. Down the eastern and up the Black . 1, a petition was presented to theCourt of Chester County alleging greatinconvenience for the want of a bridgeacross the Brandy-wine Creek at GeorgeEvanss Mill, said creek at that placebeing confined within a narrow andvery rocky channel, frequently risingto enormous heights, which, added to the rapidity of the current,defies the efforts of the boldest travellers, as well as the mostventuresome neighbors, entirely cutting off all communicationbetween the east and west banks thereof. The writer of thispetition was no ordinary scrivener, nor leg
. Down the eastern and up the Black . 1, a petition was presented to theCourt of Chester County alleging greatinconvenience for the want of a bridgeacross the Brandy-wine Creek at GeorgeEvanss Mill, said creek at that placebeing confined within a narrow andvery rocky channel, frequently risingto enormous heights, which, added to the rapidity of the current,defies the efforts of the boldest travellers, as well as the mostventuresome neighbors, entirely cutting off all communicationbetween the east and west banks thereof. The writer of thispetition was no ordinary scrivener, nor legal pedant, nor techni-cal adherent to old and outworn forms. A part of the descrip-tion reads strangely like a page from Scotts Fair Maid ofPerth—apart of it resembles Fouques sketch of the swollenriver in Undine. The rocks and the rushing stream are here,and it requires little fancy to hear the pine stems falling, andmark the tall man in white, grinning and nodding on the oppositeshore. Near the mill, stand the petitioners, fearful for Un- 6i]. dine, but lacking in courage, anxiously waiting for the daunt-less Hulbrand to come and cross the whirling current. We seeall this and more to-day; the viewers saw it a half centuryago, the grand jury also, but the prosaic Court saw nothing ofit, they saw only an omission on the part of the viewers to re-port that the expense of erecting the bridge was too great forthe township to bear, and rejected the petition. In 1848, George Evanss mill became the property of JamesMoore, and the Village of Glen Moore sprang up. A passengertraveling northward on the Waynesburg railroad who cares to view a point in the course of the*--2^~-~^j^;,:^7r^ -^ Brandy wine where its waters once de-fied the efforts of the boldest travelers to cross them, has but to look out ofthe car window when the conductorcalls Glen Moore, and keep his eyesupon the stream until the train passesthe upper end of the village. In 1852, West Nantmeal was divided and a new
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