August 2011 #130 by Punxsutawney Hometown Magazine

Punx’y’s Campbell Family in Peace and War On the cover: Liam enjoys a day on the farm! Cover photo by Breanne Peiffer Photography

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fter President Lincoln’s call for volunteers in the spring of 1861 to fight the Confederates, there was a fervor among men to organize into units to enter service for their country. By early 1862, it was evident the battle between the States wasn’t going to be a short war. The Union Army had suffered tremendous losses. The task to finish the war would take longer than the expected three months originally thought when the first call to arms was given. When soldiers were being recruited, Jefferson County was a rural county with small villages and farmland, sparsely settled with land yet to be cleared. Many of those men enlisting were lumbermen, some were farmers. There would be shopkeepers, too. Punxsutawney (with Clayville nearby) would have an adult population of nearly 200. The surrounding townships would include an additional 700 taxable people. Many of the volunteers for the conflict would be under the age of 21. With town meeting after town meeting being called to form the local volunteers, things were changing in the small towns and across the countryside. Family members had to make a choice. Two of William and Martha Campbell’s sons were among the able-bodied boys and men from Punxsutawney who joined the fight. The oldest son, Thaddeus, would stay home to work with his elderly father in rafting and at the foundry located on land where the Mahoning East Civic Center is today. The second oldest, George S. (age 30), and the youngest son, William F. (age 17), would enlist. George was already well-known in Punxsutawney for his two-year adventure to California for gold in 1850, at age 18, with Charles Wood and Frank Mundorff. In July 1861, he enlisted in Company I, 62nd Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers and served three years in the position of QuartermasterSergeant. His first action was the defense of Washington D. C. in September,

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to be followed by action in such battles and sieges as Yo r k t o w n , Gaines Mills, Bull Run, the Wi l d e r n e s s and Gettysburg. He would muster out in 1864 and return to work at his father’s store and lumbering. Later he would have his own store on South Jef- In contrast to Gettysburg’s ferson Street Pennsylvania Memorial that is visited by many people, Capnear the park. tain Little is buried near a huge William F. oak tree in the North Findley C a m p b e l l ’s Street Cemetery. His grave is war story marked with a modest tombstone. A victim of time and was much weather after 147 years, it more adven- rarely has visitors. (Photo by turous. He S. Thomas Curry) enlisted in the summer of 1861 as a private, in Company A of the well-known 105th Pennsylvania Volunteers. He fought in the

unit’s early battles until June 30th, 1862, the sixth day of the Battle at Charles City - Continued on page 4

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Exchange Program in Pakistan, has been a Rotarian for 18 years. While visiting the high school, he gave a presentation to a World Cultures summer school class about Pakistan and his city, Karachi. He said, "I felt honored to get to share our culture in Pakistan with the students." About his overall experience, he demonstrated admiration for Brian for all his hard work in making this possible. He said, "this was an experience of a lifetime, and the environment of Punxsutawney is excellent." Dr. Khan, a gynecologist at the Aga Khan University Hospital, said she was "quite nervous coming here because of the negative perceptions people may have on them from what they hear about in the news. However, she said, "everyone was very inviting, and I enjoyed the hospitality of the people here. I had a wonderful visit at the hospital and am looking forward to applying for a fellowship here." Saher, producer and reporter for Inter news Organization in Islamabad, Pakistan, was also pleasantly surprised when community members and the students had an open mind about the culture and traditions of Pakistan. "It was sad that not many students knew anything about Pakistan, but they were very welcoming and eager to learn. It was a very good experience, and I thank those who opened their homes to us. They are very genuine," she said. Fatima, senior techno-functional consultant for Techlogix, was most astonished by Punx’y's geographical attributes. She said, "In Karachi, we don't have yards. I love all the greenery here, and I especially loved visiting Gobbler's Knob with all the trees and openness." Fatima also enjoyed the socialization they had each night picnicking and trying new foods. Dr. Nadia Ayub, a psychology professor at the Institute of Business Management, - Continued on page 6

