On the 1872 county atlas map of the township the east end of what is now named Ridge Drive, in the south end, is called “Springdale.” 5 Other communities in the township are Carlisle Springs, Drytown, and the north half of Hickorytown. The mid-20th-century term “Miracle Mile” describes the businesses (motels, truck stops, restaurants, and a variety of other shops) lining the stretch of U.S. The creek confluence is situated, and all of these routes except the railroad intersect, at the village of Middlesex, where the Callender estate was centered, and has become a large nexus of transporting activity and warehousing, encroaching on the surrounding farmland which supported the local economy in the first two centuries after settlement. Route 11 (on the “Great Road,” opened in 1744), Interstate 81, the Pennsylvania Turnpike, and the old Cumberland Valley Railroad line now operated by Norfolk Southern. This township is traversed not only by the Conodoguinet Creek but by the Raystown Indian Path’s east section, 4 U.S. Robert Callender for his tract of 459 acres and 60 perches, patented March 20, 1773, on a warrant he had taken out March 8, 1768, located at the confluence of the Letort Spring with the Conodoguinet Creek. 2 “Middlesex” was the name selected by Col. Middlesex Township was created from eastern North Middleton by court order on November 25, 1859. 1 It lies within the section of West Pennsborough set up as Middleton Township in 1750 and divided into North and South Middleton in 1810. The township of Middlesex lies along the northerly half of the west side of the Stony (“Stoney”) Ridge, a geological trap dike (older than the North or South mountains) which formed the original boundary between the west and east divisions of Pennsborough Township (established in 1735) as early as 1740.
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