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To the east, the Catfish Road goes through a few miles of sparse farmland, interrupted by a few houses and a monastery, until it intersects Route 36, which leads north to Hollidaysburg and south to Roaring Spring.
Roaring Spring is a borough in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Roaring Spring was established around the Big Spring in Morrison's Cove, a clean and dependable water source vital to the operation of a paper mill.
Prior to 1866, when the first paper mill was built, Roaring Spring had been a grist mill hamlet with a country store at the intersection of two rural roads that lead to the mill near the spring.
" The boundaries of the district essentially include those portions of Roaring Spring Borough which had been laid out for development by the early 1920s.
The village core retains only a few shops and professional offices, but still holds the Roaring Spring Blank Book Company and Roaring Spring Water Bottling Company, all of the historic church buildings, the public library ( formerly the Eldon Inn ), the borough building, the post office ( earlier moved from farther up East Main St .).
The Roaring Spring Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
The Roaring Spring Historic District is located within the Borough of Roaring Spring, a paper-mill town of about 2, 600 established in the late 1860s in southern Blair County, south-central Pennsylvania.
Roaring Spring is situated within the northwest quadrant of a long bowl-like valley known as Morrisons Cove, one of dozens of long but broad valleys in Pennsylvania's Ridge and Valley region.
The site of Roaring Spring is moderately hilly, drained by Cabbage and Halter Creeks.
The most prominent natural feature is the Big Spring, or Roaring Spring, a large natural limestone spring so-called because of the great noise its eight-million-gallon-a-day stream once made rushing out of the hillside near the village center.
Roaring Spring was established around the Big Spring, a clean and dependable water source vital to the operation of a paper mill.
Prior to 1866, when the first paper mill was built, Roaring Spring had been a grist-mill hamlet with a country store at the intersection of two rural roads that lead to the mill near the spring.
" The boundaries of the district essentially include those portions of Roaring Spring Borough which had been laid out for development by the early 1920s.

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Johnson composed the song that is arguably most associated with the Roaring Twenties, " Charleston.
It is sometimes referred to as the Roaring Twenties or the Jazz Age, when speaking about the United States, Canada, or the United Kingdom.
The spaghetti western Four of the Apocalypse is based on " The Outcasts of Poker Flat " and " The Luck of Roaring Camp ".
Roaring River State Park is located in the southern part of the county, amid the Mark Twain National Forest.
Waitiri Station is the major ranch of the Kawarau Gorge and runs from the Bungy Bridge to the Roaring Meg on SH6.
Nucky's Way is the second trolley tour to capitalize off of Boardwalk Empire, after The Great American Trolley company started a weekly tour of Atlantic City with a Roaring Twenties theme in early June 2011.
This one is still in use on the Roaring Camp and Big Trees Narrow Gauge Railroad in Felton, California
Avon is home to Avon High School ; as well as two elementary schools, Pine Grove Elementary and Roaring Brook Elementary ; an intermediate ( grades 5 – 6 ) school, Thompson Brook ; and a middle school ( grades 7 – 8 ), Avon Middle School.
Roaring Brook Falls along the Quinnipiac Trail in the southwest corner of town is Connecticut's tallest single drop waterfall, and is owned by the Cheshire Land Trust.
Chain-O-Lakes is a village in Roaring River Township, Barry County, Missouri, United States.
The Roaring Run Recreation Area is located one mile upriver of Apollo and can be accessed via the Apollo Kiski River Trail.
From there the canal ran along the path of the current Roaring Run Trail, through the entire length of the Borough, entering the Kiskiminetas River again across the river from where the current borough of East Vandergrift is situated.
Also adjoining the park at the west side is the surviving building ( 1904 ) from the Roaring Spring Planing Mill Company.
The mill supplied finished lumber and pre-fabricated building components to area builders, and is credited with constructing most of the housing and other buildings in Roaring Spring.
The Roaring Spring Historic District is locally significant in the areas of architecture, industry and social history as an excellent example of a paternally founded and managed paper-mill town in central Pennsylvania, one whose architecture reflects how the growth of a hometown, family-owned industry stimulated and, in many cases, directed the development patterns and architectural character of the community.
As the town's 50th year history noted: " To write a detailed account of the life and activities of Daniel Mathias Bare is practically equivalent to writing the industrial, and, to a very great extent, the institutional history of Roaring Spring.
Operated as a heating coal and building supply business with a contracting service on the side, the mill is credited with constructing most of the houses and other buildings of note in Roaring Spring between 1887 and the early 1950s.

