. Pennsylvania Railroad System ... a description of its main lines and branches, with notes of the historical events which have taken place in the territory contiguous .. . in 1755, from whichthe town takes its name. To the north of Halifax, Berrys Mountainshuts out the view to the northeast. On the west bank of the river thewide-spreading valley of the Juniata extends to where the green ridge ofthe Tuscarora Mountain shuts off the view to the west. Millersburg, in a deep valley between Berrys Mountain and Ma-hantongo Mountain, at the mouth of Wiconisco Creek, is the junctionpoint with the Lyk
. Pennsylvania Railroad System ... a description of its main lines and branches, with notes of the historical events which have taken place in the territory contiguous .. . in 1755, from whichthe town takes its name. To the north of Halifax, Berrys Mountainshuts out the view to the northeast. On the west bank of the river thewide-spreading valley of the Juniata extends to where the green ridge ofthe Tuscarora Mountain shuts off the view to the west. Millersburg, in a deep valley between Berrys Mountain and Ma-hantongo Mountain, at the mouth of Wiconisco Creek, is the junctionpoint with the Lykens Valley Railroad, built away back in 1834 to bringthe coal of the rich mineral mountains at the headwaters of the creek tothe canal at Millersburg. Liverpool, the station being on the east bank of the river and thetown on the west bank, is also one of the old towns of mid-Pennsylvania,having been laid out in 1806. Three miles north of Liverpool the railroadcurves around the foot of Mahantongo Mountain, one of the ridges of theBroad Mountain section. The river between Mahantongo and Berrysmountains is over a mile broad, having the appearance of a vast inland SUSQUEHANNA RIVER ABOVE HARRISBURG Herndon is a town which has grown up through the development ofthe coal industry. Laid out in 1850, and named in honor of LieutenantHerndon, of the United States Navy, who lost his life with his ship in theGulf of Mexico, it is to-day one of the most prosperous of the smallertowns in the Susquehanna Valley. Selinsgrove Junction is the junction with the branch extending through•a broad valley from the Susquehanna to the Juniata at Lewistown. Thetown of Selinsgrove has always been an important trading center for theregion round about. Here is located Susquehanna University. Sunbury, at the junction of the north and west branches of the Sus-quehanna, first, as the Indian village of Shamokin, then as Fort Augusta,one of the most important posts of defense in the Susquehanna valley,
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