Five miles northwest of Halfway Brook Village was Beaver Brook (sometimes called Beaver Brook Mills), where James K. Gardner supervised a lumbering operation for St. John and Dodge. James K., his wife Eliza Eldred, and their three children lived in … Continue reading
The Delaware and Hudson Canal opened in October 1828. In November 1828 the first canal boats loaded with coal arrived at the Hudson River. From then until 1899, barges carried anthracite coal from the Moosic Mountains of Northeastern Pennsylvania mines … Continue reading
Lumberland, 1825–1831 “Lumbering was the only business of the section, cutting and drawing logs, sawing and hauling boards, rafting and running lumber down the stream.”—Johnston, p. 293. Lumberland hummed with the sound of sawmill blades as they ripped through huge … Continue reading
