Glen Nor High School - Chieftain Yearbook (Glenolden, PA)

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GFFICIALLE' ifiteiffz Route 180 by the Pennsylvania Department of Highways, Chester Pike has been known una'er far more romantic and impressifoe n ames. At first it turned to royalty ancl was prouclly known as 'KThe Kingjs Roailf' ancl then the Queen's Roadf' When sovereign popularity cle- clined, the highway took the names of Philadel- phia, Wilmirigton, and Baltimore Post Road or Trurnpikef, Philadelphia and Wilmington Post Roaa',,' ancl Great Southern Post Road. The builcling of the plank roacl about 1850 was regarclecl by the community as a great public im- profvement, ancl won for it recognition as The Plank Roaclf, The popular boast of making H240 on the plank roaaw has passecl away with the worn out names of the thoroughfare. 1 ? l

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1916 'llhe Chester and liddystone Street Railway Company leased their rights to the Southern Pennsylvania '1'raction Company for a term of 990 years. In 1910 the Chester, Darby, and Philadelphia Street Railway Company had made the same agreement. 1923 'l'he title of ownership passed from the Chester and Darby Telford Road Company to the State of Pennsylvania. The sum paid for the franchise and physical property was 5100,000, of which the State and County each paid half. On bluly 25, 1921. the toll houses were abandoned, and 2111 informal celebration marked the passing of the old road company. 19254M1926 ln answer to agitations for improvement the Public Service Commission approved the project of removing the trolley tracks to the center of the highway. Delaware County paid S231,622g the State, 5336,-1935 and the trolley Company, approximately 8200.000-ct total of three quarters of a million dollars. 1934-1935 llpon the abandonment of the trolley line and the substitution of buses, the trolley strip was paved by the State in the winter of 1934-1935. From rm'm'd,r ,r11bnzilIfa7 by L1IIES'l'l'IR F. ll.-xxlclt. Delaware County Historical Society.

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