Centuries-old Mile Marker Replaced in Wynnewood

An historic Lancaster Avenue mile marker near Lankenau Hospital in Wynnewood, more than two centuries old, has been replaced, the Main Line Times reports. 

The Milestone 5 marker was twice hit by vehicles recently, the paper said, virtually destroying it. A reproduction of the stone was installed last week.

"Our milestones are very accurately placed," Ted Goldsborough, of the Lower Merion Historical Society, told . "You can get in your car today and the odometer is right on."

The Lancaster Avenue stones were set in 1795 by landowner and farmer Joseph Price (a house he built in Narberth stills stands on Montgomery Avenue), Patch writer Brooke Hoffman reported. They were designed to tell the mileage as it counted down to the 30th Street Bridge in Center City, and most still stand (see accomppanying photos).

They are each carved with the miles and "M To P" for "miles to Philadelphia." The mile makers helped settlers find their way back to the city for supplies.