Shirley township
Jack's Narrows, 1879
Jack's Narrows in 1879, an engraving capturing the dramatic rocks and the river before factories and railroads filled the valley. This is the natural geography that made Mount Union a desirable place to build industry.
Photo from page_history (Facebook archive, 2016-05-10)
Nothing further from the county histories. The six histories held here end in 1913 and this story belongs to 2016, so there is no passage in them that bears on it. Rather than attach an unrelated page and let it look like corroboration, this story stands on the sources listed below.
Sources
- page_history 2016-05-10_829855937144243.jpg
- Photograph credit: Historic Mount Union Facebook page
Checked 2026-08-08 · Historic Mount Union collection