Nineteenth-century businessman J. Warner Erwin traveled across Pennsylvania as a conveyancer, a term for a writer of deeds, leases, property transfers, and other legal matters. He kept a detailed diary of his travels, including a descriptive account of a November 1851 trip through several towns in the Susquehanna Valley.
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Nineteenth-century businessman J. Warner Erwin traveled across Pennsylvania as a conveyancer, a term for a writer of deeds, leases, property transfers, and other legal matters. He kept a detailed diary of his travels, including a descriptive account of a November 1851 trip through several towns in the Susquehanna Valley.
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Peter Tinsman occupies an important place at the threshold of Williamsport’s great lumber era: he introduced steam-powered milling at precisely the moment Williamsport was ready to become the “Lumber Capital of the World.”
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21st-century travelers can actually walk through history, the Poe Paddy Mountain Railroad Tunnel in Centre County. The tunnel’s story began when the Lewisburg, Centre and Spruce Creek Railroad pushed westward toward Penns Valley.
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