In the 21st century, we can sit down at any time of the day to read the latest edition of a morning or evening newspaper. Newspaper history in the Susquehanna Valley dates back to the late 1700s.
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Construction on the “Deep Cut” west of Antes Fort/Jersey Shore Station on the Sunbury and Erie Railroad proved to be a major obstacle. It required a steam shovel to dig 300,000 cubic feet of dirt and was a curiosity that attracted onlookers from the surrounding area.
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A fresh look at the German inscriptions on some thirty pieces of redware pottery, and a newly discovered jar with provenance to the original owner, suggest that this group should be attributed to an unknown potter in Union or Northumberland County, rather than a Berks County potter, as previously thought.
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The increasingly attractive reputation of the country around French Creek, in today's Venango and Crawford Counties, prompted two men from Northumberland County to blaze the first white man's trail westward into what is now Jefferson County.
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