Egle's Notes and Queries of Pennsylvania

Note: Egle's Notes and Queries of Pennsylvania, 1700s-1800 was originally published between 1879 and 1895 as a series of newspaper columns in the Harrisburg Daily Telegraph, It was based on Egle's published book: An Illustrated History of the Commonweath of Pennsylvania, Civil, Political, and Military, from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Including Historictal Descriptions of Each County in the State, Their Towns, and Industrial Resources by William H. Egle, M.D., Member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Harrisburg: De Witt C. Goodrich & Co., 1876. The newspaper excerpts were then carried forward and published in five annual volumes between 1896 and 1900. The columns (and offprints of the columns which appeared in pamphlet form) were reprinted in seven volumes between the years 1894 and 1896; thus, with the five annual volumes for 1896-1900, the complete set of Notes and Queries comprises twelve volumes. In 2005, the University of Michigan put the entire history online at Egle's Illustrated History of Pennsylvania.

The section presented here has to do with the origin and naming of the towns and boroughs of Sullivan County. The story begins in the second column of the first of the four pages presented here. Our contributor is Sandy Pinter. The picture at the top of this page, contributed by Don Collins, depicts the old Hotel Bernard in Laporte, a prominent boarding facility for lumbermen at the end of the 1800's.

Lehigh Valley Railroad Depot, Dushore, PA
Before 1916
The photo was located on eBay by Carol Brotzman and may have been an old postcard. It can be dated before 1916 because it was published by Charles W. Hoffa (1859-1916). Hoffa ran a drugstore in Dushore which appears to have also served as a local photo shop. This depot would have been greatly familiar to the countless citizens of the Susquehanna River Valley who used the railroad to travel to and from work, other towns and even to the major cities of New York and Buffalo at the turn of the twentieth century.