A “ Mine Dump ” is shown adjacent to the Montour Railroad tracks and South Park Road.

The Montour Railroad Company was chartered in 1877 as a wholly owed subsidiary of the Imperial Coal Company.

The first segment constructed extended from the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad line at Montour Junction, near Coraopolis, Pennsylvania to the Imperial Coal Company mines at Imperial, Pennsylvania.

The Montour Railroad became an important feeder line and eventually all five major truck carriers in the southwestern Pennsylvania market were linked to the Montour Railroad.

In 1946 the Pittsburgh Coal Company sold the Montour Railroad to the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad ( a subsidiary of the New York Central Railroad ), who operated it jointly.

The P & LE acquired sole control of the Montour Railroad in 1975.

The Montour Railroad had passenger service in its early years from 15 stations along its route, but passenger service was abandoned by the mid 1920s.

The Montour Railroad was down to just 23 miles of track between Montour Junction and Gilmore Junction when operations ceased in 1984 with the closing of the Westland Coal mine, the Montour ’ s last remaining major customer.

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By 1813 the area once comprising the sprawling county of Northumberland had been divided over time and allotted to other counties such that lands once occupied by Old Northumberland at its greatest extent are now found in Centre, Columbia, Luzerne, Lycoming, Mifflin, Union, Clearfield, Clinton, Montour, Bradford, Lackawanna, Susquehanna, Wyoming, Tioga, Potter, McKean, Warren, Venango, Snyder, and Schuylkill Counties and the current county is but a fraction of its former size.

Montour County is located in the U. S. state of Pennsylvania.

It is named for Andrew Montour, a prominent métis interpreter who served with George Washington during the French and Indian War.

Montour is a city in Tama County, Iowa, United States.

Montour is located at ( 41. 980506 ,-92. 715618 ).

The town is one of two in the county named after Catherine Montour, despite the variation in spelling of the name.

Montour is a town in Schuyler County, New York, United States.

The town is one of two towns in the county named after Catherine Montour.

The Town of Montour is in the south part of the county and is north of Elmira, New York.

The town was first settled around 1794 near the current village of Montour Falls, which is named after a waterfall at the edge of the village, called by the natives " Che-qua-gah ," or " roaring water.

* Montour Falls ( formerly " Havana ") – Most of the Village of Montour Falls is at the west town line.

Montour Falls is a village in Schuyler County, New York, United States.

The name " Montour " is derived from Queen Catharine Montour of the Senecas www. schuylerhistory. org / Queen_Catharine_Montour. pdf.

The Village of Montour Falls is mostly within the Town of Montour, but a small part in within the Town of Dix.

Shequaga Falls overlooks the town of Montour Falls The main attraction is a 150 ' waterfall located on the west side of the village.

Montour Falls is located at ( 42. 349209 ,-76. 846450 ).

The Village of Odessa is in western side of the Town of Catharine near the town line and is shared with the Town of Montour.

It is located in the Montour School District, which educates the children of Kennedy Township, Robinson Township, Pennsbury Village, Thornburg, and the borough of Ingram.

Berwick is one of two principal cities of the Bloomsburg – Berwick Micropolitan Statistical Area, a micropolitan area that covers Columbia and Montour counties and had a combined population of 82, 387 at the 2000 census.

Of 20 Shares: 4 shares: McTavish ; 3 shares: Joseph Frobisher ; 2 shares: Patrick Small, Nicholas Montour, Robert Grant ; 1 share: McBeath, Peter Pond, Holms ; former Gregory & McLeod members with 1 share each: John Gregory, Norman McLeod, Peter Pangman, Alexander MacKenzie.

The road crosses a Canadian Pacific railroad line before heading across the Susquehanna River, at which point the road becomes Rupert Drive and heads into Montour Township.

When the railroad came near, he moved his store to it and thus started the first business in Montour ( at this time called Orford ).

In 1944 Montour reported 159 million ton-miles of revenue freight ; at the end of that year it operated 50 miles of road and 84 miles of track.

On April 3, 1769, Andrew Montour, an Indian interpreter who had provided service to English settlers during the French and Indian War, was granted a land patent for approximately of what would later become the borough of Coraopolis and Neville Island.

On April 3, 1769, Andrew Montour, an Indian interpreter who had provided service to the English settlers during the French and Indian War, was granted one of the first land patents for approximately of what later became the borough of Coraopolis and Neville Island.

Coraopolis has a history replete with the names found on the borough's street signs ; names like Montour, Vance, Ferree, McCabe, Neely and Watson.

Montour was founded near the villages of Insdian Village and Butlerville on the east side of Indian Creek upon the elevated bench on the south side of the Iowa River around 1864.

The Council members are Barbara Allan who filled a vacancy in 2004, John Keis filled a vacancy in 2006 and served on the Planning Commission from 1991 to 2004, Rick Montour who joined the Council in 2001 after serving on the Planning Commission from 1996 to 2000, and Michael McGraw who was appointed by the mayor, Blesener, after overriding a 2: 2 vote by the city council members.

* Montour Falls – A small part of the Village of Montour Falls, located on NY-14.

The Brick Tavern Stand and Montour Falls Historic District are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Odessa voters rejected a proposal to dissolve the village into the surrounding towns of Catharine and Montour in a vote on December 7, 2010.

The Village of Watkins Glen lies on the border of the towns of Dix and Montour.

The island was formerly known as Montour's Island, named for the Native American interpreter Andrew Montour, who lived on the land in colonial times.

Danville is a borough in Montour County, Pennsylvania, USA, of which it is the county seat, on the North Branch of the Susquehanna River.

A local marker claims that the first T-rail rolled in the United States was rolled in Danville, on October 8, 1845 at the Montour Iron Company, though this is claimed for Mount Savage, Maryland, as well.

A year later he and Montour began aiding Virginia by guiding its scout Christopher Gist on a tour of Ohio Indian villages.

In the June 1752 conference at Logstown, Croghan was on the Indian Council and Andrew Montour acted as translator.

With Montour at his side and in command of 100 Indians on an overlooking hilltop, Croghan witnessed in July, 1758 General James Abercrombie's calamitous frontal assault on Fort Ticonderoga.

" More recently, on 9 July 2008, Dan Onorato, Chief Executive of Allegheny County, announced a planned development of a sports and recreation park that covers area near Pittsburgh in Coraopolis, Robinson, and Moon known as Montour Junction.

At the age of 94, Queen Catharine Montour died on February 20, 1804.

Washington indeed referred to himself as " Conotocaurious " in a letter he wrote to Andrew Montour dated October 10, 1755, in which he entreated the Oneida to resettle on the Potomac:

At this point, PA 42 heads northeast concurrent with US 11 on four-lane divided Montour Boulevard, crossing the Fishing Creek into Bloomsburg.

Immediately after, the route splits from US 11 at another interchange, heading northwest on four-lane divided Mall Boulevard and crossing the Fishing Creek back into Montour Township.