Memoir of Major Jason Torrey of Bethany Wayne County Pa
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95 healthful growth, so that it was able in 1823 and 1824, to build for itself a house of worship which was a noticeably fine one for the time, and is still standing and in use, though robbed by decay, of the tall and handsome spire that once surmounted it. Of this society father was an active trustee so long as he remained in business, and of this church an elder from 1818 to the end of his life. XX The Delaware and Hudson Canal Company. The events of the last chapter bring us to the time when... there dawned upon the inhabitants of Wayne County the knowledge of a new enterprise which was destined to influence very largely the de- velopment and prosperity of Northeastern Pennsyl- vania. Extensive deposits of anthracite coal were found to exist in the Lackawanna Valley — the nearest de- posits being about 17 miles from Bethany at the place where Carbondale now is. To get this coal to the New York market it seemed necessary to bring it over by rail from the Lacka- wanna Valley, the waters of which flow into the Sus- quehanna, to the Lackawaxen Valley, the waters of which flow into the Delaware.
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