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Started in Pennsylvania Pennsylvania
Profiles Volume Fourteen
by Patrick M. Reynolds This book
starts with a comprehensive, illustrated history of the Pennsylvania
Turnpike: how the defunct South Penn Railroad built tunnels through
western PA mountians that the Turnpike later enlarged and used,
the political naneuverings that created the Turnpike commission
followed by the wheeling and dealing to get it financed, and
finally the race to complete it before the federal funding ran
out. Other stories include the gold mine in Potter County, the
invention of toilet paper and root beer, the beginning of Planters
Peanuts, the founder of Chautauqua, towns with Indian names,
Hollywood's most famous gossip columnist, indentured servants,
the murder of a bigamist preacher in Somerset County, the founding
of Nazareth and McKees Rocks and much more. Another highlight
of this book is the story about Pennsylvania's Dragon Lady,
Ann Carson who conspired to save her boyfriend from the gallows
by kidnapping the governor's son and holding him until the gov
pardoned her lover. Below are sample pages
8¼" x 10 5/8" 56 pages, fully illustrated,
paperbound ISBN 0-932514-22-7
#P13 PA Profiles 13 $6.95
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