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also experienced the suffering, sorrow and grief as a result of the Civil War. At age 19, Margaret married Edwin Little in June of 1856. They lived in a little cottage near the park on South Jefferson Street, where today is the parking lot of the Pantall Hotel. Mr. Little was in the lumbering business until May 1861 when

Crossroads in Virginia. There, he was seriously wounded in the knee. In April 1863, he was discharged from service until the wound healed. He reenlisted in January 1864 and was again wounded, at the battle of the Wilderness and was taken as a prisoner. He was a captive for 14 days before being released. In October 1864, he returned to his unit at Petersburg, Virginia. There, he was wounded again on October 27 and taken to Libby Prison in Richmond, the most famous prison of the William Campbell's legacy to Punxsutawney is the narrow strip of land between Jefferson Street and and Penn Street along E. Mahoning Civil War. After three Street. (c. 1905 post card) months in imprisonment, he, at age 27, with John Bell, recruited a he returned home to Punxsutawney. In number of boys and men from the PunxMay 1865, he was mustered out as a true sutawney area. That group marched to “veteran,” returning to work in the Brookville for the wagon trip to Pittsfoundry of his father and brother Thadburgh. They arrived July 29, 1861 to be deus, to live a painful life. Due to his mustered and E. H. Little was elected many battle wounds his health deterio1st Lieutenant and Bell as 2nd Lieurated, and he died at age 43, leaving a tenant. Robert Means, of Brookville, wife and four children. was Captain. The unit would later beThree daughters of William Campbell come a part of the 62nd Pennsylvania Volunteers. In late summer of 1862, the unit suffered many casualties at Malvern Hill while charging Confederate troops. Capt. Means was wounded and taken prisoner to the infamous Libby Prison. Lt. Little would take over command. Because of his injuries, Means had to resign from service in January 1863. Little was promoted to captain and led his unit until the battles of Gettysburg, when he died on July 2 while fighting in the wheat fields of that historic battlefield. He would leave behind his wife and three children. Margaret “Maggie” Little would operate a “Ladies Furnishing Store.” The children would attend the Dayton School for Soldier’s Orphans which was established in 1866 in Dayton, PA, one of many in Pennsylvania for “children of fallen soldiers,” or who “discharge the duties which they owe to the nation.” (For more details about the Civil War battles see Kate Scott’s History of Jefferson County, 1888.) Lumberman, storeowner, foundryman, family man, William Also killed at Gettysburg was Campbell’s legacy to Punxsutawney is the narrow strip of land he donated around 1850. It is located along E. Mahoning Street the husband of Martha Jane James Dowling. between Jefferson Street and Penn Street. As public land it has Campbell, had many uses over the years. (1938 photo and circa 1905 post card)

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Martha Jane was 28 when her husband lost his life. For a few years, with her sister Maggie, she would operate a women’s millinery store consisting of hats, bonnets, ribbons and flowers. She would marry Bartholomew Stump. A third daughter would share her life with a soldier in the Civil War. Ann was born in 1830, the second child born and the oldest of the Campbell girls. She came to Punxsutawney in 1833 with her parents. In 1849 she married William Altman, a young doctor in town. At age 36, Dr. Altman was among a few professionals in any community to serve his country. He volunteered for a three year term in the Civil War in December 1862 and was commissioned Assistant Surgeon with the 28th Regiment until May 1864, when he received the commission for Surgeon. He continued service until the war ended, being mustered out in July 1865. Returning to the community, he was elected Associate Judge for Jefferson County in 1870 and would be elected to the Pennsylvania legislature in 1885 for two terms. As with thousands upon thousands of families who saw their family members volunteer to fight in the Union Army during the Civil War, the events of those years were life-changing. Many sacrifices were made in the homefront, as well as on the hills and fields of war. The William Campbell family of Punxsutawney was among them (See addtional story on page 12 of this issue). William Campbell died in 1868. His wife’s death followed two years later. They are buried in the historic North Findley Street Cemetery. •••

