. 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 . arethe worked inmanufacture theof glass, is quarried and prepared, employingforty men,— the shipment amounting tosome seven thousand tons per annum. Itcontains four churches, one bank, a publichall, and three hotels. Population, Hamilton, one hundred and IN jacks narrows. eighty-eight miles.—Near this place theJuniata
. 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 . arethe worked inmanufacture theof glass, is quarried and prepared, employingforty men,— the shipment amounting tosome seven thousand tons per annum. Itcontains four churches, one bank, a publichall, and three hotels. Population, Hamilton, one hundred and IN jacks narrows. eighty-eight miles.—Near this place theJuniata Valley Camp-Meeting Associationgrounds are located, belonging to the Meth-odists. They are beautifully situated, andthe annual religious gatherings upon themcongregate large numbers of people. Theriver, just above this station, makes a horse-shoe bend, across which the road is cut, 128 THE PENNSYLVANIA AT MILT, CREEK. crossing the river, at the west side of thebend, on a bridge seventy feet above thewater and at a considerable elevation abovethe canal and aqueduct. There are twohotels here. Population, 350. Mount Union, one hundred and ninety-one miles, is the first station in Huntingdoncounty, and is at the entrance into JacksNarrows, made by the river forcing its waythrough Jacks mountain. This gorge iswild and rugged in its appearance, the sidesbeing almost destitute of vegetation, expos-ing immense masses of gray and sombrerock. The mountain receives its name from a weird, mysterious hunter and Indian-slayer, who made his haunts in the valleyprevious to the Revolutionary war. The nar-rows were called, in early colonial records,Jack Andersons Narrows, from the factthat in them an Indian trader, named JohnAnderson, and his two servants, were mur-dered by the savages. Mount Union hasan active business. Among its industriesare an iron furnace, two steam-tanneries,two flour-mills, an
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