Bluejay

Very nice web site.  A lot of  work maintaining the cemetery and when the snow melts those folks will be very busy.

I am sure they could use a  lot of help so if you are looking for something worthwhile to assist with contact them

The web site listed with the photos is wrong.  We have a new one now.

It should be:   http://www.rumbargercemetery.com/

Went past and the work around the sign is really nice.  Keep up the good work.

Visit their web site and help out when and if you can:  http://www.rumbargercemetery.org

I've been waiting for another one of these goofy bigfoot sightings just so I could share this cartoon.  Make another howl Bobo

                                        

This week marks the end of the Civil War with Lee's surrendering to Grant.  I had a relative who died in the conflict.  As a kid we found his name on the Pennsylvania Monument at Gettysburg but I don't know his name now.  Time for some genealogy work I suppose and perhaps I can find something about him.

http://www.duboispages.com/historicalalternate.htm

Would love someone to post pictures here of Baileys.  We spent a lot of time there in the "good old days."  Same with the drive in.

Understand that Edgemenot Park was down behind where Jackson China used to be just outside Falls Creek.  GUARANTEE IT NO LONGER LOOKS THAT WAY

Try the locaL HistoricaL Society web site:    http://duboishistoricalsociety.com/

Various News Accounts

One of the companies that helped coal mining become a major industry for DuBois was the Berwind-White Coal Company. It purchased 2,000 acres of land southeast of DuBois and put down a shaft where the DuBois Mall is now located. In 1900, it was taken over by the Buffalo and Susquehanna Coal and Coke Company and became known as B & S Shaft #1. A new railroad, known as the B & S, was constructed from Sinnemahoning to Shaft #1, using a new tunnel dug at Sabula. The railroad line continued to Armstrong County. A second shaft known as B & S. #2 was opened just beyond Highland Street a few years later. Labor disputes in 1929 forced the closing of the B & S and Northwest Mining and Exchange Company operations, and they were never reopened. The shafts flooded, effectively bringing an end to deep shaft mining.

DUBOIS, PA., March 23.

Perhaps you knew that the term

OK folks.  Show your support.   My check goes today to

Rumbarger Cemetery Preservation Society

Location: 534 S Main Street

Mailing Address: PO Box 264, DuBois, PA 15801

The amount doesnt matter ... send what you can ... it all helps

The challenge to contribute continues ..... let's all chip in

I was able to view my grandmothers headstone this morning at http://www.findagrave.com/

If you have relatives or friends buried at Rumbarger you can do  the same.   It is easy and free.

Round of applause for the Rumbarger Cemetery Preservation Society. Great public relations news item and you're on the right track.

Please do not cut down any more trees or shrubs unless absolutely necessary.   Plant more .. that is what gave that cemetery character years ago.

I have relatives buried there including a grandmother I dearly loved.   I will have to re-check and see what condition her gravesite is in and do whatever is needed there myself.

Plus, I'll step up and donate $ 100.00 to the Society right now if they'll post an address ... and I dare others to do the same .... maybe not that much, but whatever you can afford.   It all helps.

Consider yourself challenged !

There is a Major McCreight Biography and Wigwam images at http://duboishistoricalsociety.com

I was to the Wigwam last Monday.  It is in really awful shape and marked no trespassing and its best to honor that sign

A recent biography of Major McCreight and images of the Wigwam are online at http://www.duboishistoricalsociety.com/

What is the scale used in the rough floor plan of McCreight's Wigwam ??