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Roaring Spring was established around the Big Spring, a clean and dependable water source vital to the operation of a paper mill.
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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 is overwhelmingly residential ( 91 percent ) in scale, but also includes churches, stops, professional offices, a municipal building, parks, a cemetery, a book factory complex, and a former railroad station.
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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It was from her that Bret Harte took his famous character of Cherokee Sal in The Luck of Roaring Camp.
Friedrichstraße was Berlin's legendary street during the Roaring Twenties.
Griffith was born in Crestwood, Kentucky to Mary Perkins and Jacob " Roaring Jake " Griffith, who were of Anglo-Welsh ancestry.
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.
During the 1920s, specifically in 1928, the components of the Dow were increased to 30 stocks near the economic height of that decade, which was nicknamed the Roaring Twenties.
He told the attendant he was going surfing at Roaring Beach, but the attendant noted it was a very calm day.
Chicago cabaret focused intensely on the larger band ensembles and reached its peak during Roaring Twenties, under the Prohibition Era, where it was featured in the speakeasies and steakhouses.
It has been suggested that this was a reaction to offence caused by the Governor-General of Canada, Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis who was of Northern Irish descent and who allegedly arranged to have placed symbols of Northern Ireland, notably a replica of the famous Roaring Meg cannon used in the Siege of Derry, in front of Costello at a state dinner.
In October 2010, a plan was revealed to renovate the ailing Resorts Casino Hotel into a Roaring Twenties theme.
It was thinly disguised as " West Egg ," in counterpoint to Manor Haven / Sands Point, which was the inspiration for the more posh " East Egg " ( the next peninsula over on Long Island Sound ), Great Neck symbolized the decadence of the Roaring Twenties as it extended out from New York City to then-remote suburbs.
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, when a tannery existed at the confluence of Roaring Branch and Stony Creek near the center of town, the peak population of 1, 250 was attained.
The house, which was constructed by the Roaring Spring Planing Mill in the old village triangle area, now contains apartments and an attorney's office.
Before 1868, Roaring Spring was called Spang's Mill, a hamlet in Taylor Township situated around a gristmill operated by George B. Spang.
The paper company underwrote the cost of extending a line from Altoona to Roaring Spring where the first telephone was installed in the head office of the mill.
Given the extent and central location of his original holding from the Mill Seat Tract, and the fact that most of the town's pre-1944 building lots are to, Bare's ability to shape the size and extent of development in Roaring Spring was substantial.
Indeed, one of the achievements that D. M. Bare mentioned with pride in his autobiography was the high degree of home ownership that Roaring Spring enjoyed by 1920.
By the mid-19th century, as Roaring Spring was first growing, the regional peculiarities of folk architecture were gradually disappearing under the railroad's and the industrial revolution's influences.
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Four miles ( 6. 4 km ) to the west, they established a settlement in the upper Roaring Fork Valley that eventually took the name Independence from the holiday on which it was established.
The Twin Lakes and Roaring Fork Toll Company, established to build a road through to the camps in the lower Roaring Fork Valley, improved the original path over the pass sufficiently enough by 1880 that horses could be used for the trip.
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* Roaring Brook Lake – A hamlet around Roaring Brook Lake, east of the Taconic State Parkway.
This decorative practice, fairly common on houses built from 1900 to 1920 by the Roaring Spring Planing Mill Co., can be seen in other period buildings around the Morrisons Cove area where the Planing Mill's contractors are known to have worked.
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This one is still in use on the Roaring Camp and Big Trees Narrow Gauge Railroad in Felton, California
WSL Shay No. 7 now operates at the Roaring Camp and Big Trees Narrow Gauge Railroad.
Instead, Roaring Spring's street pattern evolved episodically from a combination of natural topography, pre-existing land tracts, and the confluence of old country roads at the Big Spring.
The Roaring Camp and Big Trees Narrow Gauge Railroad in Felton, California has several operational Shays, a seldom – operated Heisler and a Climax awaiting restoration.
No. 7 Sonora Class C Shay Roaring Camp and Big Trees Narrow Gauge Railroad, Felton, California
Drive side of the Class B Shay locomotive No. 1 Dixiana at the Roaring Camp and Big Trees Narrow Gauge Railroad, Felton, California
The Roaring Camp and Big Trees Narrow Gauge Railroad operates the No. 1 Dixiana ( Class B, s / n 2593 of 1912 ) and the No. 7 Sonora ( Class C, s / n 2465 of 1911 ).
Ruth, Dempsey, Grange, Tilden, and Jones are collectively referred to as the " Big Five " sporting icons of the Roaring Twenties.
Shay locomotive Dixiana at the Roaring Camp and Big Trees Narrow Gauge Railroad, Felton, California, with wooden water tower and extendable spigot visible in the background.
* Rothstein was portrayed by several actors in films: By Robert Lowery in the 1960, The Rise and Fall of " Legs " Diamond ; by David Janssen in the 1961, King of the Roaring 20's-The Story of Arnold Rothstein ( aka The Big Bankroll ); by Michael Lerner in the 1988, Eight Men Out, based on the Black Sox Scandal ; and by F. Murray Abraham, in the 1991 Mobsters.
** Roaring Camp and Big Trees Narrow Gauge Railroad, Felton, California-One switchback, still in use
Next door to the main parking lot is the Roaring Camp and Big Trees Narrow Gauge Railroad.
Additionally, the Mountain Parks Nature Store is open during most park hours, and there is a direct entrance from the park's main parking lot to the grounds of Roaring Camp and Big Trees Railroad.
In 1981, further washouts brought closure of the line from Eblis to Olympia, until the line was purchased by Norman Clark, operator of the narrow gauge Roaring Camp & Big Trees tourist railroad and adjacent 1880s-themed park in Felton.
* Roaring Camp and Big Trees Narrow-Gauge Railroad
The Roaring Camp & Big Trees Railroad is a narrow gauge tourist railroad in California that starts from the Roaring Camp depot in Felton, California and runs up steep grades to the top of nearby Bear Mountain, a distance of 3. 25 miles The travel is through a redwood forest.
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers designated three engines at Roaring Camp and Big Trees Railroad as National Mechanical Engineering Historical Landmark # 134 in 1988.
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