Milestone 36 Missing - Last seen 1907
The milestone would be somewhere in the midst of Coatesville or Bridgetown as it was known in turnpike times. Measuring one mile from the 35 milestone would place it near Pennsylvania Avenue where the Midway Grill and Taproom is found on the South side of Route 30.
*Above banner image was taken in Coatesville at West end of town. Sitting at the intersection of Highway 82 and Route 30, on the north side of the intersection, you would look Southwest and see this. I found it somewhat symbolic of the Coatesville Steel Industry, the red sphere showing a multi-million dollar piece of technology for our military once created by Coatesville's Steel Mill Industry and in the background the broken windows of a closed steel mill today. This 27 ton sonarsphere once sat in the bow of a nuclear attack submarine. It was balanced out by the rest of the ship. It actually sat upright with the base being on the right end of the object pictured here. It has over 1200 hydroplanes inside which were part of a sonar detection system. In diameter this sphere is 15 feet by 15 feet by 21 feet.
http://www.prweb.com/printer/564760.htm Lukens colossal sonarsphere returns home
http://ww1.prweb.com/prfiles/2007/10/27/61329/sonarsphereinfactory.jpg Image of sonarsphere sonarsphereinfactory.jpg Image of sonarsphere I had to type in sonarsphere in the sites search engine to pull this up.
http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/08441.htm Images of the Turtle considered America's first submarine. It was 7 1/2 feet by 6 feet wide so about a third of the size of the Sonarsphere
http://www.history.navy.mil/library/online/sub_turtle.htm Replica image of the original Turtle submarine used by the American side in the Revolution
Blow-up of map in banner image
The Prussian Eagle is described as being on the East bank of the West branch of the Brandywine River by Sachse. This description may be a little misleading as it was a 1/4 mile to the East of the river. It was remodeled after 1860 and renamed Speakman's Hotel.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vintagehalloweencollector/3550775222
link to Color postcard of Speakman hotel - beautiful image !
http://www.graystonesociety.org/cityofcoatesville.htm
link to The second of four images on this site shows the Speakman house at upper right.
Blow-up of turnpike map just West of Highway 82 and Sonarsphere. Ignore the "P" references in the image. They refer to a hard copy of this project.
A map with the salmon colored stickpin showing the general location of missing Milestone 36