Lewisburg And Tyrone Railroad
The Lewisburg and Tyrone Railroad (later Railway), previously the Lewisburg, Centre and Spruce Creek Railroad, was a subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) in central Pennsylvania. Originally intended to connect the Susquehanna Valley with Tyrone and the ore lands to its northeast, it was built in two discontinuous and never-connected pieces, one from Tyrone to Fairbrook and one from Lewisburg to Lemont. These served as lightly trafficked branches of the PRR into the early 20th Century. The line from Tyrone to Fairbrook passed into the hands of the short line Bellefonte Central Railroad in 1927, but the PRR's manipulations ensured its abandonment in 1941. The line between Lewisburg and Lemont was severed in 1970 and was gradually cut further back towards Montandon. Regular service ended on the last remaining part of the line in 1997, and it was abandoned in 2008. Lewisburg, Centre and Spruce Creek The Lewisburg, Centre and Spruce Creek Railroad was chartered on April 1 ...
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Pennsylvania Railroad
The Pennsylvania Railroad (reporting mark PRR), legal name The Pennsylvania Railroad Company also known as the "Pennsy", was an American Class I railroad that was established in 1846 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was named for the commonwealth in which it was established. By 1882, Pennsylvania Railroad had become the largest railroad (by traffic and revenue), the largest transportation enterprise, and the largest corporation in the world. Its budget was second only to the U.S. government. Over the years, it acquired, merged with, or owned part of at least 800 other rail lines and companies. At the end of 1926, it operated of rail line;This mileage includes companies independently operated. PRR miles of all tracks, which includes first (or main), second, third, fourth, and sidings, totalled 28,040.49 at the end of 1926. in the 1920s, it carried nearly three times the traffic as other railroads of comparable length, such as the Union Pacific and Atchison, T ...
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Buffalo Valley (Pennsylvania)
Buffalo Valley may refer to: * Buffalo Valley (Nevada), a valley in Nevada *Buffalo Valley, Lewis County, Tennessee, an unincorporated community *Buffalo Valley, Putnam County, Tennessee Buffalo Valley is an unincorporated town in far western Putnam County, Tennessee, United States. The zipcode is: 38548. The town could be described as a ghost town. History There was much activity in Buffalo Valley at an early date. There was a g ...

Logan Spring Run
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Little Juniata River
The Little Juniata River, sometimes called the "Little J," is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed August 8, 2011 tributary of the Juniata River in the Susquehanna River watershed of Pennsylvania. It is formed at Altoona by the confluence of several short streams. It flows northeast in the Logan Valley at the foot of Brush Mountain. At Tyrone, the river receives the southern Bald Eagle Creek, then turns abruptly southeast, passing through a water gap between the Brush and Bald Eagle Mountain ridges and enters Sinking Valley where it receives Sinking Run. Approximately northwest of Huntingdon, near Petersburg, it joins the Frankstown Branch Juniata River, forming the Juniata River. In colonial America, the river was used to float freight downriver on boats called "arcs". Shipments were placed on board in Birmingham, just east of Tyrone, to await water high enough to clear the rocky stream bed. Thu ...
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Brush Mountain (Blair County, Pennsylvania)
Brush Mountain is a stratigraphic ridge in the Appalachian Mountains of central Pennsylvania, United States, lying east of the Allegheny Front and west of Tussey Mountain. It runs along the southeast side of the Little Juniata River and forms a horseshoe around Sinking Run, and is the westernmost ridge in its section of the Ridge-and-valley Appalachians. The western ridge line separates the Logan Valley from the Sinking Valley. Brush Mountain lies entirely in Blair County. It runs from the water gap formed with Bald Eagle Mountain by the Little Juniata River at Tyrone, south to the Sinking Valley anticline fold near Altoona then turns northeast to the Canoe Valley syncline fold, where the ridge becomes Canoe Mountain. The total length of Brush Mountain is approximately . No major roads or rivers cross the ridge or run through gaps. Kettle Reservoir collects surface runoff from a small area in the fold, and the dam was made by filling in a small ravine. Kettle Road, a sec ...
