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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On October 30, 1874, flames devastated the town of Selinsgrove in Snyder County. Businesses, residences, and community landmarks were lost. Among them were the Methodist Episcopal Church, stores, homes, the Selinsgrove Times printing office, and the Pine Street school. But over 150 years later, "beauty from ashes" defines this 21st-century community.
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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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