In the 1880s, the Bloomsburg Car Manufacturing Company in Columbia County produced an estimated four thousand railroad cars. It was a leader in the manufacture of standard railroad freight cars, small mine and colliery cars, rotary dump cars, and other materials for the railroad and mining industries.
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The eating feats of a man known as "Hungry Sam" Miller (pictured on the left in the photo) were legendary in the early 1900s. Miller won many a wager, and there was a time when the ladies who helped make up the pastor's salary by holding chicken and waffle suppers gave gasps of horror when they heard that "Hungry Sam" was there to get "all you can eat for a quarter.
The summer house or summer kitchen was one of the many buildings found on farmsteads in the Susquehanna Valley. It also served in other capacities related to the farm work.
On the Pennsylvania frontier, small-scale distilling was common. Farmers often turned rye or corn into whiskey and apples or peaches into brandy. This made practical sense. Grain was bulky and harder to transport, but whiskey was easier to move, store, and sell. Distilling also prevented waste when crops were abundant.
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