The German sectarians of Pennsylvania : a critical and legendary history of the Ephrata Cloister and the Dunkers . ouse. Upon the opposite side of theturnpike we have an old mile-stone, setwhen the Horseshoe pike was first lo-cated. It bears the following legend : 29 To To P. To the unin-itiated these letters are something of apuzzle, especially when told that theupper characters mean 29 miles toDowningtown ! an incident which has Ancient Mile-Stonk on *^ THE Horseshoe Pike. \,^^-^ Scized UpOU aud brought OUt With avidity by ignorant and biased writers whenever they wishto say anything a
The German sectarians of Pennsylvania : a critical and legendary history of the Ephrata Cloister and the Dunkers . ouse. Upon the opposite side of theturnpike we have an old mile-stone, setwhen the Horseshoe pike was first lo-cated. It bears the following legend : 29 To To P. To the unin-itiated these letters are something of apuzzle, especially when told that theupper characters mean 29 miles toDowningtown ! an incident which has Ancient Mile-Stonk on *^ THE Horseshoe Pike. \,^^-^ Scized UpOU aud brought OUt With avidity by ignorant and biased writers whenever they wishto say anything against the intellectuality of the Pennsly-vania-German. More than one writer has made merry over the Pennsyl-vania-Dutch who, according to him, publish their ignoranceto the world on their mile-stones by spelling Downingtownwith a T. Now, the fact of the matter is that the shoe is upon theother foot; the T does not stand for Downingtown, butfor turnpike. It will be recollected that the turnpike be-tween Philadelphia and Lancaster was the first hard roadin the United States, and was for years alluded to as the. The German Sectarians of Pennsylvania. Turnpike, and our road led from this turnpike to theSusquehanna. Incidentally it may be mentioned that theconstruction of this great highway proceeded chiefly fromthese same Pennsylvania-Dutch, who, with some modernwould-be historians, are continually held up as examplesof ignorance and boorish stupidity. Upon the right-hand side of the road as we journey west,just above the ancient mile-stone, there stands an old stonehouse dating back perhaps to colonial days. Just above ita large brick house faces the road, from which it is nowseparated by an ornamental fence. This building in formerdays, when the horn of the stage-driver and the crack ofthe teamsters whip were familiar music throughout theland, was a public house, where cheer was dispensed toman and beast. The tablet bears the legend : build by DANIEL BAUMAN & SALLY his WIFE 1819
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