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Detailed map of part of Pennsylvania between Sharp Mountain and the Susquehanna River showing roads, drainage, and relief by hachures along the survey route. Shows the east and west branches of the Mount Carbon Railroad and the Mill Creek Railroad, which began operation in 1829. Chartered on April 8, 1826. Name changed in 1851 to the Philadelphia and Sunbury Rail Road.
1903; Republished 1955. 82 sheet(s). 35 X 29 cm. Bound. Other places as they appear on original: Adamsdale, Cressona, Columbia, Minersville, Mount Carbon, Palo Alto, New Philadelphia, Orwigsburg, Port Carbon, Saint Clair, Schuylkill Haven.
"This 1829 map of Pennsylvania is the earliest general map of the state to show railroads. Several of the first railroads in the United States were built in Pennsylvania, where they were used to haul coal from mines to rivers and canals. The map also shows roads, canals, and proposed railroads. Counties are distinguished by color, and the main mountain ridges are shown by hachures. The map is by Anthony Finley (circa 1790-1840), an American map publisher based in Philadelphia, at the time the center of cartographic publishing in America. Finley's maps were known for their focus on clarity and for presenting only the most important facts and features. Finley produced numerous individual maps and two atlases, A New American Atlas (1826) and the New General Atlas (1831)." World Digital Library. Shows roads, canals, railroads, and proposed railroads. Counties are distinguished by color. Main mountain ridges are shown by hachures. Earliest general map of the state to show railroads.
A RAILROAD THAT ISSUES ITS OWN NEWSPAPER Of Employees by Employees for Employees Is The Pennsylvania News a Paper With out Politics or Advertisements and No Purpose Except to Tell Whats Doing on the Line By ROBERT B PECK Jhe Pennsylvania News only girl correspondent Miss Mattie Miner interviewing Lord and Lady Mount betten in Union Station Chicago a NEWSPAPER without poltica and without advertising whose private iJa ends are served alraply by service to the community and whose staff seivs rthout payit Bounds visionary enough for i maddest hatters of Gr3enwich Village but ere is such a publication two of them in ftt and they are corporation products The publications are The Pennsylvania giro of the central region of the Pennsyl finia Railroad and The Pennsylvania News i the northwestern region of the same rail md system Directors of the road are to de al this month whether the enterprise is to be stended and a similar paper published by the euployeea of the eastern region which includes Ne York and Philadelphia and has almost nc as many employees as the 60000 In the satra region The clannishnesa of railroad men is some thing that a few months or