Travelers' Railway Guide, Western Section (Formerly the Rand-McNally Railway Guide) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...particularly mountain forests, and the air of this mountain so Invigorating, pure, and dry, are beneficial to pleasure seekers and those requiring relaxation from business cares, as well as those suffering from malaria, insomnia, pulmonary, aud kindred affections The drinking water Is noted for Its purity and mineral properties Among the chief attractions are the walks and drives, revealing eer entine vistas of clustering treee, massed ferns, and ardy brake. Fifty miles of smooth, hard road have been made through the virgin forest, aud are kept in perfect condition New drives are contluually being added, which penetrate to picturesque and hitherto Inaccessible points CETTYSBURCf county scat of Adam- Co., Pa.--Forty-eU'lit miles southwest of HarrUburg. Population 3,495. Railroads--Philadelphia & beading. Western Maryland, separate depots. Buelnew intereMtN--mercantile and agricultural In a Kuod farming district, with deposite of Iron ore and granite In tue vicinity. Is noted as the battle-field of one of the most Important conflicts of the civil war, which Is commemorated by a Xational Cemetery tad numeroiu groupe of appropriate statuary. GREENVILLE, Mercer Co., Pa.-Elghty-flvc mflee northwest of Pittsburgh. Population, 4,814. Railroada--Bessemer & Lake Erie; Erie; PennsylmnlaCompany, neparate depot. Business Intereste--varied. Has some Important manufactories, Including woolen mill and steel tube and eteel hoopIron mill-; aleo the repair simpe of the Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad, The various graine are cultivated, and live stock raised. Coal Ib mined In the vicinity. Seat of Thiel College (Lutheran). HARRI8BURC, county seat of Dauphl n Co., and capital of the State of Pennsylvania.--On Susquehaona River, one hundred and six mil...