Fox hunting in Delaware County, Pennsylvania : and, origin and history of the Rose Tree Fox Hunting Club . rs death under the able manage-ment of her daughter, Mrs. Green, who exhibits allthe skill and ability of her mother. The memory ofMrs. Rogers will ever be dear to the members ofthe club, and the respect and love they bear it willbe lasting. As the old Rose Tree Inn is so thoroughlyidentified with the club, it may be interesting togive some insight into the history of it. Thepresent stone eastern end of the old house wasstanding, we have good authority for saying, asfar back as 1796, and
Fox hunting in Delaware County, Pennsylvania : and, origin and history of the Rose Tree Fox Hunting Club . rs death under the able manage-ment of her daughter, Mrs. Green, who exhibits allthe skill and ability of her mother. The memory ofMrs. Rogers will ever be dear to the members ofthe club, and the respect and love they bear it willbe lasting. As the old Rose Tree Inn is so thoroughlyidentified with the club, it may be interesting togive some insight into the history of it. Thepresent stone eastern end of the old house wasstanding, we have good authority for saying, asfar back as 1796, and perhaps much earlier, as itslocation is on one of the old leading highways ofthe county, which was laid out and opened bythe Commissioners of William Penn. Attachedto the western end of this old stone house for manyyears was a frame addition, which was removed in1837, and the present stone western end was builtby George Cummins, the then owner and landlord;his widow, Mrs. Matilda Cummins, keeping thehouse after his death for many years; and in hertime it was celebrated for its sleighing parties, as it. FOX HUNTING. 51 perhaps had been for years before, it being one ofseveral taverns of the county which kept openhouse, as it was called, during the winter months,for sleighing parties, and where music was fur-nished for dancing, as well as good hot other open houses for these jolly parties beingthe President, on the West Chester road; the Startavern, on the street road; Stamps tavern, on theWest Chester and Wilmington road; the SevenStars tavern, at Village Green, and the PracticalFarmer tavern, below Marcus Hook, on the Wil-mington road, just over the Delaware State was not unusual for some of the hunters, aswell as other young men, to take the entire roundof these houses on the same night, in J. HowardLewis large four-horse sleigh, and to dance ateach, as there were always plenty of prettycountry girls ready and willing to enjoy thecountry dances. George Cumm
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