Pakistan Natives Continued from page 3

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sible to mine coal. In the nineteenth cenBy PRIDE tury these two Punxsutawney area indusfor Hometown magazine tries were interdependent or, as we would escribing the relationship of the say today, co-dependent. coal mines and the railroads is like Building a railroad was an expensive inthe old saying, “Which came first, vestment. The venture capitalists, who put the chicken or the egg?” Coal their money into railroads, were gambling made it financially feasible to build railthey would realize a good return on their roads and railroads made it financially feainvestment. The results achieved by the first railroad in the Punxsutawney area, was giving every indication they were making a wise investment. By 1885, the three year old Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railroad, the first railroad to reach the Punxsutawney area, was forecasting great profitability. An item in the January 27, 1886, Valley News reported fifteen thousand loaded cars left Punxsutawney in 1885 and that number was expected to be Workers make a cut to reduce the grade along the Clearfield and doubled in 1886. The Franklin Railroad, late 19th Century. This picture shows a steam loaded cars were carrying shovel on a temporary rail line to support the work. A horse and a coal and coke from the wagon is being used to haul in ballast for the railroad bed. Walston Mines. With re-

Workers lived in a typical railroad construction camp in the late 19th or early 20th Century. The men at this camp were engaged in constructing the rail lines, including grading, placing the ballast, ties and rails.

ports like this, speculators and investors were rapidly buying coal lands and planning ways to have railroads build to access their lands. The first indication that there would be a second railroad to the coal fields in the Punxsutawney area appeared in the Valley News on November 11, 1885. “Col. W.C. Mobley, President of the Pittsburg and Northwestern railroad (formerly the Turtle Creek Valley) says work will be begun vig- Continued on page 18

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rom the Chamber of Commerce and the Community Calendar at Punxsutawney.com, here is a list of events and happenings coming up in our area. n The Farmers’ Market sponsored by PRIDE is held every Thursday from 4 to 7 p.m. on the sidewalks from the Fairman Centre to Miller Brothers Furniture in downtown Punxsutawney. n SSCD Lawn Festival will be August 5 through 7 on the church grounds. The festival features games and nightly entertainment. Drawing on Sunday night, August 7, for a new car or $15,000 in cash! n Music in the Park, sponsored by local individuals and businesses, presents free Thursday night concerts in Barclay Square. Bring your lawn chair! Refreshments available. In case of inclement weather, performances will be held at the Punxsutawney Community Center on North Jefferson St. See the complete schedule of bands at Punxsutawney.com. n Third Thursday Festival in downtown Punxsutawney will be Thursday, August 18 from 4 to 7 p.m. Come downtown for music, free food, special offers, promotions and sidewalk sales! A project of the downtown retailers and PRIDE. n First English Lutheran Church’s Peach Festival at the corner of Pine & Gilpin Streets on August 18 from 6 to 8 p.m. Serving fresh peach shortcake with ice cream and/or whipped cream with a beverage for $3.50. Children 12 and under $2. n Mosaic Workshop with Joyce Thames will be held Saturday, August 20 at the Lattimer House, 400 West Mahoning Street from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. for ages 15 and older. Free admission, but class size is limited to first 25 people. Call for mandatory reservations. 814-275-1204. n Groundhog Club Picnic to be held Saturday, September 10 beginning at 1 p.m. at Gobblers Knob. Enjoy lots of food and beverage and see Punxsutawney Phil get his annual drink of magic elixir. Tickets available from any Groundhog Club member or by calling 800-752-PHIL x3. n Punxsutawney.com is maintained by the Chamber of Commerce for the community. Any area business or organization is invited to become a member of the Chamber of Commerce for as little as $65 for the year. For more information, visit Punxsutawney.com/chamber or call 938-7700. To submit an event for the calendar, visit Punxsutawney.com/calendar and fill out the form. •••

