The New York Times wrote, in 2013 – The crossing is officially a ford, with a concrete slab covering the stream bottom so a car can plunge through without digging ruts or sinking into the mire. Depending on the season and the weather, the water is a few inches to a foot or so deep, but road builders of an earlier era lacked the money to build a bridge. In recent years every time a bridge proposal has surfaced, citizens have risen up in opposition.
A hundred and something years ago, a fashionable Main Line couple in their chauffeur-driven, locally manufactured (Autocar) vehicle go splashing through the ford on Old Gulph Road.