The General Jackson Inn near Mile Post 18, Paoli, 1888
Description: Looking northeast where the then-Lancaster Pike intersects with Chestnut Road, the 18th mile marker (from Philadelphia) in Paoli can be seen in the foreground on the north side of the Pike. To the immediate east is the General Jackson Inn, a well-run stage coach inn during the early 19th century originally owned by Randall Evans, a brother of Joshua Evans who ran the Paoli Inn just a few blocks west. Tradition tells us that the two brothers frequently fought as would find the other interfering with his regular customers. Much later, during the 1930s, the building became known as the Windmill Tea Room. In 2014 the Jiffy Lube building stands approximately where the Jackson Inn stood. - Herb Fry and Roger Thorne
References: General Jackson Inn & Windmill Tea Room, Then ... & Now, TEQ 41-4 (Fall 2004); The General Jackson Inn by S. Paul Teamer, TEQ 1-4 (July 1938); The Wayside Inns on the Lancaster Roadside between Philadelphia and Lancaster, by Julius F. Sachse, Self published, 1915 (2nd Edition); The Early History of Paoli by Mike Bertram, TEQ 51, #1 (April 2014)
Contributor: Digitized by Roger Thorne
Notes: Herb and Barbara Fry Collection. This image replaces GJI1, which has been retired.
