Die ersten beiden Holzbrücken über den Susquehanna. Im Vordergrund die Cumberland Valley Railroad Bridge und dahinter die Camel Back Bridge von 1817, im Hintergrund Harrisburg (Zeichnung um 1875).
English: Cumberland Valley Railroad Bridge, crossing the Susquehanna River at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Identifier: array1875sipe (find matches) Title: The Pennsylvania railroad: its origin, construction, condition, and connections. Embracing historical, descriptive, and statistical notices of cities, towns, villages, stations, industries, and objects of interest on its various lines in Pennsylvania and New Jersey Year: 1875 (1870s) Authors: Sipes, William B., d. 1905 Pennsylvania Railroad. Passenger Dept Subjects: Pennsylvania Railroad Publisher: Philadelphia (Pennsylvania Railroad Co.) Passenger Dept. Contributing Library: Northeastern University, Snell Library Digitizing Sponsor: Northeastern University, Snell Library View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: onceerected churches in the wilderness they hadcome to reclaim. The edifices they rearedfor religious worship were generally imposingstructures for the time at which they werebuilt, and some of them are still standing.As already stated, that near Marietta, inLancaster county, was the parent institu-tion, and the Presbytery of Donegal was thefirst organized in Western Pennsylvania.From it those further west have from time totime been severed. Churches were, aboutthe same period, erected at Paxton, Derry,and Hanover. Paxton Church is three milesnorth of Harrisburg, in the great Lebanonvalley, and occupies a beautiful situation.It was built about the year 1740, and beinga solid stone structure, bids fair to remain avenerable monument of American Christi-anity for centuries to come. The Rev.Mr. Elder, who lived in the immediatevicinity of this church, was its first pastor,and continued in that office for sixtyyears. He was also colonel of the PaxtonRangers, and in many respects appears to Text Appearing After Image: ^ 4^fi -I ^ I HARRISBURG. 109 have been a remarkable man, well fittedto instruct and lead the hardy pioneers,whose duty it was to serve God and fightthe Indians. His remains, as well as thoseof many of the early pioneers of Dauphincounty, repose under moss-covered tabletsin the Paxton churchyard, which is over-grown with myrtle brought from the oldcountry and planted by hands of affectionin this sacred spot. The early history of this Paxton settlementwas very different from that of the easternportions of the province. While the latterhad nothing but peace and prosperity, theformer was accompanied with danger anddeath.* An early writer says:—Imagina-tion cannot conceive the perils with whichthe settlement of Paxton was surroundedfrom 1754 to 1765. Murder followedmurder,—settlement after settlement wasabandoned and destroyed,—hostile Indiansfrom the north and west made constant in- * About the commencement of the fifth decade of the eight-eenth century, the settlements in the Prov Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.