Description: This is the one of four images all taken from the very same place in Berwyn. Looking west toward Paoli from the west side of Berwyn, Lucy Sampson set her tripod in the middle of Paoli Road (what is today Lancaster Avenue) at a point immediately west of where Leopard Road guides off to the southwest. Because the Old Lancaster Turnpike was on the other side of the railroad tracks. In 1909, the approximate year of this image, the principal route to Paoli was the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Paoli Road, which crossed the PRR tracks over the “Upper Bridge” and continued westward on the north side of the tracks. Paoli Road provided an alternate, and undoubtedly quieter, route west toward Paoli. But later this roadbed would became the route for the Lincoln Highway … today’s Route 30. At least two of the houses on the north side of Paoli Road stand today. The first, 1029 Old Lancaster Road, Berwyn, is in 2014 a consignment store called Yesterdays On The Main Line. The adjacent house, 1033 Lancaster Ave, is in 2014 the home of Malvern Kitchen and Bath. On the far right of the image can be seen a small portion of the Pennsylvania Railroad right-of-way, and the telegraph lines that stretched along the PRR tracks. - Herb Fry and Roger Thorne
