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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherArcadia Publishing
ISBN-10073855457X
ISBN-139780738554570
eBay Product ID (ePID)12038681690
Product Key Features
Book TitleAround Hughesville
Number of Pages128 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicUnited States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Subjects & Themes / Regional (See Also Travel / Pictorials), Pictorials (See Also Photography / Subjects & Themes / Regional), United States / General
Publication Year2007
IllustratorYes
GenreTravel, Photography, History
AuthorJoan Wheal Blank
Book SeriesPostcard History Ser.
FormatPerfect
Dimensions
Item Height0.3 in
Item Weight10.5 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
SynopsisIn 1816, Jeptha Hughes purchased a tract of land along Muncy Creek and named it Hughesburg. The town grew, and it was renamed Hughesville in 1852. Local artisans, such as millers, blacksmiths, coopers, and cobblers, flocked to the area and plied their trade. Schools and churches were established, the Williamsport and North Branch Railroad made daily stops in the area, and farm families raised livestock, field crops, and vegetable gardens. The Hughesville Fair, an agricultural exhibition begun in 1870, became an annual tradition. Around Hughesville chronicles the people and places of this rural community between the 1880s and the 1930s, when Hughesville was a town that embraced innovative industrial change as it retained its old-fashioned country charm.