Valley Girl Views: Milton, Pennsylvania

A Birds Eye View Of Milton (Possibly 1909)

When I started with my genealogy research more than 25 years ago, I made a habit of saving local information and photos about the local towns that I found interesting, or that could possibly connect to our genealogy. Today, I have folders for each local town saved on my computer, with all sorts of photos and stories and random tidbits. It's not very well organized, so it will take me some time to sort it all out and put it online, but here is what I have so far for Milton:

Early Milton
Fort Boone The Canal Baker Grist Mill Straub's Mill
When The Milton Bridge Was A Covered Bridge
The 1880 Great Fire - When The Entire Town Burned Down

How Turbut Township Got Its Name

Assorted Milton Business Directories

Ripped From The Headlines

Milton Silk Mill Worker Seeks $10,000 Husband
Murder In Milton - The Chalfont House

Murder In Milton - The Boarding House Murder
When The Miltonian Gave Away A Buick

When Gehrig Lost A Bet & Had To Carry 25lbs of flour from Milton To Northumberland

Milton's Bathing Suit Bandit Captured While Sleeping In A Canoe
Eccentric Match Peddler Found Dead In Ranglers Grove

Wilkes Barre's "Millionaire For A Day" Presents Statue to Milton

The Wrestling Match Riot, 1911

Bailey's Perilous Unplanned Float From Jersey Shore to Milton, 1832

Walking Through The Decades
("Then & Now" Photos of the town)

South Front Street Through The Decades Broadway Through The Decades
The Milton Realty Block 1880-2020
Galbraith News Stand - Broadway News
The Growth Of Milton, Shown In Pictures 1925

Assorted Milton Business Directories

The Art Deco Post Office

Milton Industries
The Car Works The Tobacco Co Milton Manufacturing

From Silk Mill to Shoe Factory The Milton Brick Co

Custers (Later Rhoads) Flour Mill

Dakin Knitting Mill Susquehanna Silk Mill

Various Milton Business Directories

Seidel & Spangler Store Riley's Tin Shop

Milton Brewery Bly Brothers Electrologists

The Art Deco Post Office Krausers Block

The Milton Social Scene

The Elks

When Mark Twain Visited Milton

The Wide Awake Clubs (with torches & capes) that supported Abraham Lincoln

The Motion Picture Contest in Milton in 1909

Lionel Legares Spiral Tower At Riverside Park

The Capitol Movie Theater In Milton

From the Red Arrow To The Arrowhead

Aunksts - The Trolley Car Diner

The Milton Drive In Movie Theater

Transportation

The Canal The Trolley The Train Station The Milton Airport

The Trolley Car Diner In Milton

When the Flying Farmers Landed In Milton
The Bridges Of Milton
The Milton Model Train Museum

When The Liberty Bell Traveled Through The Valley

The 1902 Train Wreck In Milton

Riverside Park - Milton's Amusement Park

The Parks

Riverside Park Montgomery (Island) Park
The Blue Spruce Tourist Camp

The Milton Fair

A Time Line Of The Milton Fair 1830-1926
Auto Racing At The Milton Fairgrounds
Wilkes Barre Millionaire For A Day Presents Statue To Milton

The Floods

1817 1889 1936 1946 1960 1964 1972 1993 1996 2004 2011

A YouTube Video Of The 1972 Flood

The Bridges Of Milton Pa

The Fires

The 1880 Great Fire - When The Entire Town Burned Down

1922

A Partial History Of the Milton Fire Companies

Historic Homes & Buildings

The Hotel Haag The Hilgert Home (By Spangler Motors)
The Hetherington House Murder In Milton - The Chalfont House

Notable Residents Of Milton, Pa

James Pollock, Pennsylvania Governor

The Stone Carved by James Pollock

The Poetress Of The Confederacy Was Born In Milton Pa

When P.T. Barnum Got His Start With A Local Showman - Hugh Lindsay

Milton Schools

Washington School Pollock School Grant School

One Room Schools:

Follmer Paradise Muddy Run

Churches

The Bethany UM Church Fire 2019

Maps

Sanborn Fire Maps

1884 1890 1896 1901 1906 1913 1918

Milton Canal Map Also Book 44 N. 6 - Not online

Fowlers Panoramic Maps North'd County 1858 North'd County 1874

Clipped from a Local History Book - But I failed to save the name on the file. Possibly from a Columbia County Book, based on where it was saved in my files.