Lycoming County has a rich industrial history, first in lumber and then in manufacturing. Thousands were employed as lumberjacks, and others worked in sawmills, planing mills, or furniture factories that processed the lumber. Until 1894, lumber was the county's main industry. Inevitably, the mountainsides were denuded and floods toppled the remaining lumbering companies. The heyday over, many company towns collapsed. Boards of trade were created to entice manufacturers to the region. During the first half of the twentieth century, Lycoming once again prospered with hundreds of new entrepreneurs and companies. Lycoming County's Industrial Heritage documents the people who worked in the factories, mills, and for the manufacturers that no longer exist, victims of recession, urban sprawl, and offshore industries. Each image honors the role of labor and serves as a reminder of the individuals who helped build industrial America.

"Looks at sites and events in Pennsylvania to explore the emergence of heritage culture about industry and its loss in America. Traces the shaping of public memory of coal, steel, railroading, lumber, oil, and agriculture, and the story it tells about both local and national identity"--Provided by publisher.

Beginning with the region's "Aboriginal Occupation" (dating back into the early 17th century), the text chronicles the settlement and development of the county through the book's first publication in 1892. The last ten chapters--more than 500 pages--contain biographical sketches of prominent residents; surnames include Allen, Artley, Bailey, Baker, Bastian, Bennett, Crawford, Fague, Gamble, Hall, Harris, Hay(e)s, Hill, King, Lundy, Marshall, Metzger, Miller, Reed, Smith, Thomas, Weaver, Wilson and many others. M0428HB - $166.00

Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes information abstracted from over 2,000 journals published worldwide.

The Pennsylvania bulletin is the official gazette of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It contains notices, regulations and other documents filed with the Legislative Reference Bureau ... and supplements the Pennsylvania code ...

For more than one hundred years, the Grit was small-town America's favorite family newspaper and a Sunday morning staple. Dietrick Lamade, a German immigrant and self-made man, founded the Grit and ushered it through early adversity and uncertainty, eventually initiating innovations such as direct mail and nationwide newsboy delivery, transforming the paper into a national institution. The Grit was one of the first newspapers in America to feature color photographs and fictional supplements. Williamsport: The Grit Photograph Collection documents momentous events from a turn-of-the-century city on the rise, through the end of the lumber boom, the world wars, and the great Depression, to modern times.

Includes section "Book reviews and Book notices.".

Large scale atlas of the entire state of Pennsylvania showing major roads, cities, counties, towns and much more. Fully indexed. Includes detailed enlargements of Allentown, Altoona, Erie, Gettysburg, Hershey, Johnstown, Reading, Scranton, Wilkes-Barre and more.