A Pictorial History of Mifflin County

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First train to Reedsville in May of 1865.

 

Hotel Building, Lewistown's original railway station, where mails and passengers were first taken on and left off Pennsylvania Railroad Trains. Afterwards known as Lewistown Junction.

 

Lewistown station at the Junction before 1874. Note the wooden bridges across the Juniata.

 

Top: The hotle building at the Junction in later years. (See pg. 12) Bottom: The Pennsylvania Railroad station about 1876, after construction of the iron bridge that replaced the former wooden bridge.

 

Top: Ruins of Lewistown Bridge- Destroyed by the Tornado of July 4, 1874. Three persons killed and five wounded. Bottom: Ruins of Glamorgan Furnace- Destroyed by the Tornado of July 4, 1874. Three persons killed.

 

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