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The Homestead Historic District is a historic district which is located in Homestead, Munhall, and West Homestead, Pennsylvania. ... and the Bost Building, ...
Location of Huntingdon County in Pennsylvania. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Pressed wood, also known as presswood, is any engineered wood building and furniture construction material made from wood shavings and particles, sawdust or wood fibers bonded together with an adhesive under heat and pressure. [1]
Location of Berks County in Pennsylvania. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Berks County, Pennsylvania.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on National Register of Historic Places in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States.
This frame building was built ca. 1850, [13] adjoining the log farmhouse. Henry Hess (1794-1867) constructed the building over a vaulted root cellar, which is one of three arch cellars at this homestead. Included in the building is a walk-in fireplace, previously used for butchering, making soap, heating laundry water, etc. A brick squirrel ...
A major use of sawdust is for particleboard; coarse sawdust may be used for wood pulp. Sawdust has a variety of other practical uses, including serving as a mulch, as an alternative to clay cat litter, or as a fuel. Until the advent of refrigeration, it was often used in icehouses to keep ice frozen during the summer. It has been used in ...
The once-ubiquitous rusty, steel conical sawdust burners have for the most part vanished, as the sawdust and other mill waste is now processed into particleboard and related products, or used to heat wood-drying kilns. Co-generation facilities will produce power for the operation and may also feed superfluous energy onto the grid.
This historic district encompasses 719 contributing buildings that are located in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Milton. The buildings mostly date from the 1880s to the early twentieth century; older buildings were largely lost due to a fire in 1880 and floods in 1972 and 1977.