The Pennsylvania railroad- its origin, construction, condition, and connections. Embracing historical, descriptive, and statistical notices of cities, towns, villages, stations, industries, and (14759834892)

Cumberland Valley Railroad Bridge, crossing the Susquehanna River at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Identifier: array1875sipe (find matches)
Title: The Pennsylvania railroad: its origin, construction, condition, and connections. Embracing historical, descriptive, and statistical notices of cities, towns, villages, stations, industries, and objects of interest on its various lines in Pennsylvania and New Jersey
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Sipes, William B., d. 1905 Pennsylvania Railroad. Passenger Dept
Subjects: Pennsylvania Railroad
Publisher: Philadelphia (Pennsylvania Railroad Co.) Passenger Dept.
Contributing Library: Northeastern University, Snell Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Northeastern University, Snell Library



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onceerected churches in the wilderness they hadcome to reclaim. The edifices they rearedfor religious worship were generally imposingstructures for the time at which they werebuilt, and some of them are still standing.As already stated, that near Marietta, inLancaster county, was the parent institu-tion, and the Presbytery of Donegal was thefirst organized in Western Pennsylvania.From it those further west have from time totime been severed. Churches were, aboutthe same period, erected at Paxton, Derry,and Hanover. Paxton Church is three milesnorth of Harrisburg, in the great Lebanonvalley, and occupies a beautiful situation.It was built about the year 1740, and beinga solid stone structure, bids fair to remain avenerable monument of American Christi-anity for centuries to come. The Rev.Mr. Elder, who lived in the immediatevicinity of this church, was its first pastor,and continued in that office for sixtyyears. He was also colonel of the PaxtonRangers, and in many respects appears to
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^ 4^fi -I ^ I HARRISBURG. 109 have been a remarkable man, well fittedto instruct and lead the hardy pioneers,whose duty it was to serve God and fightthe Indians. His remains, as well as thoseof many of the early pioneers of Dauphincounty, repose under moss-covered tabletsin the Paxton churchyard, which is over-grown with myrtle brought from the oldcountry and planted by hands of affectionin this sacred spot. The early history of this Paxton settlementwas very different from that of the easternportions of the province. While the latterhad nothing but peace and prosperity, theformer was accompanied with danger anddeath.* An early writer says:—Imagina-tion cannot conceive the perils with whichthe settlement of Paxton was surroundedfrom 1754 to 1765. Murder followedmurder,—settlement after settlement wasabandoned and destroyed,—hostile Indiansfrom the north and west made constant in- * About the commencement of the fifth decade of the eight-eenth century, the settlements in the Prov