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Logging in the Pennsylvania north woods : a collection of turn of the century photographs

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Author
Horst, Melvin.
Date of Publication
1969.
Call Number
634.982 L832
Responsibility
reproduced by Mel Horst and compiled and edited by Elmer L. Smith.
Author
Horst, Melvin.
Place of Publication
Lebanon, Pa
Publisher
Applied Arts,
Date of Publication
1969.
Physical Description
42 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Notes
"A pictorial presentation of the period when Penn's Woods was our nation's leading lumbering state"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects
Logging - Pennsylvania
Logging railroads - Pennsylvania
Conservation of natural resources - Pennsylvania
Lumbering - Pennsylvania
Additional Author
Smith, Elmer Lewis.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
634.982 L832
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Author
Wright, Samuel.
Date of Publication
1914
: Paradise, O Paradise / by Samuel Wright. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Mifflin, Samuel W. (Samuel Wright), 1805-1885. Scott, Joshua. Columbia-Philadelphia Railroad. Railroads--Pennsylvania. Logging--Pennsylvania. Paradise (Lancaster County, Pa.) Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical
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Responsibility
by Samuel Wright.
Author
Wright, Samuel.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1914
Physical Description
42-51 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 18, no. 2
Summary
A narrative beginning with the building of the Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad and how it passed near Paradise, PA. The author then describes the timber industry and how the timber from northern Pennsylvania was brought by river and canal to Marietta ,Columbia , and further south.
Subjects
Mifflin, Samuel W. - 1805-1885.
Scott, Joshua.
Columbia-Philadelphia Railroad.
Railroads - Pennsylvania.
Logging - Pennsylvania.
Paradise (Lancaster County, Pa.)
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 18, number 2 (1914), p. 42-51Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.18
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