Five young men standing in the back of a wagon. Identified as Phares Shopf, Maurice Bleacher, H. Benedict, Ralph Urban, J. Bleacher. Taken at the Bleacher home near Highville, Pa.
Crowd gathered at railroad, possibly completion of Low Grade. From the New Era, 27 July 1906: Completion of Low Grade: The last spike in the construction of the Pennsylvania low-grade freight line was driven at a point about a mile east of Quarryville. Some 300 to 400 area residents turned out for the exercises that marked the last obstacle to opening the line. At one point during construction contractors had been compelled to blast through nearly 90 feet of solid rock. Work on the line, running from Attlen to Columbia had begun on March 3, 1903. After the last spike was driven, Miss Anna Acheson, daughter of J.R.L. Acheson, one of the assistant superintendents of constrution, broke a bottle of champagne over the rail and proclaimed: "I dedicate this enterprise to the uses of humanity and to the glorification and development of God's chosen county -- the lower end of Lancaster County."
