"SHANTYTOWN"???

[conservativeman633]

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 !!

[Keyser Soze]

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

[conservativeman633]

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.....?

[Vader]

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