In 1888, William Edwards Charles, of Middleburg, at 18, was hired to tend four mules towing two canal boats from Port Trevorton in Snyder County to New York City and back in 1888. Read Part Two of the diary, beginning July 1st of that year, detailing his experiences, including the July 4th celebration.
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The Williamsport and North Branch Railroad, usually abbreviated W&NB, was a north-central Pennsylvania short line that served Lycoming and Sullivan Counties from the early 1870s until abandonment in the late 1930s. It was among many short lines serving smaller counties in the Susquehanna Valley.
Camp meeting groves were a common occurrence in Pennsylvania in the 1800’s. Very few remain. The first Methodist camp meeting of record in Central Pennsylvania was held in the summer of 1805 about two miles below Milton along the Chillisquaque Creek.
Squatters in the West Branch of the Susquehanna Valley reportedly signed their own Declaration of Independence on July 4th, 1776, not knowing the Continental Congress had signed its declaration that same day in Philadelphia.
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