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Category : Dauphin County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1578
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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
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Category : Dauphin County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1578
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Publisher:
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Category : Dauphin County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1578
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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
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Category : Dauphin County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1196
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Category : Dauphin County (Pa.)
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Pages : 1196
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The Railroad That Never Was
Author: Herbert H. Harwood
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253001552
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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This account of a doomed enterprise is “an important contribution to both rail and road history, as well as to business history”—photos and maps included (The Lexington Quarterly). Stretching over two hundred miles through Pennsylvania’s most challenging mountain terrain, the South Pennsylvania Railroad would form the heart of a new trunk line, from the East Coast to Pittsburgh and the Midwest. Conceived in 1881 by William H. Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, and a group of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia industrialists, it was intended to break the rival Pennsylvania Railroad’s near-monopoly in the region. But the line was within a year of opening when J.P. Morgan brokered a peace treaty that aborted the project and helped bolster his position in the world of finance. The railroad right of way and its tunnels would sit idle for sixty years—before coming to life in the late 1930s as the original section of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Based on original letters, documents, diaries, and newspaper reports, The Railroad That Never Was uncovers the truth behind this mysterious railway, one of the most infamous construction projects of the late nineteenth century.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253001552
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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This account of a doomed enterprise is “an important contribution to both rail and road history, as well as to business history”—photos and maps included (The Lexington Quarterly). Stretching over two hundred miles through Pennsylvania’s most challenging mountain terrain, the South Pennsylvania Railroad would form the heart of a new trunk line, from the East Coast to Pittsburgh and the Midwest. Conceived in 1881 by William H. Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, and a group of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia industrialists, it was intended to break the rival Pennsylvania Railroad’s near-monopoly in the region. But the line was within a year of opening when J.P. Morgan brokered a peace treaty that aborted the project and helped bolster his position in the world of finance. The railroad right of way and its tunnels would sit idle for sixty years—before coming to life in the late 1930s as the original section of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Based on original letters, documents, diaries, and newspaper reports, The Railroad That Never Was uncovers the truth behind this mysterious railway, one of the most infamous construction projects of the late nineteenth century.
FAMILIE ALLWEIN
Author: Duane F. Alwin
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1483647315
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 725
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Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1483647315
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 725
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Dauphin County, Pennsylvania Area Key
Author: Florence Clint
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Category : Dauphin County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Category : Dauphin County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley
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Category : Huntingdon County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 778
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Category : Huntingdon County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 778
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The Wenrich Family Bulletin
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Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Colonels in Blue
Author: Roger D. Hunt
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 9780811702539
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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" ... profiles ... contain an overview of each colonel's military career, including his previous ranks and commands; his occupation and education; his dates of birth and death; his place of burial; and a list of sources for further reading. Where possible, a photograph accompanies each profile. The author has also provided a list of every infantry, militia, cavalry, and artillery regiment in each state, complete with a succession of its commanding officers."--Dust jacket flap.
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 9780811702539
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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" ... profiles ... contain an overview of each colonel's military career, including his previous ranks and commands; his occupation and education; his dates of birth and death; his place of burial; and a list of sources for further reading. Where possible, a photograph accompanies each profile. The author has also provided a list of every infantry, militia, cavalry, and artillery regiment in each state, complete with a succession of its commanding officers."--Dust jacket flap.
Pennsylvania County and Regional Histories and Atlases
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 18
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 18
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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley
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Category : Huntingdon County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Category : Huntingdon County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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