History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania . - at the presenttime, began the manufacture of carriages, etc., at the west side of Fourthstreet between Arch and Eace in 1839, retiring in 1870. The shop, a framebuilding one hundred feet long, was then leased to William Fetter twoyears, after which the business was discontinued. Francis Lerch established the carriage works at the southwest corner ofFourth and Chestnut in 1870. They were jrarchased in 1S74 by H. & Company, who disposed of the plant in 1890 to Isaac Furman, thepresent proprietor. J. S. Seasholtz began the manufacture of
History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania . - at the presenttime, began the manufacture of carriages, etc., at the west side of Fourthstreet between Arch and Eace in 1839, retiring in 1870. The shop, a framebuilding one hundred feet long, was then leased to William Fetter twoyears, after which the business was discontinued. Francis Lerch established the carriage works at the southwest corner ofFourth and Chestnut in 1870. They were jrarchased in 1S74 by H. & Company, who disposed of the plant in 1890 to Isaac Furman, thepresent proprietor. J. S. Seasholtz began the manufacture of carriages on Market street, East. SCXBUEY. -489 Sunbury, in 187], at a frame building now used as a dwelling house. In1SS6 the present frame shop was built. H. L. Haucks carriage works, near Market street, East Simbury, com-prise a two-story frame building twenty by eighty-five feet in dimensions,erected in 1887. •J. S. Stroh & Brothers carriage works are the latest addition to thisbranch of local industry. The business was begun by J. S. Stroh inchviduallyin the spring of 1890; two frame buildings, twenty-eight by forty andtwenty-four by thirty, respectively, were erected later in the same year. Boat Building first attained the proportions of a distinct industry atSunbury during the construction of the Shamokin dam. when differentvarieties of water craft were in demand for the transportation of stone andother materials. After the opening of the canal the construction of canalboats was first begim by Charles Gussler, who established a yard at the bankof the river immediately south of Spruce street and continued
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