So....anyone know of an online resource for old PA Stagecoach stops/stations???

[Gary in Pennsylvania]

My stupid scanner isn't scanning....GRRRRRRR!

Anyways - I have a book that has a nice sized pic of the Stage House as well as details of the history:
"George Buck's Tavern" (as named in 1806)
"Terwilliger's Tavern" - renamed this in 1824
Later sold to Abijah Lewis - Successful lumberer http://www.mapcenter.org/community/bcv-history1.html
he later sold it to William Tucker who owned it for forty years.

"A post office was established at the Stage House and the area was called "Beaumont", named after an influential member of the turnpike company, the Honorable Andrew Beaumont.
Tucker's Tavern was on the south side of what is now (Rt.115) at the Thornhurst path, 1 1/4 miles north of the Lehigh River."

I'll have to talk with the author of the book to see if he recalls exactly where this stage house was located. Who even knows if Rt.115 follows the same path as the original path back in the 1800's!

The pic of the stage house is nice. Two story wooden structure (easily gone now) BUT nice sized stone foundation (remnants may remain!)



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[jeff741972]

Kerrick rd is probably the old trail. I run 2 monitors and compare penn pilot/old maps to current google earth. That stage stop May still be standing, I cant seem to find an old monroe county map.

 

[jeff741972]

I found this while trying to find the stage stop

The large buildings remained into the 50's, to look at it now on google it looks barren, might be good. I also found 3 or 4 home sites in the area.

 

[Gary in Pennsylvania]

Good Catch on Kerrick Road! PennPilots DOES show that as busy back then.
Armed with a pretty good pic of the Stagehouse, I tried to match the 'shape' to the 1939 ariel look. Didn't see a match. I wish my scanner was working!

I found this while trying to find the stage stop

The large buildings remained into the 50's, to look at it now on google it looks barren, might be good. I also found 3 or 4 home sites in the area.

And as for the site above - I have NO idea what the hell that is.
I dunno even what TOWN that'd be considered to try & even research a possible camp name etc...?!

 

[Gary in Pennsylvania]

I found this while trying to find the stage stop

The large buildings remained into the 50's, to look at it now on google it looks barren, might be good. I also found 3 or 4 home sites in the area.

Hmmmmmm.....
This is CLOSE.....but the description "Historic Directions: 2 mi. NW Stoddartsville" doesn't match its orientation to modern day Stoddertsville.
http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/stateparks/ccc/camp.aspx?ID=22



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[jeff741972]

I would bet that it is the ccc camp.

115 would of been a main road before the turnpike, from jim thorpe to wilkes barre, 903 to 115 would of been the shortest route.

Usually on google earth you can see the old road as a shaded road compared to the current solid line of the what would now be the main road.

 

[Gary in Pennsylvania]

WOOOOO HOOOOO!

this isn't it....but it's a GEM.
Download this .pdf
http://theinsidereport.org/FamilyHe...avis/Elizabeth Speer Davis - Reunion 1992.pdf

V-E-R-Y interesting read!
Check out he map on pg2 - scroll to the bottom 'Treasure Island'.....that made me chuckle!
Nice map.

Look at pg18 - See up top 'Beaumont' Well that's what the Stage House that I originally posted about was last known as - could THAT be it? I'll check into it.


Nice poem on page 35.



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[Gary in Pennsylvania]

The mystery Stoddertsville spot?

Could it be the huge grist mill?

Stoddartsville Historic District

One of the pivotal industrial resources of the Lehigh River region, Stoddartsville is the site of an early 19th-century milling village built by entrepreneur John Stoddart in partnership with Josiah White. Here White built the first bear trap locks that made possible the canalization of the upper Lehigh River. When the area's industrial business ventures proved unsuccessful, and the milling village demised, a small resort community developed among the remnants of Stoddart's company town. Within the village are the prehistoric and Revolutionary War routes across the river. Stoddartsville includes the ruins of the immense gristmill (one of the largest in the state) and sawmill built by Stoddart, the ruins of the bear trap lock, worker and manager housing, and rustic resort cottages of the early 20th century.

Today, Stoddartsville is a private residential community. The Stoddartsville Historic District consists of houses and cottages, outbuildings and wells, as well as the ruins of mills and mill races, walls and landscape features, and early roads that were once part of an early 19th-century milling and transportation center. Two principal visual features of the district, one natural, the other man-made, command attention. The natural feature, which determined the location of Stoddartsville, is the "Great Falls of the Lehigh River." Here a band of bedrock has been worn by the river into a multi-story cascade that descends to a deep pool of water carved by the force of the fall. Directly confronting the falls is the other remarkable element of the district, the two remaining walls of the giant gristmill that formed the economic focus of Stoddart's village. Built of roughly shaped, local stones that were carefully cut only at the corners, the mill remains a commanding presence despite the loss of a roof and of a substantial portion of the building. Looming higher than any agricultural building of its era, it has a footprint of 50 by 70 feet. Chimney or vent shafts at the corners provide clues to the evolution of the Oliver Evans-type gristmill that was pioneered in the Philadelphia region. The mill was damaged by flooding in 1862, and was largely destroyed in the 1875 forest fire that swept through the region.

found just short of halfway down this link: http://www.nps.gov/history/NR/travel/delaware/textonly.htm


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[Gary in Pennsylvania]

Well - that Stoddartsville camp spot wasn't around in 1922.

http://historical.mytopo.com/getImage.asp?fname=stdd24sw.jpg&state=PA


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[RushinPA]

Re:Berwick Turnpike

http://www.bentonnews.net/Features/susquana.htm

This would provide some excellent spots to find. I worked in this area recently. Some of the stops in the article are said to be abandoned.

 

[Gary in Pennsylvania]

Neat!

Thanks!

This mentions some of the places in your link:
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pasulliv/sullivancountyfolk/scf3/Ricketts.htm

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/26519344/My-command-at-Gettysburg-[on-July-2_-1863]-consisted-of

http://harveyslake.org/gtnm/gtnm_complete.pdf

 

[RushinPA]

Re: Someone in Adams County Historical Society has good info on these

When in Gettysburg, stop by the Historical Society at the Lutheren Seminary. They are extremely helpfull, you will get spoiled. There is a gentlman there who had some interesting knowledge on local turnpikes and toll roads. I could spend all my rainy days there.