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Title: The Pennsylvania railroad : its origin, construction, condition, and connections ; embracing historical, descriptive, and statistical notices of cities, towns, villages, stations, industries, and objects of interest on its various lines in Pennsylvania and New Jersey
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Sipes, William B., d. 1905 Pennsylvania Railroad. Passenger Dept Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Pennsylvania Railroad
Publisher: Philadelphia : [Pennsylvania Railroad Co.] The Passenger Dept.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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nsider-able importance. It was here that ColonelArmstrong concentrated his forces for hissuccessful expedition against the Indians atKittanning; and here lived GeorgeCroghan,a celebrated agent of the proprietaries intheir intercourse with the Indians. The set-tlement is still known by its aboriginal nameof Aughwick. Space will not permit a recapitulation ofthe many dark and bloody scenes whichmarked the efforts of the early pioneers tobuild up homes in the valleys of Hunt-ingdon county. Those pioneers v^ere ahardy and venturesome race, and no ob-stacles which savage hostility could placein their way were sufficient to turn .themfrom their determination to make the wil-derness blossom and the waste places glad.Many of the beautiful scenes which thetraveler now gazes upon with delight, havebeen crimsoned with the blood of murderedmen, women, and children ; and many hum-ble and happy homes were reduced to theashes of desolation. But the settlers would 130 THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. *jiSR

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SH jrf% . ^–^-^^ ^i ^-^. „^ ROCKS NEAR HUNTINGDON. not be dismayed, and in time, conqueringtlie savages, tliey realized the full fruition oftheir hopes. At what time the white settlers first cameto where the town of Huntingdon nowstands cannot be accurately determined, butthe site of the town was surveyed by JohnLukens, surveyor-general of the colony, in1756, for a claimant named Crawford, andwas then called George Croghans Im-provement. It was a well-known spot, ata very early period, to Indian traders and pioneers, and hadbeen an import-ant point to thesavages from timeimmemorial. 11was known then,and for years after-ward, as Stand-ing Stone, fromthe fact that astone column, de-scribed by JohnHarris as beingfourteen feet highand six inchessquare, stood onthe flat, belowthe present town,where Stone creekenters the Juniatariver. This flat wasan Indian corn-field at the timethe first white menvisited it. Howlong the stone hadstood there, orwho first erectedit, Indian tradi-tion fail

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Title: The Pacific tourist : Adams & Bishop’s illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes across the continent, all pleasure resorts and places of most noted scenery in the Far West, also of all cities, towns, villages, U.S. forts, springs, lakes, mountains, routes of summer travel, best localities for hunting, fishing, sporting, and enjoyment, with all needful information for the pleasure traveler, miner, settler, or business man : a complete traveler’s guide of the Union and Central Pacific Railroads, and all points of business or pleasure travel to California, Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Montana, the mines and mining of the Territories, the lands of the Pacific Coast, the wonders of the Rocky Mountains, the scenery of the Sierra Nevadas, the Colorado Mountains, the big trees, the geysers, the Yosemite, and the Yellowstone
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Shearer, Frederick E Williams, Henry T
Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad Company Central Pacific Railroad Company
Publisher: New York : Adams & Bishop
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ith narrow gauge cars and locomotive.If the party is large enough for a picnic, so muchthe better, as often flat cars are added, neatlytrimmed with evergreen boughs. The railroad,after leaving the station turns dii-ectly towardthe mountain range, and gradually ascends forthe first six nules, a steady grade of 200 feet tothe mile, until just before the mouth of the can-on it reaches 296 feet. Nothing can describe theapparent desolation of sage brush and dry sterileappearance of the soil, but here and there where-ever the little mountain brook can be divertedfrom its course, and its water used to irrigate theland, the richest of fruit trees, grass and grainspring up and give abundant crops. The littlestream, with its rapid fall, follows us up theentire length of the canon. The upward ascentof the grade seems hardly noticeable, of so uni-form a slope is the surface of the country, and itis not till the base of the mountains is reached,and the tourist looks back, he realizes liis height,.

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SCENES IN AMERICAN FORK CANON. 1.—Mt. Aspinwall, or Lone Mountain. 2.—Rock Summits. 3.—Picnic Grove, Deer Creek. 4.—A quiet Glen. 5.—Hanging Rock. 6.—Kock Narrows. wmm ^m€iFi€ wQwrni^w. 145 and sees in the distance the clear surface of UtahLake considerably below him. Gathering nowon the flat cars—where the scenery can be bestobserved—the little train slowly enters the canon.Scarcely 500 feet are passed over before therebursts upon the eye views of rock scenes of themost rugged character. The little valley isscarcely 100 feet broad, and in its widest partnot over 200 feet, but from tlie very track and littlestream, the rocks loom up into heights of start-ling distinctness and almost perpendicular ele-vation. The color of the rocks is uniformly of verydark red and brown granite, apparently havingonce been heated in a terrible furnace, and thenin melting had arranged themselves into ruggedand fantastic shape moie than mortal could con-ceive. At the beginning of the c

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