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Timothy Francis Walsh FAIA (November 8, 1868 – July 7, 1934) was an American architect and partner in the firm Maginnis, Walsh and Sullivan and Maginnis & Walsh who designed more than 115 ecclesiastical buildings and numerous university buildings over the course of his career.
Tri-States Monument, where New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania meet. In the background, Interstate 84 crosses between NY and PA just north of the monument. The New York–Pennsylvania border is the state line between the U.S. states of New York and Pennsylvania. It has three sections:
The New York–Pennsylvania Joint Interstate Bridge Commission, or simply the Joint Interstate Bridge Commission, is an interstate agency jointly owned by the states of New York and Pennsylvania. The commission was formed in 1919 by the two states to manage the crossings of the Delaware River that connected them. [ 1 ]
A new railroad station was created in Pond Eddy on the Pennsylvania side. The riverfront location on the New York side had two stores, a Methodist church, a telegraph office, eighteen homes and a new hotel with a restaurant. The hotel had new owners around the time of the bridge and eventually became a large stop for travelers.
The DL&W built the viaduct as part of its 39.6-mile (63.7 km) Nicholson Cutoff, which replaced a winding and hilly section of the route between Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Binghamton, New York, saving 3.6 miles (5.8 km), 21 minutes of passenger train time, and one hour of freight train time.
The firm of Barry, Betta & Led Duke of Albany, New York won the award for the new bridge at a cost of $2,492,687 and that the award would be official in April 1991. Construction would begin soon after the approval. [26] PennDOT's funding arrived in May 1991 at the total of $2 million. [27] The new bridge opened on July 24, 1992. [2]
The General Assembly of Pennsylvania commissioned the surveying of land near Presque Isle through an act passed on 18 April 1795. Andrew Ellicott, who famously completed Pierre Charles L'Enfant's survey of Washington, D.C., and helped resolve the boundary between Pennsylvania and New York, arrived to begin the survey in June 1795.
A Guidebook to Historic Western Pennsylvania (2d ed.). Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 256– 271. ISBN 978-0-8229-3630-5. Wilkinson, Norman B. (1979). Land policy and speculation in Pennsylvania, 1779-1800: a test of the New Democracy. The Management of public lands in the United States. New York: Arno Press. ISBN 978-0-405-11357-4