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By PRIDE for Hometown magazine hen you walk into Cornerstone Chiropractic at 119 West Mahoning Street you are greeted with a sense of calmness. Dr. Rick Bishop and his wife, and his assistant, Julie Bishop have transformed this hundred-year-old store front into a haven where patrons may seek relief from pain. Rick’s road to Mahoning Street was not a direct route. Although he was born in Clearfield and raised near Sharon, he and his parents have always considered Punxsutawney as home. The Bishop family first settled in the Punxsutawney area in the 1850’s, and members of his extended family including his grandparents had remained in the area. He remembers shopping at the Arcade with his grandmother, when he was a little boy. His love of baseball took him to college at the University of Pittsburgh, where he was on track to become a professional base ball player. His career aspirations were shattered when an injury made it impossible for him to continue on his chosen path. While having therapy his chiropractor suggested he might want to

think about a career in chiropractics. “He said I could combine my knowledge of sports and love of the game with an ability to help athletes,” Rick said. “The more I thought about it, I knew it was the right move. I enrolled in Sherman College of Chiropractic at Spartanburg, South Carolina. “When I graduated, Julie and looked at a number of potential places to begin the practice,” continued Rick, “and after much consideration we decided to come home to Punxsutawney. We opened our first office in February 2005. The office was two doors east, at 115 West Mahoning Street. We were pleased with the success we Rick and Julie Bishop in their office at 119 W. Mahoning Street. had.” As the practice grew and they Although some of our patients come from realized they needed more twenty to thirty miles away, many of our space, when the building at patients, who live or work in town, ap119 West Mahoning Street be- preciate that they can walk to their apcame available, they took the pointments.” opportunity to expand. “Punxsutawney is close to just about Julie was the interior decora- everywhere we want to be,” he continued, tor for the new facility. She “in an hour and a half we can be in Pittsworked with the best features burgh or State College, two places big on of the building, maintaining sports. And, I am able to continue to dethe original brick wall and ac- velop my interest in baseball through my centing it with tastefully cho- affiliation through the Major League sen paint, wood trim and area Baseball Alumni Association, where I rugs to give it an up-town feel. serve as one of their official chiropracThe move more than doubled tor.” the space for Cornerstone Chi- Rick enjoys the privilege of working ropractic, enabling them to with the men who were his idols when he have spacious treatment rooms was growing up. and to offer spinal decompres- “You are welcome to visit our newly sion as an additional therapeu- opened office, even if you are not looking tic service. for chiropractic service,” said Julie. “We They feel their location in hope you like the new look as much as we downtown Punxsutawney is a do.” major business asset. “We are The Bishops are pleased with the sucvery fortunate to be here on cess of their business in downtown PunxWest Mahoning Street,” said sutawney and feel that of all the places Rick, “it is like the central hub they could have chosen, Punxsutawney is of the town. Up and down this the best. (This Punxsutawney Pride article is part of a Rick and Julie Bishop, in one of the spacious treatment rooms block you can see improvedemonstrating spinal decompression the newest service provided ments which make the street a continuing series running in Hometown magaby Cornerstone Chiropractic. great place to have a business. zine, supporting our community.)

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William Campbell bought land north of Mahoning Street, around 1850, from the heirs of Rev. Barclay and built his home facing the park (far right in circa 1864 photo). He donated land on North Jefferson St. for the Baptist Church to build their first church (steeple to left in photo). (Hometown file photo)

on the journey were three children, ages five, three and two. Eight children were born later in Punxsutawney, with three dying in childhood. He built his frame house and store on East Mahoning Street, opposite the land set aside by Rev. Barclay for the public park. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell were among the first members of First Baptist Church when it was organized in the fall of 1840, following revival meetings conducted by two itinerant preachers. Mr. Campbell was elected the first church clerk. Before 1840, Mr. Campbell was worshipping with the Presbyterian denomination of Rev. Barclay, in their new brick church built in 1833 on land that was designated as the “public square.” He was a trustee of the Presbyterian congregation, when in February 1836, the membership voted to withdraw from the Presbytery in Blairsville to become a Cumberland Presbyterian congregation. Some did not agree with that action. As a

