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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For generations, an old stone structure in Snyder County has been associated with one of Pennsylvania's frontier defenses of the French and Indian War. The problem is that Fort Pomfret may never actually have been built.
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Innovation doesn't always arrive with smoke pouring from a factory chimney or a locomotive roaring down the tracks. Sometimes it begins quietly. Such is the case of several women inventors in the Susquehanna Valley.
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Walk along Millionaires’ Row in Williamsport, look at Trinity Church, remember the great lumber boom—or encounter that curious old word, herdic—and you can still find the footprints left behind by Peter Herdic
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