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Title: Down the eastern and up the Black Brandywine..
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: MacElree, Wilmer W., 1859-
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Publisher: (West Chester, Pa., F. S. Hickman, printer)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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O.N THK TriXK (IK THK OaK IS A ILAfAKD. Page 172. OSBORNES HILL. Whoever heard of Sconnelltown ? A village long ago,That on the heights of Bradford stood, With Brandywine below.They say it was a thriving place. When in its day of palm,Cornwallis lunched his army there, Marching to Birmingham. It was there the Quakers, drivenBy battles loud refrain.From their ancient house of worship, Came near the foe again ;And devoted to their service,Within their lowly walls,They silently awaited him. As Romans did the Gauls. Everhart—Sconnelltown. LITTLE west of an elevation known asMount Bradford, about midway betweenWest Chester and Lenape, lies Sconnell-town, once a flourishing village, but nowin our time consisting only of a wide-spreading oak, a Grangers hall, a mes-suage and lot recently referred to inCourt as a residential property, and acommon country school house with a reputation seared bylightning. What became of the villagers, or when they madetheir exodus, no one appears to know. Fo

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