Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-29
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In speaking about the article aP>
pearihg In this column on Saturday (
night on the names of the local dis
trlcts now embraced i'm Harrisburg
one OF our constant reader friends
suggested that there were some inter-
esting names to be found in the towns
which ring about the city For In
stance, he called attention to the fact
mat West Fairview and Wormleys-
burg, which have just celebrated cen a
lennials, used to be called respectively
Neidlgstown and Muttontown, all
though the use of the latter name was
never sanctioned by the people of the
place who struggled for many years
and finally, with success, to keep their
settlement from being called Bridge
port. Bridgeport has disappeared and
Lemoyne has taken its place while
Wormleysburg, 100 years old, goes on.
These changes are interesting studies
In development because the farmstead
| or the real acknowledgements ofto-dav
may give their names to the borough oc
tomorrow, or a railroad might move
away or the trend of building go IN
turnpike instead of along a railroad
line, Camp Hill and White Hill furnish
instances of such changes White
iiil was the name of farm which
had some outcroppings of white rocks
and was later the site of an orphans
school. while Camp Hill is supposed
to have been a camp site for prisoners
in the Civil War, or even before thar
used as camp.
In regard to Harrisburg and its
| local names some friends have added
some to the list published on Satrlr-
day. They were of rather restricted
use. but are interesting. For instance.
there was what the police called Castle
Garden, which was over near the Har-
rlsburg Pipe and Pipe Bending Works.
and Brooklyn which was vaguely given
TO the part of Sibletown just over the
old Herr street bridge. Cinder Row
and Furnace Row were given to
strings of shanties that spread out
from the old Porter furnace at Ninth
and State streets and about the Wister
and Paxton furnaces as did the old
rows about Lochiel stack. Tin Mill
town was name given to the section
| about the Lalance and Grosiean tin
plate mills for time but it became
merged Into the general designation
of the Tenth ward, just as Riverside
mas become the name of the whole
district Immediately north of the city.
The town of Steelton is now built on
what was called Ashland farm. The
settlement along the turnpike to Lam
caster, which was smaller than High
spire until the Pennsylvania Steel
works located there, was called Bald
win, probably in honor of the Phila-
delphia locomotive builder. The West
Side was called Ewington from the
late Joseph b. Ewing, who developed
| 1t. Oberlin used to be called Church.
vile and the East Harrisburg Railway
Company put il on the map by calling
| 1t Oberlin. Enhaut is the fanciful
| French name for Highland. the old
name of the place and there were set
! Elements known as Bressler and
Jerusalem. PaXtang is the old-new
name for the borough gathered about
| old Paxton church. Everything up
this way used to be Peshtank town
ship 175 years ago. and Paxtang is
the modern name, although Paxton
church is English in its derivation
Penbrook just grew and it's name was
given to it because some one is said
to have found it in a novel, although
| that has been questioned. Progress
was intended to be quite a town, but
Penbrook got the population. CoXesr
town is older than Harrisburg aid
was called EStherton before that. It
! is said to date from 1865 and the
| Hester residence is still called Esther
| ton. CoXestown and CoXe's Island
were named for Col. Cornelius Coke,
one of the Dauphin magnates of early
days. Lucknow is name given by
the Pennsylvania railroad to the dis
| trict about Lucknow Forge. Green
! Hill is a part of Lucknow. Rockville
was laid out about 1888 as a part of
the old Fort Hunter district, Fort
Hunter being one of the early outposts
against the Indians. Dauphin used to
be called Port Lyon and then Green's
burg, while Linglestown was st.
Thomas. 1t is only ten years younger
than Middletown, the Oldest town in
the county, which oddly enough never
had any other name.
A good many hunters took early
morning trains to-day to have their
last crack at the rabbits which have
been provokingly familiar in some
sections of the country the last few
days, according to what has been
heard here. The season for quail,
rabbits and other small game ends to-
morrow night when the deer hunter
will have the wilds to himself and
this morning there were numerous
hunters on the early trains, while
others left the city by automobile for
the country out about Linglestown or
over along the mountains dividing