History Spotlight
The Earliest Newtown Map of 1816 by Doug Humes Photos courtesy of the Newtown Square Historical Society
In 1816, the Pennsylvania legislature authorized mapmaker John Melish to make detailed county maps for Pennsylvania. What did he find notable enough to include on the Newtown map? The West Chester Stage Road runs east and west, and was the route of the stagecoach from West Philadelphia to Newtown and then to West Chester. The route passed the Fox Chase Tavern right after entering from Marple. The Newtown straight road ran from the south to the north, bisecting the township east and west. An early school sat across the straight road from where Gentile’s is now located. The Hunter and Mendenhall (Teca!) farms lay to the south. Newtown Square Quaker Meeting is marked QM, at the same location it has been since 1711. At the next intersection, Goshen Road bisects the township running from Darby Creek
The 1816 Melish Map of early Newtown Part of legend identifying the mapmaker
to Crum Creek. Further north, a road runs east to a saw mill on Darby Creek – the road that today we call Saw Mill Road. The last road to the north takes you to Old St. David’s Church, on St. David’s Road. On the way, it crosses what was then a new bridge, built with funds left in an 1810 will by Thomas Walsh to replace the ford at that location with a solid stone structure. It remains in place today.
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