Miller: getting there: roads, rails and the river

From the county histories, on Miller township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1913, including the spelling of the day and the errors the scanner made. It has not been rewritten, summarised or added to.

The Woodbums located at the north foot of Dick's hill, where they established the old Woodburn tavern, which was a famous stopping place on the road from Clark's ferry westward. In there were three public schools in Miller township , Pine Grove, Mahanoy and Bailey's. The last named is at the station of Bailey, on the Pennsylvania railroad, which runs along the eastern border of the township. It was named for Joseph Bailey, a prominent citizen and at one time the owner of the Caroline furnace, which was erected by John D. Creigh in 1836. Oliver township, lying along the western side of the Juniata river, extends from Tuscarora on the north to Miller on the south and is bounded on the west by the townships of Juniata and Centre.John W. Jordan, ed., History of the Juniata Valley and Its People (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing, 1913) · character 519,414 of the scanned text

Quoted from the county histories

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