Wayne's development began when a railroad stop called Cleaver's Landing was established. It was renamed Wayne Station after General Anthony Wayne. Parcels in the area totaling 293 acres (1.19 km2) were bought by banker J.H. Askin, where he built a mansion named "Louella" after his daughters Louisa and Ella. "Louella" was described as an 80-room stone building with a large porch overlooking manicured lawn. His and surrounding land were bought in 1880 by banker A.J. Drexel and newspaper editor G.W. Childs, to form a larger development they called Wayne Estate. More homes and a hotel were then built. In a brochure from 1887 about their development they noted they had provided Wayne with "water, light and drainage—the three great conveniences of a large city—by the most approved modern methods." They described Wayne Estate as follows:
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History of Wayne, Pike, and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania1886 · page 966Read the page →
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Lackawaxen township was erected in 1798, after Wayne County was set off from Northampton. It is the northern township of Pike County, and is bounded on the northwest by Wayne County, on the northeast by Delaware River and New York, on the southeast by Shohola and on the south and southwest by Blooming Grove and Palmyra. It is named
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History of Wayne, Pike, and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania1886 · page 123Read the page →
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By the erection of Pike County in 1814 about nine -square miles of the northwestern part of Lackawaxen township was left in Wayne County. This part was subsequently added to Dyberry township. Its territory has since been greatly diminished by the erection of the borough of Bethany in 1821, the township of Berlin in 1826, the township of Clinton in
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Commemorative biographical record of northeastern Pennsylvania1900 · page 859Read the page →
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with his brother Howard he has continued to engage in this line up to the present day, for the most part on public buildings and improvements, in Wayne county and the surrounding countrv. His genius in his particular branch is unquestioned, and he is a fine draftsman, especially of arches and bridge architecture, being at present engaged on the plans of the Honesdale bridge, a structure
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Commemorative biographical record of northeastern Pennsylvania1900 · page 1626Read the page →
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both natives of Pennsylvania, the former born near Philadelphia, in 1802, the latter in Wayne county, in 1807. The father, who was a sawyer by trade, was among the first settlers of Wayne county, where he continued to make his home until 1850, when he emigrated to Goodhue county, Minn., dying there in 1889. His last years were spent in farming, and his ballot was always cast with the Democ-
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Wayne, 1875 to 1998
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