Lincoln: getting there: roads, rails and the river

From the county histories, on Lincoln township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1883, including the spelling of the day and the errors the scanner made. It has not been rewritten, summarised or added to.

Yellow Branch, Sugar Creek, and Haw Run are the principal affluents of Trough Creek in this township. Another stream runs southeasterly along the base of Terrace Mountain, and after uniting with Tatman's Run passes through a gap in this mountain and empties into Raystown Branch in Lincoln township. Three principal highways traverse the eastern part of the township in a northeasterly and southwesterly direction, and another pursues a like course through the valley at the base of Terrace Mountain, in the eastern part, known as Illinois Valley. Another follows the valley of Trough Creek in an easterly and westerly direction, through nearly the middle of the township. East Broad Top Railroad crosses the southeastern corner of the township. Agriculture is almost the sole industry in the township. The farms are in the valleys and on the sides of the ridges and hills by which the township is traversed. ` The soil is fertile, especially in the valleys. The produce raised here formerly found its market at places on the line of the Pennsylvania Canal, but since mining operations became active in this region there has been a demand here for all the surplus produce that could be raised. The township includes no boroughs, but has two villages.J. Simpson Africa, History of Huntingdon and Blair Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1883) · character 2,375,475 of the scanned text

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