License Petition for the Eagle Hotel

We the subscribers agents, of the Commonwealth on the Columbia & Philadelphia Railway, hereby certify that the stopping place known as the Spread Eagle Water Station, is required for the advantageous use of the Railway, at which a Hotel has lately been erected by Mifflin Lewis esquire, thereby forming a convenient point for the reception of Passengers, we therefore respectfully recommend the said Hotel to be licensed for the accommodation of Passengers on the Railway and the Public in general.

Lancaster Jan. 5th, 1836

Joseph Mother(?) supt.

N. K. Huffnagle P.A. Eng.