This weeks History Mystery picture is in Aston Twp. by Mount Rd. It has already been identified by several readers. I would like to tank all of you for the help. Getting my collection properly identified means alot. It will help future historians etc. understand where this pictures was taken. I have been adding many "after" pictures to shop hot it looks now if it has changed alot.
NOTE: It is very hard to imagine today but what is called a highway today is far different different from what a highways was 101 years ago. In the article below todays Providence Rd. Rt.252 was made a state highway. At the time people were buying cars like crazy and demanding paved roads not only here but everywhere in Delco and in the U.S. The state and county was spending millions of dollars to get roads, created, paved etc.
CHESTER TIMES
December 29, 1922
PROPOSED NEW HIGHWAYS FOR DELAWARE COUNTY
Several additional state highways in the
county will be recommended by State Senator A. D. MacDade in bills he has
prepared for passage in the state legislature, which will be convened on
Tuesday next, one of which will be the taking over of Providence Road by the
state where the road approaches Chester at Shoemakerville Bridge thence through
the townships of Nether Providence and Lower Providence to the borough of
Media.
This will give to this city a state
highway direct to Media, the county seat, and be thereafter maintained and
repaired from time to time by the State Highway Department and thus lightening
the burden of maintenance from these townships.
The present roadway has been frequently
out of repair and only recently put into shape for travelers by the joint
action of the Keystone Automobile Club, the county commissioners. This improvement will be much appreciated by
the general public.
Another state highway advocated by the
senator will be one in Thornbury Township to join the state aid highway ending
at Thornton with the state highway from West Chester to Wilmington at Dilworthtown. This will prove of great benefit to the
citizens of Concord and Thornbury townships.
Another state highway in contemplation
will be from Linwood, in Lower Chichester township, where the Boothwyn
state-aid highway joins the Marcus Hook-Twin Oaks road to Village Green,
crossing the state highway there and which leads to Wilmington, thence, along
the Chester Creek road through Rockdale to Lima in Middletown township,
crossing two other state highways leading to Baltimore and West Chester to
Philadelphia.
This route will open up the farming and
residential districts in that part of Delaware County and the industrial towns
of Marcus Hook and Claymont and will prove to be another boon for Marcus Hook,
Linwood and Boothwyn, as the Boothwyn state aid road is proving to be to those
thriving and prosperous communities, and which latter route will be formally
thrown open to the public on Saturday next, when a monster parade will be held
in celebration of this great highway improvement.
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