Hatching Room at the Pennsylvania State Fish Hatchery

Posted by on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off on Hatching Room at the Pennsylvania State Fish Hatchery Andrew Gregg Curtin (1817–1894) of Bellefonte, Centre County, is remembered in history as Pennsylvania’s “War Governor” for his ardent and early support of President Lincoln and the Union during the American Civil War, but he also played a critical role in conservation in the mid-nineteenth century by naming James J. Worrall the Commonwealth’s first Commissioner of Fisheries in 1866....
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