Progressive Pennsylvania: A Record of the Remarkable Industrial Development of the Keystone State, with Some Account of Its Early and Its Later Transportation Systems, Its Early Settlers, and Its Prominent Men |
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... boats , ferries , bridges , turnpikes , canals , steamboats , and railroads , and these details are followed by several chapters which deal with the great productive industries of the State . Included in these chapters I have given the ...
... boats , ferries , bridges , turnpikes , canals , steamboats , and railroads , and these details are followed by several chapters which deal with the great productive industries of the State . Included in these chapters I have given the ...
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... boat constantly attending to carry any one on board that wants to see them . " From The American Weekly Mercury , May 22 , 1729 " Just arrived from London in the ship Providence , Capt . Jonathan Clarke , a parcel of very likely ...
... boat constantly attending to carry any one on board that wants to see them . " From The American Weekly Mercury , May 22 , 1729 " Just arrived from London in the ship Providence , Capt . Jonathan Clarke , a parcel of very likely ...
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... boat with his family and others . In the same year James Dickson was fired upon by Indians while hunt- ing his cows in Crawford county and seriously wounded . Half - breed Indians and some of full blood who were peace- ably disposed ...
... boat with his family and others . In the same year James Dickson was fired upon by Indians while hunt- ing his cows in Crawford county and seriously wounded . Half - breed Indians and some of full blood who were peace- ably disposed ...
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... boat on which he had taken passage on the Ohio river " came to shore on the Indian side , " the Ohio side , where " a hunting party turned out and killed one buffalo and one deer , but both very poor . " On the 6th the general writes ...
... boat on which he had taken passage on the Ohio river " came to shore on the Indian side , " the Ohio side , where " a hunting party turned out and killed one buffalo and one deer , but both very poor . " On the 6th the general writes ...
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... boats were used on the streams and rivers . Afterwards wagon roads were cut through the forests to meet neighborhood wants , al- though for many years carts and sleds were more gener- ally used on these roads than wagons . When they ...
... boats were used on the streams and rivers . Afterwards wagon roads were cut through the forests to meet neighborhood wants , al- though for many years carts and sleds were more gener- ally used on these roads than wagons . When they ...
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