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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Head west from Lewistown through the gap in Jacks Mountain, and the landscape quickly unfolds into one of Pennsylvania’s most picturesque farming regions, the Kishacoquillas Valley. This valley hosts one of the oldest and most diverse Amish and Mennonite communities in North America. But its history stretches back long before the Amish ever settled here.
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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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Before radios, centralized traffic control, and automatic signaling, a telegraph shanty was a small lineside office where a railroad operator or telegrapher helped control train movements.
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