October 14, 2024
Tag: Lincoln Highway
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The Grand View Ship Hotel
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Driving west through Pennsylvania in the 1920s and 1930s was arduous. The road that became the Lincoln Highway (U. S. 30) was paved but there were few amenities. Then entrepreneur Herbert Paulson built “The Only Steamboat in the Mountains,” the Grand View Ship Hotel, at a sharp bend on the road with a beautiful view…
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July 13, 2022 2 Comments
In 1909, a male and female kidnapping team took Billy Whitla out of school and demanded a $10,000 reward. It’s good that most criminals aren’t smart people. It makes them easy to capture; they were arrested only miles away the next day. The boy was returned to his family, but the story still has a sad ending.