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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The Susquehanna River North and West Branch Telegraph Company opened up a faster communications link when it was built through the river valleys. It reached Williamsport in 1851.
The Pennsylvania Grange began among a small circle of farm families in Lycoming County. Faced with rising costs, limited bargaining power, rural isolation, and dependence upon railroads and merchants, they organized Eagle Grange No. 1 in 1871.
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.
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