. The Pennsylvania railroad : its origin, construction, condition, and connections ; embracing historical, descriptive, and statistical notices of cities, towns, villages, stations, industries, and objects of interest on its various lines in Pennsylvania and New Jersey . ENTRANCE TO WILD CAT natural history, a co-operative mutual lifeinsurance company, and a national Marietta, on the opposite side of theriver, is Wild Cat Glen, a romantic spot,which has been purchased by the Masonicfraternity as a summer resort of the brother-hood. Duffys Park and Donegal Springsare resorts in
. The Pennsylvania railroad : its origin, construction, condition, and connections ; embracing historical, descriptive, and statistical notices of cities, towns, villages, stations, industries, and objects of interest on its various lines in Pennsylvania and New Jersey . ENTRANCE TO WILD CAT natural history, a co-operative mutual lifeinsurance company, and a national Marietta, on the opposite side of theriver, is Wild Cat Glen, a romantic spot,which has been purchased by the Masonicfraternity as a summer resort of the brother-hood. Duffys Park and Donegal Springsare resorts in the immediate neighborhood,the latter of which is the location of thehatching-establishment of the Pennsylvaniafish commissioners. Population, 2397. Bainbridge, ninety-one miles.—Lime-burning is carried on here, and the ship-ment amounts to about one thousand tonsper month. The village contains threehotels, a public hall, and several former years this was the site of a profit-able shad fishery, but the constructionof the dam at Columbia destroyed theindustry. Recent improvements havingopened a passage-way for the finny tribefrom the Chesapeake bay, it is probable 106 THE PENNSYLVANIA WILD CAT GLEN. that the former weahh of Bainbridge mayreturn to it. This portion of the Susquehanna river hasbeen proHfic in speculations, many of whichproved abortive. A few miles above Bain-bridge are the Conewago falls, a dangerousobstruction to navigation in years past,wlien rafts and flat-boats were the onlymeans by which the products of the in-terior could reach a market below. Adistinguished lawyer in Lancaster undertook to construct a canal around these falls. Hespent his fortune in the enterprise, andfailed. On the opposite side of the rivera number of extensive mills, propelled bythe water-power of the falls, were built tomanufacture flour for the Baltimore market,but these, too, have been abandoned,and their ruins alone remain to mark theenterprise that construc
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