Description: The winter scene of Waynesborough was taken by photographer Lucy Sampson around 1910. The Wayne family was among the earliest settlers of Easttown Township, with the arrival from Ireland in 1722 of Anthony Wayne. He and his family took residence on a tract of 386 acres in what we know today as “Historic Waynesborough.” A son added the first major section to the stone manor house around 1742, located southwest “within one mile of Paoli Inn near the 18th mile stone on the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike.” It was here that General Anthony Wayne (1745 - 1796) of Revolutionary War fame was born, and who much later added to the house. Though most of the original acreage was sold over the ensuing 2 centuries, the 10.3 acres on which the Manor House stands remained in possession of descendants of the Wayne family until purchased by Easttown Township in 1980. The house stands today on Waynesborough Road, across from what is now Waynesborough Country Club, as a public museum. - Herb Fry and Roger Thorne
