For perhaps sixty to eighty years, singing schools trained congregations to read and sing music, provided rural communities with winter entertainment, and created one of the most important courtship settings available to young people in the Susquehanna Valley.
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Although he received little formal education, Captain Jack Crawford left the coal mines of Schuylkill County and led a life filled with adventure on the western frontier. Crawford also became an accomplished writer, poet, lecturer, and newspaper correspondent.
The Susquehanna River North and West Branch Telegraph Company opened up a faster communications link when it was built through the river valleys. It reached Williamsport in 1851.
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