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Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie (, ; November 25, 1835August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and became one of the richest Americans in history. He became a leading philanthropist in the United States, Great Britain, and the British Empire. During the last 18 years of his life, he gave away around $350 million (roughly $ billion in ), almost 90 percent of his fortune, to charities, foundations and universities. His 1889 article proclaiming " The Gospel of Wealth" called on the rich to use their wealth to improve society, expressed support for progressive taxation and an estate tax, and stimulated a wave of philanthropy. Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, and emigrated to Pittsburgh with his parents in 1848 at age 12. Carnegie started work as a telegrapher, and by the 1860s had investments in railroads, railroad sleeping cars, bridges, and oil derricks. H ...
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Scotia, Pennsylvania
Scotia was an American village that was located in Patton Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, at . Although the community was called Scotia, the name of the local post office was Benore. (''Ben'' is Gaelic for "mountain f but further etymology of the name is unknown.) History This village got its start when Andrew Carnegie, through the Edgar Thomson Steel Company, leased large tracts of township land that had iron ore. Small-scale mining had taken place here since the late-eighteenth century; Carnegie organized a larger effort to exploit the deposits, beginning in 1880. Ore was removed from a broad open pit, washed to separate it from clay, and loaded onto railcars. The Pennsylvania Railroad extended its Fairbrook Branch to the village in 1881 and began hauling the ore to steel mills in Pittsburgh. There was also an extensive narrow-gauge railroad in the pits to haul ore to the washer, and several artesian wells and a reservoir to supply water for ore washing. Carnegie ...
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Lewisburg And Tyrone Railway
The Lewisburg and Tyrone Railroad (later Railway), previously the Lewisburg, Centre and Spruce Creek Railroad, was a subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) in central Pennsylvania. Originally intended to connect the Susquehanna Valley with Tyrone and the ore lands to its northeast, it was built in two discontinuous and never-connected pieces, one from Tyrone to Fairbrook and one from Lewisburg to Lemont. These served as lightly trafficked branches of the PRR into the early 20th Century. The line from Tyrone to Fairbrook passed into the hands of the short line Bellefonte Central Railroad in 1927, but the PRR's manipulations ensured its abandonment in 1941. The line between Lewisburg and Lemont was severed in 1970 and was gradually cut further back towards Montandon. Regular service ended on the last remaining part of the line in 1997, and it was abandoned in 2008. Lewisburg, Centre and Spruce Creek The Lewisburg, Centre and Spruce Creek Railroad was chartered on April 1 ...
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Paddy Mountain
Paddy may refer to: People *Paddy (given name), a list of people with the given name or nickname *An ethnic slur for an Irishman Birds *Paddy (pigeon), a Second World War carrier pigeon * Snowy sheathbill or paddy, a bird species *Black-faced sheathbill, also known as the paddy bird Entertainment * ''Paddy'' (film), a 1970 Irish comedy *Paddy Kirk, a fictional character in the British soap opera ''Emmerdale'' Other uses *Paddy field, a type of cultivated land *Paddy (unmilled rice) *Paddy mail, a train for construction workers *Paddy Whiskey, a liquor See also *Patty (other) *Paddi (other) *Padi (other) Padi, PADI or Pa Di may refer to: * Padi, Chennai, India, a locality and neighbourhood in the city of Chennai ** Padi railway station * Padi, Iran, a village * Padi Boyd, American astrophysicist * Padi Richo, Indian politician * Padi (band), an I ...

Spring Mills, Pennsylvania
Spring Mills is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Centre County, Pennsylvania, Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of the State College, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 268 at the United States Census 2010, 2010 census. Geography Spring Mills is located in southeastern Centre County, near the center of Gregg Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, Gregg Township. It is in the Penns Valley, at the confluence of Sinking Creek (Pennsylvania), Sinking Creek with Penns Creek. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , all land. Pennsylvania Route 45 runs along the northern edge of the community, leading west to Centre Hall, Pennsylvania, Centre Hall and to State College, Pennsylvania, State College, and east to Millheim, Pennsylvania, Millheim. Demographics At the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census there were 268 people, 109 households, and 83 families in the CDP. T ...
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