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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B4Y_the-gap-clock-tower_Gap-PA.html
Unique on American Highways, was erected by the people of Gap in 1892. It was restored in 1953. The clock's face, long telling time to passing multitudes on the Newport Road, overlooks, at The Gap, William Penn's entrance into Conestoga, new Lan…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B4X_a-stream-for-steam_Quarryville-PA.html
Of all the resources required for operation of the A&S, none was more deceptively vital than water. From its inception under steam locomotion, the A&S was quietly sustained by the vast water resources it continually crossed. Previous droughts and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B4W_a-job-on-the-a-s_Quarryville-PA.html
Unlike routes that served passengers and local freight customers, the A&S required relatively few staffed facilities. Westward from Atglen, the A&S was desolate, compared to the main line's string of frequent village stops. Constructed after the P…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B4V_big-cut-big-fill_New-Providence-PA.html
No other section of the eastern A&S more fully demonstrated the Pennsylvania Railroad's (PRR) commitment to re-shape the landscape for an optimum freight road than its seven miles through Providence Township. The gentle compound curve (on paper) b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B3X_samuel-wright_Columbia-PA.html
Samuel Wright, Son of James and Rhoda Wright, was the original proprietor of Old Columbia. He named and laid out the bounds of the early town in what was then Wright's Ferry. His generosity to his fellow townsmen was manifested in a grant of lan…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B3W_iron-works_Conestoga-PA.html
In 1846 the Safe Harbor blast furnace, foundry and rolling mill, using anthracite for fuel, were built by Reeves, Abbott & Co. Great quantities of iron and rails were produced for the Pennsylvania R.R., incorporated in the same year. During the Ci…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B3T_servicing-a-freight-road_Pequea-PA.html
Finding a strategic location for servicing the freight route was a challenge for the PRR as the A&S headed west over the deep valley of Pequea Creek (upper left image) toward the Susquehanna River. Facilities were created by carving a wider right-…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B2Y_moving-heaven-and-earth_Conestoga-PA.html
When construction began in 1903, no other section of the Pennsylvania Railroad's (PRR) A&S Branch likely seemed as improbable as that along the western boundary of Manor Township. There was no existing path sufficient to the purpose of two-track, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B2R_the-atglen-susquehanna-low-grade_Conestoga-PA.html
The Atglen & Susquehanna Branch was constructed (1903-1906) by the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) as the middle segment of its Low Grade lane, an ambitious through-freight route which extended some 140 miles from Morrisville Yard near Trenton, New Je…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B2P_conestoga_Conestoga-PA.html
Lancaster - 7 Conestoga Home of the Conestoga Wagon Formerly Conestoga Center Founded by John Kendig 1805
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