. The Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography . / o #1 ^^;V^. The Germantomi Road and its Associations. 381 a scene was afTorded me. I then fully realized the truthful-ness of their descriptions. Such scenes, on a smaller scale,however, annually occur on almost every farm in the two original lots, numbers 9 and 10, \vere at firstowned hy Dirck Kolck and Wygert Levering. Very soonJames De la Plaine appeared as the owner; together theycontained sixty-six and a quarter acres. Market Square wastaken from the western end of one of them. The house atthe IST. E. corner of the Germant
. The Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography . / o #1 ^^;V^. The Germantomi Road and its Associations. 381 a scene was afTorded me. I then fully realized the truthful-ness of their descriptions. Such scenes, on a smaller scale,however, annually occur on almost every farm in the two original lots, numbers 9 and 10, \vere at firstowned hy Dirck Kolck and Wygert Levering. Very soonJames De la Plaine appeared as the owner; together theycontained sixty-six and a quarter acres. Market Square wastaken from the western end of one of them. The house atthe IST. E. corner of the Germantown Road and School HouseLane, now No. 4801, has in late years heen altered to fit it forbusiness purposes. Many remember the strikingly antiqueand picturesque appearance it presented before tliese beautieswere so sadly marred. It is of stone, of two stories in height,but very low ones, and with a far-projecting belt-course orpent-house, dividing them,—the roof is hipped. It waserected at a very early time, but the year is uncertain, by,it can hardly be doubted,
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