Description: Northern Cambria, Pennsylvania, Images of America, Paperback Northern Cambria is not only the upper region ofCambria County, it is also the new name of twocentury-old villages, Barnesboro and Spangler, that havemerged to become a millennium entity.Located high in the Allegheny Mountains of westernPennsylvania, the region was once covered by virginforests. In time, the dense acreage led to the developmentof numerous sawmills, from which logs were floated all theway downriver to what was then the lumbering capital ofthe world, Williamsport. Miles of scenic farmland werecleared and cultivated.Then, in the mid-1800s, rich coal veins were foundbeneath the Cambrian hills. As word of this discoveryspread, mines opened throughout the region. Within ashort time, immigrants from far and near streamed intothe region to work in the mines. Soon, rail lines wereconstructed to serve the coal fields. High school graduatesbecame miners and dubbed the mines "Dust College."Coal had become king.
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MPN: 9780738504155
Book Title: Northern Cambria
Item Length: 9.2in
Item Height: 0.3in
Item Width: 6.5in
Author: Sr. Anne Frances Pulling
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Features: Reprint
Topic: Subjects & Themes / Regional (See Also Travel / Pictorials), United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Pictorials (See Also Photography / Subjects & Themes / Regional), United States / General
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Publication Year: 2000
Genre: Photography, Travel, History
Item Weight: 0.7 Oz
Number of Pages: 128 Pages
