Cottage, Williamson School

Posted by on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off on Cottage, Williamson School Inspired by the Quaker ideals of hard work, faith, and modest lifestyle, Isaiah Vansant Williamson (1803–1889), a wealthy Philadelphia merchant and philanthropist, founded the Williamson Free School of Mechanical Trades in Middletown Township, Delaware County, the year before he died. He established the school to provide financially disadvantaged young men with an opportunity to become...
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St. Mary’s Church and Convent

Posted by on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off on St. Mary’s Church and Convent “Scene from typewriting room window. Much enjoyed on hot days during typewriting period (much more so than the typewriters),” wrote Josie Johnson to a Miss M. L. Elliott of Detroit, Michigan, on the front of a postcard dated July 30, 1908. The back of the card indicates that Johnson was a student and Elliott a teacher. The postcard depicts a landmark in St. Marys, Elk County, in...
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Wayne Brewery

Posted by on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off on Wayne Brewery Officials of Erie’s Wayne Brewing Company evidently realized the value of direct marketing – initiated by Aaron Montgomery Ward when he sent his first mail-order catalogue to consumers in 1872 – when they mailed postcards inviting customers “to visit us, assuring you a hearty welcome and some surprises.” A century ago, on April 3, 1912, the company sent a postcard...
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Fishing on the Yough River

Posted by on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off on Fishing on the Yough River The Youghiogheny (pronounced yock-ah-gay-nee) River – known to locals, anglers, and kayakers as “The Yough” – is a 134-mile long tributary of the Monongahela River which rises in northern West Virginia, flows through Maryland, and enters southwestern Pennsylvania on the border between Fayette and Somerset Counties. It joins the Monongahela from the southeast at...
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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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