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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... Presidents . And how proud they are to - day that General Robert E. Lee was a Virginian ! The neighboring State of Ohio has shown far more civic pride than Pennsylvania , although , if the history of the two States be closely studied ...
... Presidents . And how proud they are to - day that General Robert E. Lee was a Virginian ! The neighboring State of Ohio has shown far more civic pride than Pennsylvania , although , if the history of the two States be closely studied ...
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... President Washington the first director of the United States Mint . There is a street in Germantown called Rittenhouse street , and one of the aristocratic sections of Philadelphia is called Rittenhouse square . Pastorius became the ...
... President Washington the first director of the United States Mint . There is a street in Germantown called Rittenhouse street , and one of the aristocratic sections of Philadelphia is called Rittenhouse square . Pastorius became the ...
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... president of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company , as follows : " Before any canal was made I shipped 800 barrels of flour one winter from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia by wagon , the freight on which was $ 2,400 , being $ 3 per barrel ...
... president of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company , as follows : " Before any canal was made I shipped 800 barrels of flour one winter from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia by wagon , the freight on which was $ 2,400 , being $ 3 per barrel ...
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... president of both these companies . Gordon , in his Gazetteer , published in 1832 , gives the further history of these enterprises as follows : " About fifteen miles of the most difficult parts of the two works , comprising much rock ...
... president of both these companies . Gordon , in his Gazetteer , published in 1832 , gives the further history of these enterprises as follows : " About fifteen miles of the most difficult parts of the two works , comprising much rock ...
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... the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company . W. Hasell Wilson says that the locomo- tive John Bull , built by Stephenson & Co. , of England , to the order of Robert L. Stevens , president of EARLY RAILROADS IN THE UNITED STATES . 163.
... the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company . W. Hasell Wilson says that the locomo- tive John Bull , built by Stephenson & Co. , of England , to the order of Robert L. Stevens , president of EARLY RAILROADS IN THE UNITED STATES . 163.
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