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Title: Suburban stations and rural homes on the Pennsylvania Railroad
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Pennsylvania Railroad
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Publisher: Philadelphia, Office of the General Passenger Agent
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ban aspect. The line of the oldColumbia Railroad is observed, sweeping on both sidesof the present track in its abandoned curves; and, froman embankment, over which the train passes immedi-ately on leaving the station, a lovely landscape opens,both to the south and north. WAYNE, Fourteen miles from the city. It would be difficult tofind anywhere a more attractive place than this, both asnature fashioned it and as art has adorned it. The stationof Wayne is situated on an estate of some six hundredacres, called ^ Louella. This embraces a wide expanseof rolling, fertile land, extending on both sides of therailroad for the distance of a mile, and fronting on theold Lancaster road and the Lancaster turnpike, withmany other avenues intersecting it in all directions.The general elevation of the place is about four hundredand fifty feet above tide, and the perfect drainage causedby its altitude renders it peculiarly healthful and pleasant.For several years improvements here have been steadily
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RURAL HOMES. 33 progressing, and now the estate embraces most of theconveniences, and many of the luxuries, of city life,added to the attractions of the country. A commodioushall, a pleasant church, a comfortable school-house, largestores, and a post office called Louella,—all, as wellas many of the dwellings, being lighted with gas andabundantly supplied with pure spring-water from largereservoirs,—are clustered around the beautiful stationbuildings, and make a picture of suburban elegance andcomfort lovely to look upon. Many residences have been erected here recently, andeach year sees the aggregate increased to meet the de-mand for them. A portion of the estate has been laidout in building-lots, which will be disposed of for theerection of suburban homes. Progress is written all overthe estate, and enterprise is seen on every part of it.That the location is destined soon to take a prominentrank among the most attractive suburbs of Philadelphia,may be considered a fixed fact of

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