After a time Torrence returned to the Cumberland fellowship and Campbell would join the new Baptist church body. When the Baptist people chose to build their own church in 1860, Campbell donated a lot on North Jefferson Street for their first church building. When William Campbell bought the land north of the park, he immediately acted to solve a problem of water drainage from the hills above the established North Findley Street Cemetery, outside of town where many first settlers would be buried. In the mid-1800s, the problem often caused the area in the valley below to be referred to as a “swamp.” With the problem, there was a ditch running down the east side of Findley Street (where the railroad passenger station used to be) and on across Mahoning Street that essentially divided the town. It was known then as Grave Yard Run. Older men would recall the scuffles encountered between the “downtown boys and the uptown boys.” The divide would - Continued on page 14

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be referred to as Punxsutawney’s Mason and Dixon line, as recalled by John Bair in 1919. The ditch meandered around through town, cutting through where is now the Fairman Centre (the old Murphy 5 &a 10) and where the National Hotel used to be. It went across Gilpin Street on to Church Street, emptying into the Mahoning Creek. Years later, to dispose of the water and drain the back swamps, the borough continued to straighten the run-off ditches and add sewers to empty water to the creek. In the 1880s, the swamp would later be filled in by the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railroad when the railroad was built to

The strip of land donated in the mid-19th century for a public market place by William Campbell is contrasted by pictures. To the left, as seen today with its public art of a fountain sculpture, a Punx’y Phil sculpture, and musical glockenspiel, and in the late 1880s (right) farmers with crops and goods.

town. Now, years later with memories of the “flood waters” after heavy rains on Findley Street at Pine Street, the borough has completed, with the assistance of development moneys, the upgrade of a historical municipal project, a problem first encountered by Mr. Campbell. Those folk who knew William Campbell in his lifetime said of him, “In point of intelligence and brain power Wm. Campbell did not have his superior in this country. In arguments he was profound.” At another time it was written in old accounts, “The Campbells were the richest men A detail of a Punxsutawney map from 1878 notes the property owners in town and owned about and businesses around the public square (Barclay Square). William one-half of Punxsutawney Campbell had donated land opposite the park for public use as a mar- proper.” He was among ket place. He also operated a foundry with son Thaddeus, to the right of the park near Mahoning Creek. (detail from map - Caldwell’s Illus- several lumbermen who would regularly put totrated History of Jefferson County-1878)

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gether squared timber and sawed lumber along Mahoning Creek and raft them to Pittsburgh. Another note of local history relating to William Campbell, and often overlooked, is one focused on the strip of land between North Jefferson Street and North Penn Street, fronting the buildings opposite Barclay Square. Occupying that space today is the special and unique fountain/sculpture of nationally known sculptor Jimilu Mason at North Jefferson Street, a Punx’y Phil sculpture and the entertaining glockenspiel provided by the Eagles Club near North Penn Street. Following his purchase of the land from the Barclay heirs Campbell donated that strip of ground to Punxsutawney. It was to be used as a market place where farmer’s could bring their wagons of crops and meats for public purchase. The land would be called “the Plaza” in old writings. In 1895 there was a proposal to build a 30 x 150 feet “market house” there. It was never built. In the early 20th century the “plaza”

would be the site for town celebrations and exhibitions, and carnivals. Diagonal parking on the “plaza” is remembered by many older residents. And then in the 1970s, federal redevelopment projects revitalized this “old” portion of the downtown by removing the older blighted buildings. In the process of planning the construction of a new building, it was discovered that that narrow strip of land was “public land” as to the wishes of William Campbell. Thus, buildings could not be constructed on the site, but set back in line with the Eagles Building that had been built in 1937. A new curb would be lined up with the others along the stretch of Mahoning Street downtown. As we enjoy the beauty of our Punxsutawney today, with its changes of wider streets, mature trees, beautified areas and new development toward a strong future, we often overlook the early settlers and pioneers during those “founding” years. William Campbell might be one of those we might have wanted to know. •••