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In a desire to create more jobs in 1887, Bare co-founded the Roaring Spring Blank Book Company, which became a primary customer for his paper, and later generated electrical current for residential service until the 1920s.
Architecturally, the commercial, industrial, institutional, and residential character of Roaring Spring town retains an integrity that accurately conveys the developmental evolution of the community between 1821 and 1944.

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During the Roaring ' 20s, AISI statistics showed that the United States produced 40 percent of the world's supply of iron and steel.

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He also had a great interest in ferryboats, at his fiancee's suggestion, their marriage was performed on the Roaring Bull boat, part of the Millersburg Ferry, in the middle of the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania.
The Roaring Twenties brought a sustained period of economic prosperity principally to North America, but also to London, Berlin and Paris, with the end of the Depression of 1920-21 in the U. S. and a robust American economy.
Visitors also engage in nearby skiing ( both alpine and cross-country ), biking or hiking to the waterfalls, streams and lakes in the area, including nearby Falls of the McCloud River, Burney Falls, Mossbrae Falls, Lake Siskiyou, Castle Lake and Shasta Lake, or visiting the ruins of one of the great nightclubs or speakeasies from the heyday of the Roaring Twenties.
Master builders and carpenters like Williams, guided by patrons like D. H. Bare who also helped underwrite the Methodist church, determined the look of Roaring Spring's architecture rather than professional architects.
This can be seen in numerous calypsos of the early to mid-1930s, from Roaring Lion and Attila the Hun in particular, who also recorded in New York at the time.
She also appeared in The Roaring Twenties ( 1939 ), The Way of All Flesh ( 1940 ), The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ) and He Ran All the Way ( 1951 ).
It was also a result of the cultural shifts and modernizing trends of the Roaring 20s, culminating in the presidential campaign of Al Smith.
Rowbotham, Bowers and Joyce went on to form The Mothmen ( the latter two becoming members of Simply Red some years later ), Sharp went on to form The Roaring 80s, SF Jive, and Glow, and also dedicated himself to acting ; only Reilly remained.
Roaring Lion was also a major part of this vanguard in calypso music, and he became known for a traditionalist style that he maintained throughout his career.
Round-the-world sailors also take advantage of the Roaring Forties to speed travel times, in particular those involved in record attempts or races.
She also made guest appearances on TV shows including The Roaring Twenties, Wagon Train, Tales of Wells Fargo, 87th Precinct, Surfside 6, Hawaiian Eye, It's a Man's World, Laramie.
In 1925, Reynolds founded another golf course, Roaring Gap, about an hour away from Winston-Salem and also designed by Ross.
Like other progrock acts, beside treating environmental issues the band also issued concept albums on space and sci-fi themes ( particularly Solar Fire, a minor resurgence of which was seen in the songs Launching place off The Good Earth, and Starbird, based upon Igor Stravinski's ballet The Firebird, on The Roaring Silence ) and a number of their songs featured religious or biblical imagery ( Prayer on the band's debut album, Buddah on Messin, Dylan's Father of day, father of night and In the beginning, darkness on Solar Fire, The road to Babylon and This side of paradise on The Roaring Silence, Resurrection on Angel Station ).
The first act takes place during an impending ice age, in the second act the family circumstances have changed as George becomes president of the Fraternal Order of Mammals ( apparent references to Sodom and Gomorrah but also to the Roaring Twenties ), and the end of the world approaches a second time ; the third act opens with Maggie and Gladys emerging from a bunker at the end of a seven-year-long war.
During his career in music, Norum has also played with Eddie Meduza & The Roaring Cadillacs, Dokken, Don Dokken's solo band, as well as collaborations with other well-known artists in his solo albums, including Glenn Hughes, Kelly Keeling, Peter Baltes, Simon Wright and Göran Edman.
Notable Red Spruce forests can be seen at Gaudineer Scenic Area, a virgin red spruce forest located in West Virginia, the Canaan Valley, Roaring Plains West Wilderness, Dolly Sods Wilderness, Spruce Mountain and Spruce Knob all also in West Virginia and all sites of former extensive Red Spruce forest.
The resort also features quick snack eateries, including Roaring Fork Snacks, Territory Lounge, and Trout Pass.
During the lifetime of Yi Sun-sin, the strait was also known as ' Uldolmok ,' or ' the Roaring Channel ,' most likely due to the powerful tidal forces in the channel, which were especially loud in spring.
Roaring Camp and its two railroads host numerous events throughout the year, and is also home to a Chuckwagon Bar-B-Q and events facilities.
The English shoegaze band Curve also recorded a version of the song for Ruby Trax: The NME's Roaring Forty in 1992.

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