Editing Philadelphia Main Line (section)

===17th and 18th centuries===
[[File:Wayne-Station-Pennsylvania-08.27.2010.jpg|thumb|[[Wayne (SEPTA station)|Wayne Station]] on SEPTA's [[Paoli/Thorndale Line]] after renovations in 2010]]
The Main Line region was long part of [[Lenapehoking]], the homeland of the [[Matrilineality|matrilineal]] [[Lenape]] [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]] (the "true people", or "Delaware Indians"). Europeans [[European colonization of the Americas|arrived]] in the 1600s, after [[William Penn]] sold a tract of land, called the [[Welsh Tract]], to a group of [[Welsh people|Welsh]] [[Quakers]] in [[London]] in 1681. This accounts for the many Welsh place names in the area.<ref>{{cite book| title=Overbrook Farms. Its historical background, growth and community life |first=Tello J. |last=D'Apéry| publisher= Magee Press| location=Philadelphia| year=1936| page=4| url=http://www.phillyh2o.org/backpages/PDFs_Misc/OverbrookFarms_Apery_1936.pdf#page=23}}</ref>  However, what might be termed the "Celtification" of many Main Line place and street names occurred long after colonial times. So, for instance, as a marketing device to attract wealthy new residents, the area once awkwardly named Athensville became the more culturally glamorous [[Ardmore, Pennsylvania|Ardmore]] ([[Ardmore (disambiguation)|Ardmore]] is a place name found in Ireland and Scotland) in 1873.