Fire that began in a stable in the city of Williamsport on the night of August 20, 1871, destroyed 45 buildings, near East Third and Mulberry streets, then one of Williamsport’s principal residential and business districts. Among the buildings destroyed was the Russell Inn, a log cabin building as seen in the photo.
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Early settlers in northern Pennsylvania used clumsy axes and hoes to clear land and prepare the soil for farming. Thrashing was done with a flail or trampled by oxen or horses. Men usually worked at lumbering, clearing land, building fences, and raising field crops, while women and children tended livestock, made dairy products, and preserved food.
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“Dry-goods stores” were broad mercantile houses—part fabric shop, grocery, hardware store, shoe store and household-supply business. They also provided a social setting to catch up on the latest community news.
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Castle Grove was built in 1867 on a hill overlooking Danville. Attached to the rear of the forty-four-room mansion was something particularly remarkable: a large, glass-enclosed conservatory known as the Palm Room.
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