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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During the heyday of timbering in the woods of north-central Pennsylvania, nearly sixty sawmills operated along the Susquehanna River between Lycoming and Loyalsock creeks. Williamsport’s mills reportedly sawed more than eight billion board feet of white pine between 1868 and 1906.
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.
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