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Wistar was a friend of Benjamin Franklin, and made glass globes for Franklin's electricity-producing machines used for scientific research. Wistar's son inherited the business and his son, Wistar's grandson, eventually gained control of the company, but owing to his mismanagement it closed.
21 Jamestown, Franklin and Clearfield Railroad (merged 1915) 22 Kalamazoo and White Pigeon Railroad (original) 23 Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway (original)
The Atlantic and Great Western Railroad began as three separate railroads: the Erie and New York City Railroad based in Jamestown, New York; the Meadville Railroad based in Meadville, Pennsylvania (renamed A&GW in April 1858); and the Franklin and Warren Railroad based in Franklin Mills, Ohio (renamed A&GW in January 1853).
Braintree: Peter Etter, Joseph Crellins, Norton Quincy, and John Franklin started a glass bottle works in the province of Massachusetts near Braintree (now part of Quincy). [128] The business failed before 1752, when it was leased to Joseph Palmer. Infrastructure improvements were made, but the works was destroyed by fire around 1756. [129]
The Knight's Tombstone is a significant artifact from early American colonial history, located in Jamestown, Virginia, the site of the first permanent English settlement in North America established in 1607. This tombstone, dating back to 1627, is notable for being one of the oldest surviving tombstones in the United States and for its ...
The Jamestown and Franklin Railroad (J&F) was chartered under an act passed by the Pennsylvania General Assembly on April 5, 1862. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was permitted to build its line from Jamestown in Mercer County, Pennsylvania (about 2 miles (3.2 km) east of the Ohio-Pennsylvania border) to Oil City in Venango County, Pennsylvania .