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Historic Sites Attractions In Cresson

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Allegheny Portage Railroad

Horseshoe Curve National Historic Landmark

Ohiopyle State Park

Penn's Cave & Wildlife Park

Climbing Tours

Fallingwater

Idlewild & SoakZone

Cresson is a borough in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States. Cresson is 80 miles east of Pittsburgh. It is above 2,000 feet in elevation. Lumber, coal, and coke yards were industries that had supported the population which numbered 1,470 in 1910. The borough is part of the Johnstown Metropolitan Statistical Area, although state and local sources list it as part of the Altoona area due to being much closer to that city. The population of Cresson at the 2010 census was 1,711.The location was named in 1854 as a memorial to philanthropist Elliott Cresson. Railroads, beginning with the Allegheny Portage Railroad, fueled the growth of the area. Many ...
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Historic Sites Attractions In Cresson

1. Allegheny Portage Railroad Cresson
The Allegheny Portage Railroad was the first railroad constructed through the Allegheny Mountains in central Pennsylvania, United States; it operated from 1834 to 1854 as the first transportation infrastructure through the gaps of the Allegheny that connected the midwest to the eastern seaboard across the barrier range of the Allegheny Front. Authorized as part of the Main Line of Public Works legislation in 1824, it was a series of ten inclines connecting to a branch of the Pennsylvania Canal at either end, approximately 36 miles long overall. It had five inclines on either side of the drainage divide running athwart the ridge line from Blair Gap through along the kinked saddle at the summit into Cresson, Pennsylvania. The Portage Railroad utilized cleverly designed wheeled barges to ride...
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2. Fallingwater Mill Run
Fallingwater is a house designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935 in rural southwestern Pennsylvania, 43 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. The house was built partly over a waterfall on Bear Run in the Mill Run section of Stewart Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, located in the Laurel Highlands of the Allegheny Mountains. The house was designed as a weekend home for the family of Liliane Kaufmann and her husband, Edgar J. Kaufmann, Sr., owner of Kaufmann's Department Store. After its completion, Time called Fallingwater Wright's most beautiful job, and it is listed among Smithsonian's Life List of 28 places to visit before you die. The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966. In 1991, members of the American Institute of Architects named Fallingwater the best al...
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3. Horseshoe Curve National Historic Landmark Altoona Pennsylvania
Horseshoe Curve is a three-track railroad curve on Norfolk Southern Railway's Pittsburgh Line in Blair County, Pennsylvania. The curve itself is about 2,375 feet long and 1,300 feet in diameter; it was completed in 1854 by the Pennsylvania Railroad as a way to lessen the grade to the summit of the Allegheny Mountains. It eventually replaced the time-consuming Allegheny Portage Railroad, the only other route across the mountains for large vehicles. The rail line has been important since its opening, and during World War II the Curve was targeted by Nazi Germany in 1942 as part of Operation Pastorius. The Curve was later owned and used by Pennsylvania Railroad successors Penn Central, Conrail, and Norfolk Southern. Horseshoe Curve was added to the National Register of Historic Places and des...
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Cresson Videos

Weird Pennsylvania Outta the Way! Tour Part 2

Places we've visited in the Weird Pennsylvania book.

Horseshoe Curve Aerial Video - Full Train Around The Curve, Altoona, PA

This is an aerial video of a train navigating the World Famous Horseshoe Curve in Altoona, PA

Venango County, PA Trains

All aboard the Oil Creek and Titusville Railroad, where you can enjoy this historic route, train cars that feature old style seating and closed cars with all the amenities. On the train, you can purchase lunch and postcards that are mailed at the only working railway post office in the United States.
The ride starts at the Perry Street Station in Titusville and travels a scenic path along Oil Creek. Tour guides will explain the rich history of the region, starting with the Pennsylvania oil boom.
The Oil Creek and Titusville Railroad makes three stops along its trail at the Drake Well, Petroleum Centre, and Rynd Farm Stations before connecting to the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad.
The railroad experience continues at the Caboose Motel in downtown Titusville, the Caboose Motel, features twenty one converted cabooses that have been beautifully remodeled.

