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The railroad, a Dartmouth College-owned pottery studio ( in the house once owned by Dr. Joseph Lewis ), and a small road off McKenna Road, Lewiston Hill Road, make up some of the area where the center of the village of Lewiston was situated.
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Winfield's storied and colorful history includes ( in addition to railroad operations ) coal mining, brick and pottery mfg., and the famous Winfield Truck Stop.
Starting in 1892, with Thomas Moran, Simpson would exchange travel on the train, along with lodging at railroad hotels and meals at railroad restaurants, and even sometimes cash, for paintings, photographs, pottery, and jewelry.
railroad and studio
Filmed in November 1903 at Edison's New York studio, at Essex County Park in New Jersey, and along the Lackawanna railroad.
During its production the studio used so many trains that a railroad operating permit was required from the Interstate Commerce Commission.
The first designs of the little park across from the studio included a live steam railroad that circled the park, a design feature which was retained in each iteration and was built around the finished product in Anaheim.
In 1943 Robert R. Young, a railroad magnate who also owned the American Pathé film processing laboratory, acquired the studio.
In Autumn 1918, MacDonald travelled to Algoma in a specially outfitted railroad car that functioned as a mobile studio.
railroad and house
The wood is also made into railroad ties, mine timbers, house logs, posts and poles, flooring, pulp, and furniture.
The " cape " in the county name was a rock promontory overlooking the Mississippi River and Claire's house the original cape rock was destroyed by railroad construction.
The river town of Baltimore thrived and was a major center of trade until the river was overshadowed by the railroad for purposes of trade and transportation ; a single house, built long after the town's heyday, is all that remains.
On November 7, 1895, fire destroyed every business and house located on the east side of the railroad.
In 1866, the railroad actually built the train station between Folsom Boulevard and the tracks that still exists as Pfingst Realty ( Mr. Pfingst died in 2007, and the structure is owned by his daughter ), due to the size and dependability of the crop, and the need for a formal packing shed to house the produce waiting for the train.
Brooklyn, present day Iron City, had a big two story hotel that was used to house the railroad crews.
It was named for Lorenzo J. Firth, an English emigrant, who gave land for the railroad section house and water tank ; the railroad named the station for him in 1903.
The first structures within the limits of the new town were two little half-sod and half-board dugouts which served as depot, freight house, and shelter for railroad section hands ; this is one of the very few mentions of sod houses in McLean County.
A small house and blacksmith shop was built south of the railroad.
Wheelock, railroad employees, who moved into the new station house to conduct business.
The simple board and battan railroad station is clearly visible Perhaps the most striking structure is a stone tank house topped with a windmill.
Mounds had a round house and maintenance jobs associated with the railroad.
In January 1855, Joseph D. Warner, who was the first railroad station agent, finished his house on South Elida Street.
In 1882, the other railroad that crossed through Norwalk Township, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, built a station house, erected a water tank and laid a switch.
An interurban railroad soon allowed for commuting to Downtown Louisville, and the first year-round house was built by Annie and Stuart Duncan in 1908.
Jenny Berry was probably the first teacher in a small log house on the river flats on the west side of town, near the railroad bridge.
This building was called a “ section house ” because that is what a house built for railroad crew was termed at that time.
Mrs. Anna Bufkin was a member of one of the first families to live in the section house as her husband was one that helped grade and build that part of the railroad in Purvis.
The frame structure could house up to 500 guests, who were transported from the depot via an electric railroad.
A railroad section house was built at this location.
Buildings to house new arrivals were hastily constructed south of the tracks, while commercial buildings and hotels were planted close to the hub of railroad activities.
There was a section house built that served as a depot and post office, situated about where Hobo Hill is, or near the center of the present railroad yards east of Laurel.
The Webster Citizens Company ice house stood on the west shore of the Upper Lake with a three car rail siding to serve it, and was listed as a railroad business as late as 1931.
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If laying ties on a railroad track, which he once did for $1 an hour, paid more than playing right field for the Yankees, Maris would lay ties on a railroad track.
The national railroad system, once the country's main mode of transport for freight, has been neglected in favor of road development and now accounts for only about a quarter of freight transport.
The amount of land in native hands rapidly depleted from some to a small by 1900, as the remainder of the land once allotted to appointed natives was declared surplus and sold to non-native settlers as well as railroad and other large corporations, and was also converted into federal parks and military compounds.
For this reason, once the railroad from Mombasa to Kampala was completed early in the protectorate period, relations with Kenya became the government's most significant foreign concern.
A significant growth in tin work occurred, though, once the railroad opened.
The town of Port Leon was once a thriving cotton-shipping hub, with a railroad that carried over 50, 000 tons of cotton a year to be put on ships, usually for shipment direct to Europe.
Armagh once had a well-developed railroad network with connections to, among others, Armagh City, Culloville, Goraghwood, Markethill, Vernersbridge, Tynan ( see History of rail transport in Ireland ) but today only Newry ( Bessbrook ), Portadown, Poyntzpass, Scarva, and Lurgan are served by rail.
Automobile traffic became increasingly important once the Dixie Highway located through the county, largely running parallel with the railroad tracks, during the 1920s.
There was once over 1, 000 miles ( 1600 km ) of railroad track in Schuylkill County.
The city was also once home to a large railroad car manufacturing factory operated by Pullman Standard for many decades and later Trinity Industries, but the plant ceased most production in the 1990s, though other industries have relocated to this facility.
) Davis was beginning to treat McClellan almost as a protégé, and his next assignment was to assess the logistical readiness of various railroads in the United States, once again with an eye toward planning for the transcontinental railroad.
Part of what was once Route 66 still runs directly through Ash Fork, though as a divided highway, with Park Avenue running east and Lewis Avenue running west, both serving as a main thoroughfare .. A few historic buildings, including a false front structure and some old railroad company houses can be seen along these.
In the 1960s, when agriculture was no longer the economic base it had once been for the city and the railroad, the train depot was torn down.
U. S. Highway 99 ( demoted to State Route 99 in the 1960s ), once a main road north and south through town, running parallel to the railroad, was rebuilt as a freeway in the 1960s.
This farming community once was a thriving little town that boasted a general store with a gas pump, a sawmill, a railroad depot with loading ramps for crops to be loaded, a church & cemetery, dance hall, turpentine still, and a railroad section foreman with a crew to keep the tracks fixed.
Seffner's post office was opened in 1884, once a new railroad line in the area had been planned.
The settlers in the vicinity of " The Lodge " were largely isolated during the Civil War, but the area rebounded once peace was re-established, and a population boom followed the construction of railroad lines through the region.
In addition there is an abandoned railroad spur owned by the Florida Midland Railroad that once led to Leesburg, but now runs along Sumter County Road 44A and was the home for some abandoned freight cars until some point in the first decade of the 21st Century.
Fairburn is located along a railroad line and was once the county seat for Campbell County, Georgia, starting in 1870.
As the railroad era passed the old depot was closed and boarded up, and the once central location was only a side street.
Screven was once the largest town in the county because of its association with the railroad.
The architecture of the small city gives the impression that it once displayed a vibrant little downtown ; this is perhaps due to the once-booming railroad system that still rumbles through Cohutta.
The railroad company had 16 locomotives and 300 train cars working between Logan, Utah and the once quiet stage stop.
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