History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania . -. exhibits a town platbetween the canal and river, south of the Lewisburg crosscut, with Frontstreet. Cherry alley, Jackson street, Montgomery, Church, Sarahs, Locust,. /i.^j^Ji^^^fi;^ CHILLISQUAQUE TOWNSHIP. 723 and Dusky alleys and Wilson street parallel with the canal and river, inter-sected by Market and Green streets. The width of Market is given asseventy-five feet, of Front and Jackson as sixty feet, and of Green, fifty-fivefeet. One himdred sixty lots are rej^resented as having been laid effort to establish a tovm no doiibt ind
History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania . -. exhibits a town platbetween the canal and river, south of the Lewisburg crosscut, with Frontstreet. Cherry alley, Jackson street, Montgomery, Church, Sarahs, Locust,. /i.^j^Ji^^^fi;^ CHILLISQUAQUE TOWNSHIP. 723 and Dusky alleys and Wilson street parallel with the canal and river, inter-sected by Market and Green streets. The width of Market is given asseventy-five feet, of Front and Jackson as sixty feet, and of Green, fifty-fivefeet. One himdred sixty lots are rej^resented as having been laid effort to establish a tovm no doiibt indicated considerable enterprise onthe part of the projectors, but the place failed to materialize, owing in allprobability to the fact that the country was not so thickly settled at thattime as to require an intermediate trading point between Milton and North-umberland. Ipon the comiiletion of the Philadelphia and Erie and the Lewisburgand Tyrone railroads the attempt to found a town was repeated under morefavorable auspices. Up to this time the coimtry was a farming district ex-clusively, with no other industries than the blacksmith and shoemaker shopsmentioned in connection with the early settlement. In 1S61 P
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