PA Great Lakes -

Steepest Vehicular Railway Incline In The World Portage Pennsylvania Ascent 1018

U.S. 202 King of Prussia, PA to West Chester, PA

U.S. 202 King of Prussia, PA to West Chester, PA

Abandoned: Forever?

Significant local historical sites are in danger of being forgotten. One has already succumbed.

Portage railroad

Portage railroad at Johnstown Altoona Pa. On Cresson Mountain

Pennsylvania Mainline Canal Guard Lock #38

The Pennsylvania Mainline Canal's Eastern Half Started/Ended at Hollidaysburg where a large canal basin sat where the Everett Railroad Yard is today. From here at Lock #38, the canal boats would have been sent to the far end of the canal to await passage on the Allegheny Portage Railroad.

Pirate Flag Half Way Up Randsburg Mountain Mojave Desert Off-Road California Thanksgiving 2015 0013

Off-Road String of Videos (Playlist) California Mojave Desert Mountains by Randsburg Thanksgiving 2015

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Old West Desert Mountain Town at 3,600 feet (1,104 meters) above sea level (in southern California when as many as 2,000 to 10,000 to 20,000 people camp out in cottages and circle up in RV Round-Ups stretching for thirty miles from Randsburg to Johannesburg along US 395 south to California City, east of Mojave, 2-1/2 hours east of a totally different culture in Los Angeles. Off Roaders, Dirt Bikers and 4 Wheelers, love the basin and range with salt flats and endless twist and turn in the higher elevations of sagebrush hills and desert mountains in the warm southern California chaparral.

On the high end of Main Street in the Living Ghost Town of Randsburg only local artists show in the Randsburg Art Gallery. Randsburg resident population is not 70, not 50, but recently down to 48 people in the heart of this mountain side enclave of Bohemians living on the cool north slope.

Great views extend over mountain ranges Rand, El Paso and southern end of the Sierras to the northwest layering fifty miles deep into the Sierras at the far north of the Owens Valley greatly valued by many Wild West Hollywood movie directors including backgrounds for John Wayne films.

From the wide balcony of the Cottage Hotel at the high end of town, the northeast view looks over the tops of three mountain ranges advancing into lost desert basin and range, layering in greys from light to dark hiding mysteries of pioneers and prospectors of the Audacious Generation struggling against the Wild West impelled by burning visions inspired by travel guides and drawings of the 1850s overland journals telling wild stories of the greatest migration of people in the history of the world. Some of them pared off on the dry eastern drainage of the Sierras. People such as Seldom Seen Slim and desert homesteaders like the prior generations of Scrappy, manager of the Cottage Hotel, happy to be in the area all her life.

Antique phosphate sodas are thankfully not as sweet as many soda pops today.

In the Randsburg Art Gallery a hand painted map of southern California high desert depicts the highest elevation in the continental USA - Mount Whitney 14,495 feet above sea level in the Sequoia National Forest in the southern Sierra Nevada Mountains and a moderate distance to the east-southeast the lowest point in the United States - Death Valley at 282 feet BELOW sea level, too hot and too dry in the summer. In between are military reservations of Fort Irwin desert warfare and armored tank training center, China Lake Naval Weapons Center and Edwards Air Force Base. The map is a fresco 10 foot square. Off map to the northeast in southern Nevada is Nellis Bombing and Gunnery Range and off map to the south is experimental military aircraft development center - Skunk Works, famous since the 1950s with the X-1 to Right Stuff coming together in the X-15.

First Bank of Randsburg was open for six months then failed. Randall Hoot Smith is now the pleasant owner.

Erma Maw - Choctaw Indian Artist.

Scene from Darwin, mining ghost town in southern California. Artist uses as many as thirty layers of paint, many layers use translucent paint.

Randsburg centrally located for hiking in the Sierras of southern Tulare County and eastern Kern County, and also other marvels of the Mojave Desert in southern Inyo County.

Randsburg is about 1200 feet (368 meters) above the much hotter desert floor, hence it is good for overnight stays before heading to Death Valley National Monument or other areas in the Mojave Desert. Only three hours from Los Angeles, Randsburg is also due east of the southern tip of the Sierra.

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