conservativeman633 Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 THIS ARTICLE MENTIONS A "SHANTYTOWN" NEAR DONEGAL HILL IN DUBOIS...…...DOES ANYONE KNOW EXACTLY WHERE IT WAS ?? THIS IS FROM AN 1892 NEWSPAPER IN DUBOIS.... tHANKS !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser Soze Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 Page 4 DuBois HISTORY Meantime many lumber camps operated in the forests where crews cut and stocked logs splash-dams aided in creating temporary flood stages in the streams for floating the logs to the millsite where they were rapidly converted into huge piles of sawed boards and bill-stuff, box-shooks, ship-spars and shingles, constantly being sent to markets by rail. To get over the near half-mile of low lying beaver dam, to the homes now being built on higher ground on either side of it, slabs from the mill were used to lay a kind of corduroy, or mud-bridge later to be called the 'plank road',—now the tree-lined 'boulevard.' Very soon after the mill began to operate, it was found that coal veins of 5 ft. to 6 ft. thickness lay in the strata west of town, of easy access to the railroad. Development began by erection of tipple and siding, and within three years a considerable trade was added to that of the lumber, and DuBois became a live and growing town, so that with the year 1880 a bank and a newspaper were established. Hotels and boarding houses sprang up on Long and Courtney streets. A Methodist church was built on Booth street, a Catholic church on State street ,a grist-mill on Long and a schoolhouse where the City Hall now stands. While the postoffice was on. Long street side of the town, the Main street section developed toward the coal mines so that for many years there was a dual town known as the East or DuBois side, to distinguish it from the older or `Rumbarger' side. Rivalry existed for a long time between the two sections ,coal miners and their families for Rumbarger, and mill-men and woodsmen for the DuBois side. Both sides were about equally noted for pugilistic capacity and the frequent encounters in bar-rooms and picnics and on the streets later resulted in fixing to the Rumbarger section, the appella- tion of 'Bloody First' ward. Donegal Hill, as another title to that section, http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/clearfield/history/dubois-history.txt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conservativeman633 Posted January 27, 2020 Author Share Posted January 27, 2020 19 hours ago, Keyser Soze said: Page 4 DuBois HISTORY Meantime many lumber camps operated in the forests where crews cut and stocked logs splash-dams aided in creating temporary flood stages in the streams for floating the logs to the millsite where they were rapidly converted into huge piles of sawed boards and bill-stuff, box-shooks, ship-spars and shingles, constantly being sent to markets by rail. To get over the near half-mile of low lying beaver dam, to the homes now being built on higher ground on either side of it, slabs from the mill were used to lay a kind of corduroy, or mud-bridge later to be called the 'plank road',—now the tree-lined 'boulevard.' Very soon after the mill began to operate, it was found that coal veins of 5 ft. to 6 ft. thickness lay in the strata west of town, of easy access to the railroad. Development began by erection of tipple and siding, and within three years a considerable trade was added to that of the lumber, and DuBois became a live and growing town, so that with the year 1880 a bank and a newspaper were established. Hotels and boarding houses sprang up on Long and Courtney streets. A Methodist church was built on Booth street, a Catholic church on State street ,a grist-mill on Long and a schoolhouse where the City Hall now stands. While the postoffice was on. Long street side of the town, the Main street section developed toward the coal mines so that for many years there was a dual town known as the East or DuBois side, to distinguish it from the older or `Rumbarger' side. Rivalry existed for a long time between the two sections ,coal miners and their families for Rumbarger, and mill-men and woodsmen for the DuBois side. Both sides were about equally noted for pugilistic capacity and the frequent encounters in bar-rooms and picnics and on the streets later resulted in fixing to the Rumbarger section, the appella- tion of 'Bloody First' ward. Donegal Hill, as another title to that section, http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/clearfield/history/dubois-history.txt Thank you !! I was looking for the location of "Shantytown" in particular-------------------can't seem to open your site. I was wondering where, exactly, Shantytown was in relation to D-Hill.....? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vader Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 31 minutes ago, conservativeman633 said: Thank you !! I was looking for the location of "Shantytown" in particular-------------------can't seem to open your site. I was wondering where, exactly, Shantytown was in relation to D-Hill.....? Try copy and paste in your address bar. Not sure if there's anything in this one either, but it seems somewhat more...encompassing. http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/clearfield/history/city-of-dubois.txt conservativeman633 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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