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sign - Lancaster Avenue welcome sign - Lancaster Avenue
offices at the Old Wayne Library offices at the Old Wayne Library
Anthony Wayne Theater Anthony Wayne
Theater
Wayne Presbyterian Church Wayne
Presbyterian Church
Wayne Hotel Wayne Hotel
St. Mary's Episcopal Church St. Mary's
Episcopal Church
shops on Lancaster Avenue shops on
Lancaster Avenue
The Wayne Title and Trust Company The Wayne Title
& Trust Company
 



Wayne
History

  
   Wayne was first developed in 1870. A few years before that, J. Henry Askin built a mansion, called Louella, on Lancaster Avenue. Then construction started on the Opera House, the Presbyterian Church and a small community. Askin had plans for Wayne in 1870, but eventually he went blind and then came the financial depression in 1873. He ended up selling his land to Anthony J. Drexel and George W. Childs, who were the banker and publisher that planned to build a huge community out of Askin's holdings. In 1880, Drexel and Childs started their plan with the building of the Bellevue Hotel. Construction began in 1885 on North Wayne Avenue of the new development of New Wayne. At first, small cottages were built, and then construction spread throughout the neighborhood.
 
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