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The newspaper was founded by William Penn Hastings on Jan. 23, 1890. [3] In 1997, Hollinger Inc. sold the paper to Liberty Group Publishing. [4] In June 2005, Fortress Investment Group bought Liberty and changed its name to GateHouse Media. [5]
The Watsontown, Pa., bridge was named the Nurse Helen Fairchild Memorial Bridge. It is an arched bridge over 1,000 feet long, over the West Branch of the Susquehanna River. It is on the National Trust for its construction and design. A plaque on a stand is located in Belgium near the village of West Vleteran, not far from Poperinge.
Watsontown is a borough in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,351 at the 2010 census. The population was 2,351 at the 2010 census. It was named for John Watson, an early settler.
Pennsylvania Route 405/River Road, southeast of Milton 41°00′08″N 76°51′43″W / 41.002222°N 76.861944°W / 41.002222; -76.861944 ( Col. James Cameron West Chillisquaque Township
The Susquehanna, Bloomsburg and Berwick began as the Wilkes-Barre and Western Railway, incorporated on June 22, 1886 to build from Watsontown to Shickshinny.It opened 22 miles (35 km) of line from Watsontown to Millville in 1887, and in 1891, opened an additional 9 miles (14 km) from Millville Junction, just south of Millville, to Orangeville.
In 1928, the segment of PA 4 from Watsontown to Muncy was re-designated as PA 14. [11] In 1936, US 111 was decommissioned, and the route from Chillisquaque to Watsontown was redesignated as part of US 15. [13] PA 14, US 220 and US 15 remained on most of PA 405's alignment until 1941, when the alignment of all three routes were changed. [14]
Milton in 1930. Settled in 1770, Milton was incorporated in 1817, and is governed by a charter that was revised in 1890. Formerly, its extensive manufacturing plants included car and woodworking machinery shops; rolling, flour, knitting, planing, and saw mills; washer, nut, and bolt works; and furniture, shoe, couch, nail, fly net, bamboo novelty, and paper-box factories.
As of the census [4] of 2000, there were 322 people, 121 households, and 93 families residing in the township. The population density was 6.5 people per square mile (2.5/km 2).