Castle Grove was built in 1867 on a hill overlooking Danville. Attached to the rear of the forty-four-room mansion was something particularly remarkable: a large, glass-enclosed conservatory known as the Palm Room.
Before he became one of the initial inductees into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Christy Matthewson, "Big Six" was a young Bucknell University student in Lewisburg, and preparing perhaps, unknowingly to become one of America's first great sporting heroes.
Head west from Lewistown through the gap in Jacks Mountain, and the landscape quickly unfolds into one of Pennsylvania’s most picturesque farming regions, the Kishacoquillas Valley. This valley hosts one of the oldest and most diverse Amish and Mennonite communities in North America. But its history stretches back long before the Amish ever settled here.
Before radios, centralized traffic control, and automatic signaling, a telegraph shanty was a small lineside office where a railroad operator or telegrapher helped control train movements.
A Susquehanna Valley Farmer learned quickly the grass isn't always greener, or in this case, the river wasn't always smoother from a canal boat.
Born in a small community in northern Columbia County, missionary Franklin Laubach changed the world. He began a literacy program to help people read, with a simple concept, each one teach one.
During America’s Bicentennial in 1976, the Potter County Historical Society published a collection of stories about the region’s early residents. Among them were the recollections of Annis Coleman, a woman who discussed her recollections of pioneer life.
Although he received little formal education, Captain Jack Crawford left the coal mines of Schuylkill County and led a life filled with adventure on the western frontier. Crawford also became an accomplished writer, poet, lecturer, and newspaper correspondent.
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.
