dollars. The Indians then settled in the territoryembraced in Chester county were of theLenni Lenape, and possessed the sameamiable peculiarities described in the sketchof Philadelphia. They rapidly dwindledaway before the white settlers, and the lastone known in the county died in the poor-house in 1803. The early settlers of the county embracedEnglish, Irish, Welsh, and German emi-grants, who settled in different sections, andfor some years preserved their national pe-culiarities and language; but previous to theRevolutionary war these were, to a greatextent, lost, and they had become onepeople. Many of the residents were thenwealthy, and in intelligence and comfort theywere second to no community in colonialAmerica. At the commencement of the RevolutionChester county raised a regiment of volun-teers, of which Anthony Wayne was colonel.A second regiment was soon after raisedin this county and Lanc;i,ster. Wayne
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REESEVILLE—PAOLI. 85 entered the regular service and recruitedmany men in the county for his celebratedbrigade of Pennsylvania Blues. Patriot-ism was the predominating attribute of thecounty during the long struggle, and noteven the unfortunate day at Brandywine, northe bloody night at Paoli, could dismay it.Its rich valleys furnished most of the sup-plies for the American army vi^hen operat-ing in the vicinity of Philadelphia, andin the great Chester valley Washingtonestablished his barracks for the sick andwounded. These were at the Yellow Springs,about eight miles from the line of the Penn-sylvania Railroad, where now is located asoldiers orphans school. Chester county embraces every varietyof soil, from the barren sandstone forma-tion to the richest limestone valleys. TheGreat Valley, of primitive limestone,forms the most distinguishing feature of thecounty. This valley is from two to fourmiles wide, and crosses the county in asouth-east and north-west direction. It isshut in by

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