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BUCKS COUNTY

 

1919 -

The Great White Hurricane

Check out this slideshow and the very fitting Enya song that plays along with it.

400 people were killed in this storm, which occurred in March incidentally, about 40 to 50 inches of snow fell paralyzing the northeast for a week, it was the worse recorded blizzard in history, and was part of the inspiration for the first ever subway system in our country. 

[Copyright Fundamentals for Genealogy] The rules of rural Pennsylvania

Nockamixon TwpToday's useless fact - When in American history was it a crime to criticize the president?

 It was during the second half of John Adams's administration, which has become known as the Federalist Reign of Terror. Under the Alien and Sedition Acts, it became a crime to criticize the president or the government. It got so bad that his vice president, Thomas Jefferson, stopped signing his letters, correctly assuming that government agents were reading his mail. More than twenty newspaper editors and a member of the House of Representatives were jailed. (Representative Matthew Lyon got four months in jail and a $1,000 fine for writing an editorial in a Vermont newspaper; his constituents re-elected him while he was in jail and paid his fine.) The law finally expired after Jefferson became president.

~source used: "Just Curious about History, Jeeves" by Erin Barrett & Jack Mingo

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THE RED LION INNS
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LAND WARRANTS 1737-1748 Film 0984124
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INITIALS IN OLD DOCUMENTS
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CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF COUNTIES
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TAVERNS AND HOTELS
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GERMAN NAMES THEN AND NOW
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LANGHORN AND MARY
A 19th century romantic novel

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PENNSYLVANIA TREE SAMPLER

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FOR PENNSYLVANIANS...AND WANNABE PENNSYLVANIANS

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COOL HISTORICAL FACTS

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PENNSYLVANIA TRAIL OF HISTORY

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PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH IS NOT DUTCH BUT GERMAN

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PUNS
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VICTORIAN ENGLAND

THE CHAMPION CUCUMBER RAISER

Mrs. Josiah DOWEY claims to be the champion cucumber raiser of Lehigh county, having a cucumber thirteen inches long and measuring eleven and a half inches in circumference. She has some that are very nearly as large and claims they are about three-fourth grown. They have been raised on good Republican soil she says.

Ref: Town and Country Newspaper
Pennsburg, Montgomery County, PA
Saturday - August 20, 1904

Page last updated: August 8, 2021

ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1864) 2nd Inaugural

With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan - to do all which may achieve a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. 

 

 
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