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Continued from page 9 orously in the spring, and completed through Punxsutawney. ‘In my stay of three weeks in New York,’ said the Colonel, ‘I had numerous conversations with railroad men and capitalists and they all think next year will be a season of great prosperity. I have not in a long time received so many manifestations of confidence in returning prosperity as I witnessed on that trip.’” With this announcement even more speculators were anticipating the route of the railroad and planning for the economic stimulus this would bring. The railroad watch was on. Items in the newspapers tracked the development of the road. The December 9, 1885 issue of the same paper, boldly predicted Punxsutawney would have a new railroad in the near future. The following week, the new railroad had a name, Bell’s Gap Railroad, and on good authority, the paper reported that it would be built as far as Chess Creek, Clearfield County by the spring of 1886. This would place the new road within fourteen A steam shovel loads material from the cut into a car on a temporary rail line. Ties have been placed along the route and will be placed miles of Punxsutawney. The following week, De- under the rails when the line is made ready for use. mine they were opening at Adrian on the cember 23, R. E. Porter, the Big Run corElk Run. This presented a challenge. If respondent to the Valley News reported, “I Bell’s Gap were to build a road up Elk Run, learn from D.C. Gillespie, Esq., who was in it would cut off the Buffalo, Rochester and Coalport last week, on the line of the Bell’s Pittsburgh road because the grade was so Gap Rail Road, that men are at work above steep that the track would need to zig-zag Utahville, Clearfield Co., “slashing” for an up the valley. A second road in the same extension of that road to the mouth of Chest valley would have to build over the first Creek. This point is within ten miles of Big line several times before reaching the top Run, and the road will no doubt be exof the grade. This would significantly intended to this place soon, intersecting with crease the cost of building the road. Acthe B.R. & P. R’y., which would place cording to the Bradford Era, as printed in Punxsutawney, DuBois, Reynoldsville, Big the Valley News on July 14, 1886 this matRun and other points, at least 75 miles near ter was taken to the stockholders of the Harrisburg, Philadelphia and Washington B.R. & P. Railroad by General Manager than by any other route, and would be one Merchant. An agreement was reached and of the best paying roads of some distance in November 1886, the Buffalo, Rochester in the State.” and Pittsburg Railroad announced that a When a camp of one-hundred Hungarians branch railroad from Punxsutawney to arrived near Hudson in Gaskill township in Adrian would be giving work to a large the spring of 1886 to begin clearing the number of farm teams. Farmers were paid right of way for the Bell’s Gap route, the $3.50 per day for a team and wagon. people of Punxsutawney were elated. The impact of the coming of another railHowever, it would be over a year before road was felt at Walston Mine, where there the road would be completed to Punxwas a loss of laborers. Hearing of the sutawney. A corps of engineers had spent availability of better jobs, about fifty mina great deal of time reviewing old surveys ers left to seek employment on the Bell’s of the area seeking the best way to bring the Gap Railroad. Miners were not the only railroad from the Susquehanna River near ones looking for a better opportunity. The 23rd of June, the Valley News reported that, “The woods around here are full of coal land prospectors. They have their business eyes on the territory between this place and the river, in anticipation of the new railroad.” News reports of coal veins, such as the one found on James Urey’s place at HorYour Business Ad Can Run ton, sparked others to speculate. Urey, on our Full-Color while drilling a well on his place in Banks Restaurant Placemats For township, Indiana County, struck a fourteen As Low As $66. foot vein of coal about forty feet below a nine foot vein near the surface. This was a record breaking strike. Other news reports included the discovery of a five foot, four inch vein of coal while blasting on the line Call Mary, Tracey or at of the Clearfield and Jefferson Railroad (as 938-0312 or 938-9141 to the Bell’s Gap was becoming known) near Schedule Your Placemat the Val. S. Murray’s farm. Ad in Area Restaurants!

