Milestone 52 Missing - was there in 1952 but has since slipped away. a house of undetermined age sits about where the stone should be. A much better landmark is the red bricked Paradise School which sits just to the East. That's it on the right of the photo below. *Lazy Summer Days Two Above banner images were taken at Struble Trail, Downingtown, PA. The Butterflies were shot on a Butterfly bush at Church Farm School once lovingly maintained by Beth Ballinger.
Link to Map of Struble Trail http://dsf.chesco.org/ccparks/lib/ccparks/trails/struble_trail_public_map.pdf
Link to Friends of the Struble Trail website
Between the 52 and 53 Milestones was a tavern on the south side of the Pike. A citizen in a 1796 journal entry writes "At Reynell's we dined and afterwords stopped at Witmer's Bridge." The Reynell's mentioned is probably William Reynolds as in the William Reynolds Tavern. It was also known as The Sign of the Indian King (1806), The Practical Farmer (1813) and later The Plow and Anchor. The Plow was kept for many years by John Reynolds, an ancestor of John F. Reynolds of Gettysburg Battle fame. Later the Tavern became a private residence known as Leaman Place as a Mary Leaman lived there. The building sketched here is based on the photograph by L.C. Pierce. I couldn't locate it, but it may still stand hidden under a remodeling job or somewhere other than where I looked. I suspect it may have been lost when an overpass on that stretch of road was added.
A Terrain map with the salmon colored stickpin showing the general location of Milestone 52