Pequea #4
Prior to the construction of the Pennsylvania Railroad only Henry Leaman's small farmhouse stood near here. In 1835, Mr. Leaman built a hotel and soon after a railroad station was established. A small village gradually sprung up and by the 1880s "Leaman Place" consisted of about a dozen houses, a telegraph office, and a common school. In 1845 inhabitants of Paradise and Leacock petitioned for a bridge "where the public highway leading from the Philadelphia & Columbia railroad to New Holland crosses said creek, at Eckert's Mill..." James C. Carpenter built the first bridge here in 1845 for $983.00. A half century later this bridge was reported unsafe, frequently overflowed, and was dangerous for public travel. Elias McMellen rebuilt the worn bridge in 1893 for $2,431.00. This bridge was also known as Eshleman's Mill Bridge after the Eshleman family that operated mills adjacent to here. Milton B. Eshleman ran a large three story mill near this bridge in the 1870s once known as Evergreen Mills.| HM Number | HM2AY5 |
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| Tags | |
| Placed By | Lancaster County Commissioners & Lancaster Bicycle Club |
| Marker Condition | No reports yet |
| Date Added | Thursday, August 30th, 2018 at 2:01pm PDT -07:00 |
| UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 18T E 405455 N 4429674 |
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| Decimal Degrees | 40.01198333, -76.10778333 |
| Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 40° 0.719', W 76° 6.467' |
| Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 40° 0' 43.14" N, 76° 6' 28.02" W |
| Driving Directions | Google Maps |
| Area Code(s) | 717 |
| Which side of the road? | Marker is on the right when traveling North |
| Closest Postal Address | At or near 81 N Belmont Rd, Paradise PA 17562, US |
| Alternative Maps | Google Maps, MapQuest, Bing Maps, Yahoo Maps, MSR Maps, OpenCycleMap, MyTopo Maps, OpenStreetMap |
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