Around here we call it Lancaster Avenue or Route 30, but the road most traveled in Radnor is part of the Lincoln Highway, which you can travel from New York City to San Francisco.
The New York Times did just that in this photo gallery, stopping at Minella's Diner in Wayne along its route.
It's hard to imagine Lancaster Avenue as a toll road, let alone one as narrow and bumpy as it looks in the old photo above. In the foreground is the toll booth at the corner of Lancaster Avenue and Chamounix Road (where the Aberwyck Apartment building is today), according to Radnor Historical Society's Greg Prichard.
In the distance are the Wendell & Smith (the original developers of North and South Wayne) real estate sales office on the left, and St. Davids train station on the right, which was still being built when this picture was taken around 1890. The photograph was taken from a now long-gone house at the southwest corner of the intersection, according to Prichard.
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