ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT: Located nine miles west of Philadelphia, the Township of Radnor, Pennsylvania, settled by Welsh farmers from Radnorshire, Wales during the 1680s, was called William Penn's "greene countty town". With this enhancement strategy, the Township sought to reimagine the past of its Quaker settlers by reinforcing the area's original design vocabulary of stone walls and milestones. The strategy listens to the spirit of the place, recovering the memory of the first Quaker settlers who came from the Neolithic landscapes of Radnorshire, Wales, recalling the surviving legacy of the 18th century turnpike milestones, and incorporating the iconography of the township's seal. It employs images of the seal's lion, griffm, tree, wheat sheaf, and conestoga wagon on markers, sound barrier walls, a bridge, an obelisk, even on a 90 x 100 foot panel of trap rock implanting the griffin at the exit slope of the new Blue Route.
