Reminiscences of Plymouth, Luzerne County, Penna.; a pen picture of the old landmarks of the town; the names of old residents; the manners, customs and descriptive scenes, and incidents of its early history . e miners were at work,where the team would be turned and the wagon loadedand then driven to the river bank, the coal to be loadedinto canal boats. I have often ridden into this mine inthe wagons and watched the operations, my father beingthe operator of the mine. Coming back down the road, about half way to theold mill, is a bridge leading to a road which runs pastthe school house on Temp
Reminiscences of Plymouth, Luzerne County, Penna.; a pen picture of the old landmarks of the town; the names of old residents; the manners, customs and descriptive scenes, and incidents of its early history . e miners were at work,where the team would be turned and the wagon loadedand then driven to the river bank, the coal to be loadedinto canal boats. I have often ridden into this mine inthe wagons and watched the operations, my father beingthe operator of the mine. Coming back down the road, about half way to theold mill, is a bridge leading to a road which runs pastthe school house on Temperance Hill. Turningabruptly to the left, on the right hand side of the road-way was the residence of Henry Massaker, and thencame a stone house, the residence of William Dennis, anold and respected resident, who gave the locality thename it now bears. A little beyond, was another stonebuilding, the residence of Richard Egbertson where helived for many years and where afterwards resided hisson Henderson, who was a painter. Richard Egbertsonwas a stone mason and plasterer by trade, and withal, Iused to think a very wonderful fisherman. He could sta-tion himself on the river bank where no one else would. Reminiscences of Plymouth, Pa. 37 think of fishing, cast in his lines, and invariably catch abig string of large fish. The manner of plastering ahouse in those days, before plastering laths were in-vented, was to tack a thin board on the ceiling or side ofthe room to be plastered, and then with a hatchet andwooden wedge, make interstices in the board to receiveand hold the plaster. Evidences of this method may stillbe found in the old buildings. Passing on, beyond the school house was a row ofred houses, story and a half high, where lived GeorgePuterbaugh and Wesley Lewis. Some distance furtheron, on the corner of Davenport Street and Shawnee Ave-nue, stood the mansion house, with its spacious groundsand towering elms of Robert Davenport one of the earl-iest residents of Plymouth
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