The Pennsylvania-German : devoted to the history, biography, genealogy, poetry, folk-lore and general interests of the Pennsylvania Germans and their descendants . tons,and the pond belonging to it covers 45acres. ]\Iost of this ice is shipped toPhiladelphia, whose people thus get in asolidified form some of the water of thePerkionien, which some years ago theywanted to lead down to their city throughpipes for household use. The means of transportation in theearly days here as elsewhere were thestao^e-coach for travelers and the big, drivers forty years ago. But these vehi-cles, so serv iceabl
The Pennsylvania-German : devoted to the history, biography, genealogy, poetry, folk-lore and general interests of the Pennsylvania Germans and their descendants . tons,and the pond belonging to it covers 45acres. ]\Iost of this ice is shipped toPhiladelphia, whose people thus get in asolidified form some of the water of thePerkionien, which some years ago theywanted to lead down to their city throughpipes for household use. The means of transportation in theearly days here as elsewhere were thestao^e-coach for travelers and the big, drivers forty years ago. But these vehi-cles, so serv iceable in their day. have longbeen superseded by better means of trans-portation. The Xorth Penn or Deihle-hem branch of the Reading Railroad,connecting South Bethlehem with Phila-delphia, traverses a corner of the Per-kionien Region, but the latters main ar-tery of communication is the PerkionienRailroad, opened in 1875. This road,which was chartered in iS^»5 and built ata cost of $2,887, runs from Per-kionien Junction to Allentown. a distanceof 43 miles. At Emaus a junction ismade with the East Penn Road. On thisroad four trains now run daily each ;.*,^»«yx^^^j^^-i:-^ •^!^^*S THE OLD CIIIUCH. IN 174:5 lumbering Conestoga wagon for the pro-duce of the farm and the manufacturedgoods obtained in exchanged therefor inthe city. The Conestoga wagon wasthe older ilistitution. In the 50s andearly 60s of the last century Treichlers-ville, now Hereford, was a great centreof stage-coach travel, its lines radiatingto Trexlertown, lioyertown, , North Wales and otherpoints. The stage-coach in those dayscarried Uncle Sams mail, which was ex-changed at the post-ottices along the waywhile the passengers waited. Daniel andHenry Kehs, twin brothers, the formerstill living at Hereford, were noted stage- Its conductors seem to know all tiie pevvple who come aboard, the little childrenas well as their parents, and have a smileand a pleasant
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