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The Cornwall Railroad acquired the Cornwall and Mount Hope Railroad in 1886, extending its line another 5 miles (8.0 km) to Mount Hope, Pennsylvania, where it interchanged with the Reading and Columbia Railroad. [5] Cornwall Railroad passenger trains used the Reading station in Lebanon until the end of passenger service on January 29, 1929.
Cornwall was initially settled by Peter Grubb in 1734. [4] Peter was a Chester County stonemason who came to, what was then Lancaster County , in search of high quality stone for quarrying . First building his house and then a store, he discovered magnetite iron ore nearby and decided to test its quality, he found the ore to be exceedingly pure.
One of the 2 ft (610 mm) gauge 4-4-0 locomotives of the Mount Gretna Narrow Gauge Railway. The Mount Gretna Narrow Gauge Railway was a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow-gauge line of the Cornwall and Lebanon Railroad in the state of Pennsylvania that operated between 1889 and 1915 under the parent Cornwall and Lebanon Railroad Company.
Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...
PA 419 is a two-lane undivided road its entire length and passes through rural areas. The portion of the route in Lebanon County is designated the Lebanon Cornwall Scenic Byway, a Pennsylvania Scenic Byway. What is now PA 419 was designated as part of PA 5 between Quentin and Cornwall and part of PA 83 between Rehrersburg and north of Schubert ...
This historic train station was designed by George Watson Hewitt and built in 1885 by the Cornwall & Lebanon Railroad. It was then expanded in 1912. A two-story, brick, brownstone and terra cotta building designed in an eclectic Victorian style that reflects seventeenth-century Flemish, Romanesque, and Chateauesque influences, it features a broad porch roof with ornamental iron brackets. [2]
1850s: Renamed the Pennsylvania Central Railway. 1850: Construction begins on Altoona Works repair shop at Altoona, Pennsylvania. 1857: The Main Line of Public Works of Pennsylvania purchased. 1865: First US railroad to use steel rails. [12] 1868: The Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railway is formed and controlled by the Pennsy.
Cornwells Heights is a census-designated place located in Bensalem Township in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States.The community was formerly part of Cornwells Heights-Eddington, but was split into two separate CDPs.