. 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 . s. Benzinger, one hundred and fifty-fivemiles. St. Marys, one hundred and fifty-ninemiles, is a flourishing borough in Elk county,near the summit dividing the waters of theeast and west. It was settled about 1840,by a German Catholic colony under thepatronage of the St. Benedictine Society,and was, up to the building of the rail
. 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 . s. Benzinger, one hundred and fifty-fivemiles. St. Marys, one hundred and fifty-ninemiles, is a flourishing borough in Elk county,near the summit dividing the waters of theeast and west. It was settled about 1840,by a German Catholic colony under thepatronage of the St. Benedictine Society,and was, up to the building of the railroad,exclusively of one nationality and opening of that improvement intro-duced new elements in the population andadded materially to its prosperity; but thepreponderance of German Catholics is stillmaintained, and as a centre of Catholicismit occupies a prominent rank. The towncontains an imposing monastery, with whichis connected St. Gregorys College, a nun-nery, and an academy, enjoying a high repu-tation, in charge of the Benedictine surrounding country is well cultivated,and is underlaid with bituminous coal, whichis mined and shipped to the extent of aboutone hundred thousand tons annually, em-ploying two hundred men. Lumbering is. DAGUSCAITONDA—SIIAWMUT—RIDCiWAV—, ETC. 907 extensively prosecuted in the vicinity, andthese industries sustain an active mercantiletrade. Among the prominent industries ofthe place are two foundries and machine-shoi)s, three grist-mills, a planing-mill, twofurniiure factories, six breweries, and twowagon-making shops. The town containsthree churches, good public schools, fivepublic halls, a bank, and some six or sevenhotels. Population, 1084. A tri-weeklystage runs from St. Marys to Brookville,distance forty miles. Daguscahonda, one hundred and sixty-five miles.—Lumbering and coal-mining arecarried on in this locality, the shipment ofcoal amounting to about one hundred andfifty tons per day, employi
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