. History of the city of Altoona and Blair County : including sketches of the shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. . still engaged. Mr. Sneeringer started in general mer-chandising and retired but a year or two since. In 1852 the firstschool-house and the Methodist E. church were added to the manynew buildings previously erected, and in the following year the Pres-byterian and United Brethren churches were built. ♦Commencing its career as a town In 1849, Tyrone was created ; Kast Tyrone lu 187-3. The name was derived fiorn the Tyrone Iron works»about one mile east of Tyrone.
. History of the city of Altoona and Blair County : including sketches of the shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. . still engaged. Mr. Sneeringer started in general mer-chandising and retired but a year or two since. In 1852 the firstschool-house and the Methodist E. church were added to the manynew buildings previously erected, and in the following year the Pres-byterian and United Brethren churches were built. ♦Commencing its career as a town In 1849, Tyrone was created ; Kast Tyrone lu 187-3. The name was derived fiorn the Tyrone Iron works»about one mile east of Tyrone. 238 HISTORY OF ALTOONA AND BLAIR COUNTY. RAILROAD FACILITIES. The railroad facilities of Tyrone are second to no town of likepopulation in the State, and the early completion of the Tyrone andLewisburg railroad (soon to be effected) makes Tyrone in realitya railroad centre and a point which will be sought after by personswhose inclinations and means would lead them into the manufactur-ing business. Through the courtesy of Capt. C. S. W. Jones, editor of the^Herald, we are able to present a diagram of Tyrone:. « 3 brj k t-i a 3 o ^ o cr. cS ■> ^^ v^ o ^ hJ !^ u c MS tn V- r^ Z o o +J 2 VB^ CS *--_ 1— ^ IS o +^ ^ u ^ O O .-c ^ •^ o o c5 o V. —J o ■+3 -J < p ;l. cc -^ C3 cj C </) •r. i.* 1 ^ I— jiz ^^ ■*- ^ (3 — r. - c; ^ < V. ^o ct i w o 03 • ^—> p •4^ a ci o o « -t-^X Ci H p >5 3 c-i Oj HISTORY OF ALTOONA AND BLAIR COUNTY. 239 TYRONE AND CLEARFILD RAILROAD. In 1853 the Bellefonte Plank road was completed, and in 1856the Tyrone and CleaVtleld railroad Avas commenced, by David , but owing to some difficulties the road was in an incompletecondition until 1860, when the Pennsylvania railroad took charge ofit and soon laid the rails over what is said to be the steepest gradientin the State, and Clearfield county poured its coal and lumber intothe already flourishing borough. NEW DIVISION OF PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. In 1862 the Bal
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