History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania . tre turnpike are theprincipal public highways. The railroads are the Philadelphia and Read-ing, Lehigh Valley, and the Shamokin division of the Northern Central. Industrially, the township is exclusively a mining district. The coll-ieries located within its limits are the Pennsylvania, Black Diamond,Mt. Carmel. Reliance, Alaska, Merriam, Monitor, Locust Gap, and LocustSpring, of which the history is given in Chapters X and XI of this work, byDr. J. J. John. MINING TOWNS. Locust Gap is situated on the line of the Philadelphia and Reading rail-roa
History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania . tre turnpike are theprincipal public highways. The railroads are the Philadelphia and Read-ing, Lehigh Valley, and the Shamokin division of the Northern Central. Industrially, the township is exclusively a mining district. The coll-ieries located within its limits are the Pennsylvania, Black Diamond,Mt. Carmel. Reliance, Alaska, Merriam, Monitor, Locust Gap, and LocustSpring, of which the history is given in Chapters X and XI of this work, byDr. J. J. John. MINING TOWNS. Locust Gap is situated on the line of the Philadelphia and Reading rail-road, and has been a place of local importance since the development of theadjacent region began. The postoffice was established in 1870 with J. as first postmaster. By the census of 1890 the population exceededseventeen htmdred. The town is really a collection of mining hamlets, and the plat presentsbut slight evidences of regularity. It is owned, almost exclusively by thePhiladelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company; the number of free-. ^f^^^H^ e^ ^/h^rr t^^t^ J^ MT. CARIIEL TOWNSHIP. 785 holders, as ascertained by recent investigation, is thirty-three. Five o-eneralstores, one drug store, and live hotels constitute the business of the are two public school buildings, a Catholic church and parochial school,a Lutheran church organization, and one newspaper, the Locust Gap from the coal operations in the vicinity, the town possesses but little ofhistoric interest. It was a well-known rendezvous for the Mollie Maguiresduring the palmy days of that organization, and has frequently been thescene of disastrous railroad wrecks. The Smaller Villages of the township are StuartviUe. Bells Tunnel. TheMountain, and Beaver Dale, all of which are virtually suburbs of Mt. Car-mel; Green Eidge, half a mile from the station of that name on the LehighValley railroad; Alaska, at the intersection of the Mt. Carmel branch of thePhiladelphia and Reading railroad with
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