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Built in 1846, this historic structure is a three-story, frame building, measuring 40 by 30 feet (12.2 by 9.1 m), with a one-story frame office attached. It sits on a rubble stone foundation and has clapboard siding. The mill ceased operation between 1973 and 1974, but continues as a livestock feed mill. [2]
Cressona is a borough in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.Formed in 1857 from part of North Manheim Township, it was founded by and named for John Chapman Cresson, a Philadelphia civil engineer and manager of the Schuylkill Navigation Company, president of the Mine Hill and Schuylkill Haven Railroad, and the chief engineer of Fairmount Park in Philadelphia.
Cresson is a borough in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States.Cresson is 80 miles (130 km) east of Pittsburgh.It is above 2,000 feet (600 m) in elevation. Lumber, coal, and coke yards were industries that had supported the population, which numbered 1,470 in 1910.
For the purposes of this list, the county is split into three regions: Eastern, Northern, and Southern. Eastern Chester County is defined as being the municipalities south and east of a line extending from Phoenixville to Exton to West Chester; Northern Chester County is defined as being the municipalities north of the Philadelphia Main Line and west of a line extending from Phoenixville to ...
Description: Laborers at a Russian boarding house by Lewis Hines, Homestead, PA, 1909. A pioneer in the use of the camera to document America's immigrants and poor, Lewis Hines made photographs for the Pittsburgh Survey, a pioneering sociological study of industrial life in Allegheny County, while working as staff photographer for the Russell Sage Foundation.
A new family-run diner hoping to give back to the community will soon open its doors in Centre County. The Red Roost Diner plans to officially welcome customers starting Monday, Jan. 27, at 807 ...
Cresson Township is a township in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,820 at the 2020 census. [2] The township surrounds the boroughs of Cresson and Sankertown but is separate from them. It is part of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The Colonial Industrial Quarter in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania is considered America's earliest industrial park.Established by the colonial Moravians along the banks of the Monocacy Creek, the ten-acre site contains historic buildings such as the 1762 Waterworks (A National Historic Landmark), 1761 Tannery, 1869 Luckenbach Mill, 1748/1834 Gristmiller's House, reconstructed 1764 Springhouse and ...