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Title: The Pennsylvania railroad: its origin, construction, condition, and connections. Embracing historical, descriptive, and statistical notices of cities, towns, villages, stations, industries, and objects of interest on its various lines in Pennsylvania and New Jersey
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Sipes, William B., d. 1905 Pennsylvania Railroad. Passenger Dept
Subjects: Pennsylvania Railroad
Publisher: Philadelphia (Pennsylvania Railroad Co.) Passenger Dept.
Contributing Library: Northeastern University, Snell Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Northeastern University, Snell Library

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feet oflumber per day, employing over four hun-dred men. Osceola contains three churches,a public hall, a bank, good schools, andtwo hotels. Population, 813. (Junction ofMoshannon Branch Railroad, running toHoutzdale, distance six miles.) Dunbar, twenty-one miles. Steiners, twenty-three miles. Philipsburg, twenty-four miles, is inCentre county, and was founded in 1796,by Henry Phillips, of England, the eldestof three brothers who successively residedhere in charge of a large estate, and fromwhom the town takes its name. Emigrantswere brought from abroad to colonize theplace, and a screw factory, (said to be thefirst in the United States,) a forge, andnail factory established. These industrieswere too remote from the centres of tradeto prove profitable, and in time were aban-doned. The business of lumbering followed,and the dense pine forests covering the sur-rounding country have proved a source ofprosperity to the present time. To this busi-ness has been added, since the construction
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BLUE BALL—WALLACETON—BIGLER—WOODLAND, ETC. 211 of the railroad, coal-mining, and there are inoperation in the vicinity three coal-mines,employing about one hundred and fifty menand shipping annually two hundred thousandtons. The town contains two planing-mills,an extensive steam-tannery,a steam flour-mill,a foundry and machine-shop, and a numberof other industries. It has five churches,two public halls, a public library, two banks,good schools, and several hotels. Extensivedeposits of fire-clay exist in the vicinity.Population, 1086. (Junction of branchroad to Morrisdale, distance four miles.) Blue Ball, twenty-seven miles. Wallaceton, twenty-nine miles.—Asteam saw-mill is in operation here, and con-siderable lumbering is done in the vicinity.The village contains a public hall, and apopulation of about 160. BiGLER, thirty-two miles.—Squared tim-ber is manufactured here, and there is onechurch at the station. Woodland, thirty-four miles. Barrett, thirty-seven miles. Leonard,

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