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tion boss has an idea who the thief is, and if caught prowling around the “camp” will meet with a warm reception.” It was not long before local people began to profit from the railroad. Local masons were engaged in putting up the stone work on the Bell’s Gap road and were working along Canoe near Kremkau’s. John H. Kremkau, who lived near the mouth of Canoe Creek, expanded his business by adding a line of fresh groceries in his storeroom to serve the needs of the men at the camps along Clearfield & Jefferson railroad. The mines and the railroad were interdependent, and the Punxsutawney Area Coal Memorial honors those who worked in both. The miner and the railroader worked in the coal industry of the area. (Editor’s Note: The resources used in the preparation of this article are available at the Punxsutawney Memorial Library and the Punxsutawney Area Historical and Genealogical Society. Photographs are from the private collection of Shirley J. Sharp. This article has been prepared by PRIDE – Punxsutawney Revitalization: Investing, Developing, Enhancing. PRIDE is a nonprofit organization which brings together residents, business people, community leaders and civic organizations, to improve the business districts in Punxsutawney. PRIDE is working to develop the Punxsutawney Area Coal Memorial. Comments on this article may be directed to PRIDE, P.O. Box 298, Punxsutawney, PA 15767) •••

Continued from page 18 Work continued throughout the year on the railroad. By the fall of 1886, the Bell’s Gap surveyors were mapping out routes through Punxsutawney, including the designation of sites for stations in Punxsutawney and Clayville. The section of railroad through the hills had to wait until the next year to be completed. The work of blasting the route of the railroad through the area known as the “Summit” began in May of 1887. Workmen, mostly immigrants Hungarian and Italian, were put all along the line of the Jefferson & Clearfield Railroad. Some lived in camps, and at places where they were expected to be engaged for long periods, shanties were built. These camps were rough places as this report from the Valley News shows, “A drunken row occurred at Flynn’s camp on the line of the Bell’s Gap railroad on Monday, May 2d, in which a man sustained a double fracture of the jaw bone and other internal injuries which for a time seemed to make his recovery a matter of doubt. Dr. J.A. Murray attended the injured man and at present writing hopes are entertained for his recovery.” Earlier that spring, the supervisors on the Bell’s Gap railroad, had one hundred bushels of oats carried off in one night. The oats was for the horses that were used on the road at the “Summit,” in Gaskill township. The article concluded with, “The sec-

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and pulling weeds. A college sophomore who is studying psychology in Virginia, she came here often to see the weeping beech with her father, Richard, who oversees maintenance of the estate and works for the university. "The tree is still one of my favorite things. I like the rock garden because it's secluded," Veronica Riner said. While she worked, Steven Kotecki and his wife, Shannon, who live in Portage, Pa., strolled through the space with their 1-1/2-year-old daughter, Scout. Steven Kotecki loves the stone walls. Perched on a wall and writing in a journal was Nichole Williams, who lives in Cresson and teaches philosophy at the Penn State-Altoona campus. As a child, she came here with her grandparents. When her twin daughters, Marissa and Kaelyn, were born with congenital heart defects, she brought them here to calm them; they enjoyed watching the Japanese koi in the reflecting pools. Now, they are 9. An alumnus of St. Francis University, Schwab would have loved the school's motto: "Reach higher. Go far." He spent lavishly and gave generously. After he died in 1939, Immergrun lay vacant until 1942. Then, to pay the considerable debts of the Schwab estate, it went up for auction. St. Francis alumni raised $32,500 to buy the house, garden and dairy farm, Davis said. Schwab filled this European-style garden with sculpture by Paul Manship, whose statue of Prometheus in Rockefeller Center is a visual landmark for New Yorkers. Gone now are Manship's griffons that guarded the cascading water, a bronze sundial depicting "Hercules Supporting the World," and Henri Crenier's "The Spirit of the Garden" and "La Source." Much of the statuary was sold during the 1942 auction. In their places are religious statues of St. Joseph and St. Theresa of the Little Flower. By the late 1970s, the garden was overgrown with weeds and underbrush and the fountains did not work. The beauty that is visible today resulted from the efforts of a modern miracle worker. A Franciscan priest, Ronald J. Bodenschatz, was nearing the age of 60 when he arrived in Loretto and spent years restoring this space; a small gold plaque in a chapel just off the garden honors his memory. (Email Marylynne Pitz at mpitz(at)postgazette.com.) (Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, www.scrippsnews.com.) •••

