On Sunday May 18 1947, a Brunner-Winkle Bird Biplane & a Piper Cub J3 were smashed by a mini cyclone at the Selinsgrove Airport.
The division connected to the Eastern Division across the river at Clark's Ferry, the Juniata Division at the Amity Hall Basin, and the West Branch and the North Branch Canals at Northumberland.
The engineers who designed and built the Susquehanna Division included: Simeon Guilford, Hother Hage, with canal office at Liverpool, Francis W. Rawle, and A .B. Waterford. Work began in 1827 and was completed in 1831. This division had 12 locks (90 feet x 17 feet) raising the canal boats 86 feet from the Clark's Ferry slack water pool to the Northumberland Basin. It formed an important link between the southern canal divisions and the canal divisions in the northern part of the state.
Today, this canal is covered by or closely followed by US 22 and US 11. At Clark's Ferry, the outlet lock was just downstream of the west end of the present US 22 bridge. Proceeding west, US 22 is on the canal to about halfway west on Duncan's Island. At that point, the highway and canal routes separate with the canal following the tree line that is south of the highway. At the separation, Raisners's Lock is intact behind the house and buildings south of the highway. At the junction between US 22 and US 11, the junction basin and Lock 1 of the Juniata Division are intact in the woods on the southwest side of the interchange. Proceeding north on US 11, the highway is generally on top of the canal with prism occasionally visible. The prism is somewhat east of the highway at the road to the Millersburg Ferry. At Mahantango Creek, the canal is somewhat west of the highway and the lock (south of the creek) and aqueduct ruins are in the woods. Some sections of intact canal are visible north of here. "
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Susquehanna Division, Pennsylvania
The Susquehanna Division of the Pennsylvania Canal goes from Duncan’s Island on the west bank of the Susquehanna River to Northumberland, where the two large branches of that stream unite, as do the two canals that run along them. The length of the Susquehanna Division is 39 miles. Its fall is 86½, and there are 12 locks. The division is 43 feet wide at the water surface and 4½ feet deep. Its lock chambers are 90 feet long and 17 feet wide. It was completed in 1831 at a cost of $1,039,257.
Traffic on the canal remains very small and is not nearly sufficient to cover the annual costs of maintenance. The same applies more or less to all the state canals except for the Delaware Division and the Main Line between Columbia and Pittsburgh.
Franz Anton Ritter Von Gerstner, Frederick C. Gamst (ed.) and David J. Diephouse and John C. Decker (translators), Early American Railroads: Franz Anton Ritter von Gerstner’s “Die Innern Communicationen (1842-1843),” (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997), 545
Union Seminary, the first educational institution of the Evangelical Association operated for 50 years in New Berlin Pa. It was renamed the Central Pennsylvania College in 1887, and in 1902, merged with Albright College at Meyerstown. From 1904-1911 a new Union Seminary school operated on the site, this one being non denominational and not affiliated with the Evangelical Association. In 1919 a Silk mill, billed as a "Silk Throwing School" operated in the building. The building suffered a partial collapse in 1943, and was dynomited in 1944.
The Borough of New Berlin is located in central Pennsylvania on the southern edge of Union County along the north side of Penns Creek. Penns Creek is the dividing lines between Union and Snyder Counties. In 1782, the area along Penns Creek that is today New Berlin was known as Longstown.
Union County was erected from Northumberland County March 22, 1813, with nearby Mifflinburg being made the first county seat. New Berlin became the second seat of the Union County Government. The first Courthouse built specifically for that purpose was completed in 1815. [the county seat was moved to Lewisburg in 1855]
"Earlier bands in New Berlin included the New Berlin Silver Cornet Bad in the 1870s and C.D. Bogar's Brass Band in the 1880s"
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In the early 1920's, the Miltonian newspaper ran a weekly page of Historical Notes, with history listed by day. It's one of my favorite things to read, and many of the articles on this blog have come from those blurbs. This is my version of those 1920's pages, in a month format rather than a daily one. (They typically post daily on my facebook page, when I remember to schedule them to do so)
In 1918, the town of Sunbury celebrated a week long "Thrift Week", a campaign to sell War Savings Stamps that included a ceremony for locals to pound nails into "The Kaisers Coffin" in Cameron Park.
"He says we're a pack of pikers - that we're too busy making money and spending it on ourselves to back up the boys at the front. Start calling his bluff to-day! And keep on calling it! Every time you buy a War Savings Stamp you give him a solar plexus knock out. And you're saving money for yourself too."
Mastodon Display at The State Museum in Harrisburg
An Index Of Covered Bridges In The Susquehanna Valley
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An Index Of Covered Bridges In The Susquehanna Valley
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Labeled the "Jud Christie bridge, also known as the Jud Christian" The bridge was named for local farmer and lumberman Jud Christian, but the portal shows the bridges name as Jud Christie.
The 56 foot long Queen Post Truss bridge is one of three covered bridges that cross Little Fishing Creek, all three bridges located along a 3.5 mile stretch
It was built in 1876.
An Index Of Covered Bridges In The Susquehanna Valley
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