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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZCB_forces-of-nature_Kane-PA.html
A DCNR inspection in 2002 deemed the viaduct unsafe and it was closed to all traffic. Restoration work was well underway when, on July 21, 2003, severe weather sent the crew scrambling for shelter. Just after 3:15 p.m., an F1 tornado hit Kinzua Br…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZC8_commerce-to-collapse_Kane-PA.html
As the tallest and longest bridge of its time, the Kinzua Viaduct embodied the spirit of the industrial revolution. Cargo and sightseers rumbled across the viaduct for 120 years until an F1 tornado toppled the viaduct in 2003. Today, a skywalk and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZBM_kinzua-bridge_Kane-PA.html
An Engineering and Historical Marvel. The need to transport coal, oil and lumber across the Kinzua Valley inspired General Thomas Kane, president of the New York, Lake Erie and Western railroad and Coal Company, and Octave Chanute, chief engineer …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1T70_dr-edward-h-mccleery-historical_Kane-PA.html
A medical doctor by profession, McCleery established a wolf park nearby to breed and care for lobo wolves, a subspecies of gray wolf. Subject to a 1920s elimination program, this wolf was saved from extinction through his efforts. The park served …
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Rixford Service Roll
In honor of those who served the World War 1914-1918
Lowell L. Andrus
Lee Frank Baker
Kenneth Burdic
George Burdic
Bertram P. Brown
Lawrence C. Cotton
Lawrence N. Goodell
Ray W. Hunt
Robert E. Hungiville
Clarence …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KQR_port-allegany-pa_Port-Allegany-PA.html
Junction of Tioga and Shamokin War Trails. Indians coming over the great divide camped here and made new canoes. Again embarking westward down
The Allegewe
No white man was allowed on these trails till about 1750. An Important Rafting Center nea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KQQ_nebo-lutheran-chapel-and-cemetery_Mount-Jewett-PA.html
The Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Nebo Church was in 1886 as the first Lutheran Congregational in the Mount Jewett area. The octagonal shaped church was built in 1887 and was patterned after Ersta Kyrka at Danviken, near Stockholm, Sweden. The name…
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Travel point since pioneer days, when travelers coming overland from the Susquehanna continued by water from "Canoe Place." The town grew as a center of lumber and tanning industry. Its descriptive present name came into use about 1840
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM146A_tidewater-pipe-company_Eldred-PA.html
Opposite here was station no.1 of the first pipe line to carry oil across the Alleghenies. Built by an early competitor of Standard Oil, it began May 28, 1879, to pump oil 109 miles to Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1469_thomas-l-kane_Kane-PA.html
Commander of the Civil war "Bucktail Regiment" and founder of the borough of Kane. Breveted Major General in 1863. A friend of Brigham Young and staunch supporter of the Mormon pioneers. He died, 1883, and was buried at this chapel, built at his d…