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For the crust: • 9 to 10 graham crackers, broken into pieces • 1/4 cup sugar • 1/4 teaspoon coarse salt • 5 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted For the filling: • 1 can (14 ounces) sweetened condensed milk • 2/3 cup strained fresh Key lime juice (about 1 bag) • 2 large egg yolks (reserve whites for meringue), plus 1 large egg, lightly beaten • 1/4 teaspoon coarse salt For the topping: • 12 ounces strawberries, sliced • 3/4 cup sugar, divided • 3 large egg whites, room temperature (2 reserved from filling)

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Make the crust: Coat a 9-inch pie plate with cooking spray. Pulse graham crackers in a food processor until finely ground. Measure 1-1/3 cups and discard excess. Pulse cracker crumbs, sugar and salt in food processor to combine. Add butter, and pulse until mixture is moist and holds together when pressed between two fingers. Press crust evenly into bottom and up sides of a pie plate using the bottom of a - Continued on page 26

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(Editor’s Note: ‘From Our Past,’ researched by S. Thomas Curry, features items of interest from past editions of Punxsutawney and area newspapers.) July 25, 1900 — The ladies of DuBois have a literary and social club which they call the Women of the Round Table, and Punxsutawney has a similar organization known as the Irving Club. Last Thursday the DuBois ladies came to Punxsutawney as the guests of the Irving Club and were entertained at the residence of Dr. Blaisdell, dinner and luncheon being served on the veranda. The ladies visited the hospital, too a trolley ride to Lindsey and return and had a general good time. (Punxsutawney Spirit) August 3, 1887 — The passenger train on the B., R. & P. now runs to Walston in the evening and leaves there in the morning. It carries the Walston mail, and as an express office has been opened at that place it also carries the express goods that have heretofore been left at Punxsutawney. (Punxsutawney News)

August 3, 1887 — In digging the trench for the water pipe at the Findlay and Mahoning street crossing, the workmen came on to a “corduroy” bridge, at a depth of about four feet. The logs were pine and were in an excellent state of preservation, and probably have been buried there for many years, when the street at that place was a swamp. (Punxsutawney News) August 5, 1873 — The team attached to Dr. Altman’s buggy on Sunday, while being driven down Gilpin street, got fractious, and kicked a wheel off the vehicle and broke the tongue. Nobody hurt. [Note: fractious: unruly or quarrelsome - for a horse it would mean not submitting to the harness.] (Mahoning Valley Spirit) August 7, 1889 — The young men of this place and Clayville have organized a marshall band of huge dimensions. It has seven fifers, eight drummers and a drum major, and they all play first rate, too. In the matter of making a noise they can distance a railroad train or a thunder storm in a very short time. (Punxsutawney Spirit) •••

Building railroads in the late 19th century required manpower, horsepower and steampowr. This photograph from the Punxsutawney area shows all three. The workers are leveling and preparing the ballast for the laying of the ties and rails. Local teams were employed at $3.50 per day. Men were paid about ten cents per hour. Photograph courtesy of the Punxsutawney Historical and Genealogical Society.

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