. History and government of Pennsylvania. A supplement to Elementary American history and government by James Albert Woodburn and Thomas Francis Moran . ed in bridges, turnpike roads on which toll was charged, andin a system of canals, designed to connect the rivers of thestate with one another and with the Great Lakes. In order tohelp these projects the state frequently invested in large blocksof stock. These were often poor investments and the peopleand the state lost much money. Later state money was alsoinvested in railroads. The first turnpike in the country was the Old Lancaster Pike,bui
. History and government of Pennsylvania. A supplement to Elementary American history and government by James Albert Woodburn and Thomas Francis Moran . ed in bridges, turnpike roads on which toll was charged, andin a system of canals, designed to connect the rivers of thestate with one another and with the Great Lakes. In order tohelp these projects the state frequently invested in large blocksof stock. These were often poor investments and the peopleand the state lost much money. Later state money was alsoinvested in railroads. The first turnpike in the country was the Old Lancaster Pike,built in 1792. One of the earliest bridges is the one over Nes-haminy Creek in Edisonville, Bucks County, built in first public canal in the country was commenced in 1792 atNorristown and was intended to connect the Delaware andSchuylkill Rivers. During the period from 1791 to 1828, overtwenty-two million dollars were expended by the state and bycorporations on internal improvements. Railroads. The first railway in the United States was builtin 1809 by Thomas Leiper from his quarries near Swarthmore HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA 33. 34 ELEMENTARY HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT to Ridley Creek. In 1823 a railroad was chartered to run fromPhiladelphia to Columbia. The first trains were drawn byhorses and the cars were drawn up the hills by stationary engineswhich wound up the ropes to which the cars were success of inventors and mechanics in developing locomo-tives soon resulted in the substitution of railroads for Reading Railroad was begun in 1833, and tapped the greatanthracite region in the eastern part of the state. To-day 12,000 miles of railroadbring every part of thestate within a few hourstravel of the centers ofpopulation. Minerals; Iron. Ironwas the earliest mineralto be manufactured inthe state. In 1812, itwas found possible to useanthracite in the produc-tion of pig iron. Thevast deposits of limestoneand rich iron ore soon gavethe state
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