Category: Maps

Source: Google Earth with USGS topographic maps loaded as a layer. The video above offers insight into the name “Great Valley” and explains why the White Horse Tavern was strategically located in […]

    William Weightman is labeled as the owner.   We see the main house, the stone barn, and the pole barn (which was the Old Swedesford Rd Station building until around 1911).  […]

Let’s take a journey back in time to explore the fascinating history of Whiteland Township, its early roads, and the iconic White Horse Tavern. The story of Whiteland Township is one of […]

    John Swanenburg’s Estate is labeled as owner.   We see the main house, the stone barn, and the pole barn.

      1933 Altas, shows 4 buildings, one we know was destroyed when 202 was built.   John Swanenburg is labeled as the owner.   

  One of the most important atlases of the American Revolutionary War period. There are 22 maps on 29 sheets. The majority of the important large scale maps of the colonies are […]

Overlaying a map of Native American paths over a map of Chester County shows the “Allegheny Path” [path no. 1] passing directly behind the White Horse Tavern.  The path stretches from Philadelphia […]

  This map is probably drawn in 1777 or 1778.  It is not to scale but is meant to provide a timeline of events.  Red rectangles denote Howe’s column, which is placed […]

Reference to “White Horse Inn”. Library of Congress Digital Copy https://lccn.loc.gov/2012592159 Map of Chester County, Pennsylvania : from original surveys / by S.M. Painter & J.S. Bowen ; projection & drawing by […]

Peter Force’s catalog of manuscript maps. Alternate title from Philip Lee Phillips’ A list of maps of America, p. 699: Map showing the march of the British upon Philadelphia. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and […]

Real property map published by Kennedy, T. J. in 1860. Shows Tavern owner Adam Reitenbaugh (spelled as A. Reitenaugh and A. Rittenbough). Library of Congress Digital Copy https://lccn.loc.gov/2003627062 Kennedy, T. J. Map […]

Shows reference to the “White Horse Inn”. Library of Congress Digital Copy https://lccn.loc.gov/2012590186 Kennedy, T. J. Map of Chester County, Pennsylvania / corrected, embellished, and published by T.J. Kennedy, Westchester ; from […]

Seat of war in the environs of Philadelphia.  Published in the London Magazine 1777. Library of Congress Digital Copy https://lccn.loc.gov/gm71002457 Kitchin, Thomas, -1784. Seat of war in the environs of Philadelphia: By […]

Show owner’s name Kennison. Library of Congress Digital Copy https://lccn.loc.gov/74692506 Scull, Nicholas, 1686?-1761? To the Honourable Thomas Penn and Richard Penn, Esqrs., true & absolute proprietaries & Governours of the Province of […]

British camp at “Trudruffrin” from the 18th to the 21st of September 1777, with the attack made by Major General Grey against the rebels near White Horse Tavern on the 20th. of […]

Map showing White Horse, laid down from actual surveys and chiefly from the late map of W. Scull published in 1770; and humbly inscribed to the Honourable Thomas Penn and Richard Penn, […]

The map doesn’t show the White Horse, but it’s interesting to compare with future maps.  The property that becomes the White Horse Tavern is in or to the west of “The Welch […]