Easttown Township near Paoli in Chester County, Pennsylvania — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)

Historic Waynesborough

Photographed by Frankie, May 9, 2010

1. Historic Waynesborough Marker

Inscription. Historic Waynesborough Birthplace and Ancestral Home of Major General Anthony Wayne 1745-1796

Topics. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: War, US Revolutionary.

Location. 40° 1.924′ N, 75° 28.362′ W. Marker is near Paoli, Pennsylvania, in Chester County. It is in Easttown Township. It is on Waynesborough Road. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 2049 Waynesborough Rd, Paoli PA 19301, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in Southeast Pennsylvania and in Greater Philadelphia.

It is also in the American Northeast

and in the Mid-Atlantic.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy,

New Netherland,

and one of the original Thirteen Colonies.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 3 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Gen. Anthony Wayne (approx. 0.7 miles away); The Paoli Inn (approx. one mile away); Site of Paoli Massacre

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(approx. 1.9 miles away); Rear of the Camp (approx. 2.2 miles away); “Remember Paoli!” (approx. 2.2 miles away); The Land on Which the Battle of Paoli was Fought (approx. 2.3 miles away); Camp Life (approx. 2.3 miles away); "Losing a wheel and crashing into a gap in the fence line"... (approx. 2.4 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Paoli.

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Photographed by Frankie, May 9, 2010

2. Waynesborough

Photographed by Frankie, May 9, 2010

3. Waynesborough

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4. Waynesborough

Photographed by Frankie, May 9, 2010

5. Waynesborough

Anthony Wayne image. Click for full size.

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6. Anthony Wayne

From Harpers' Popular Cyclopaedia of United States History by Benson John Lossing 1893, Vol. II, page 1497.

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