Conestoga Road Keystone Marker

This snowy scene of Conestoga Road at Wayne's "5 Points" intersection has a hidden piece of history: one of Wayne's 1920s-era Keystone Markers. The marker was located here as it was considered a major entry point to the downtown area on a state road (Conestoga Road was then part of Route 301).

Wayne had six of these markers originally (see the photos from the last two weeks and ), and two remain, including this one, except it is no longer in its original location. Hit by a car and lost in a ditch decades ago, it was re-discovered by a St. Davids resident who fixed it up and re-installed it more prominently in the center of town in 2002 (as seen in the inset).

The marker shown in the historic photograph is now found on Lancaster Avenue in front of the AT&T building. A group called the Keystone Marker Trust (www.keystonemarkertrust.org) was recently formed to restore and reproduce Pennsylvania's keystone markers, so we may see a marker on Conestoga Road again in the future.

- Greg Prichard,