. 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 . which, looking north-east-wardly, glimpses of the Conewago valleyand hills are seen. This creek forms theboundary between Lancaster and Dauphincounties. MiDDLETOWN, ninety-five and one-halfmiles.—First station in Dauphin county,and point of junction of the Harrisburg andLancaster and Columbia Railroads. Mid-dletown is an activ
. 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 . which, looking north-east-wardly, glimpses of the Conewago valleyand hills are seen. This creek forms theboundary between Lancaster and Dauphincounties. MiDDLETOWN, ninety-five and one-halfmiles.—First station in Dauphin county,and point of junction of the Harrisburg andLancaster and Columbia Railroads. Mid-dletown is an active, enterprising place, anda large trade is centred here. Among otherindustries it contains two furnaces, car-works,iron-works, boat-yards, paint-works, andsaw-mills, employing together a large num-ber of men. Iron ore and mineral paintare mined in the vicinity, and a very ex-tensive business is done in lumber. It haseight churches, a large public hall, andseveral good hotels. The Emaus Institute,devoted to the education of poor orphanchildren, who are to be carefully trained inthe doctrines of the Evangelical LutheranChurch, is located here. This institutionowes its existence to the liberality of GeorgeFrey, a citizen of Middletown, whose life MIDDLETOWivr. 101. CONEWAGO BRIDGE. was marked with considerable true name was Everhart, and, a poorGerman lad, he commenced his career hereas a farm laborer. When he had accumu-lated a little money he purchased a stock oftrinkets, and started up the Susquehanna riverto trade with the Indians. Passing theBlue mountain—then the frontier of the whitesettlements—he wasarrestedby some soldiersas a runaway redemptioner (a servantwho had been sold for a time to pay his passage from Europe). In his brokenlanguage he declared to the soldiers,- Ich bin frcy ! and finally convinced them that he was free. Locatinghimself at Fort Hunter, where he be-came a favorite, the name of Freywas given him, and by it he was afterwardsknown. He
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