Southampton Station History and Significance History Newtown Branch Philadelphia area. It was one of the last rail lines built in the 19th Century and it had a very rural atmosphere. Another 30 years would pass before the Reading would install catenary on the Newtown Branch to Fox Chase 36.8 Kb. 1
The Men Who Built America A new history series profiles the men whose imagination, daring, foresight--and some shenanigans--made the United States the economic power it is today 113.41 Kb. 1
Neols library Age of steam locomotion: Réalités, September 1972, no. 262 [three articles: 1 birth of steam, 2 death of steam, 3 nostalgia for steam] 150.86 Kb. 1
People & Events: John D. Rockefeller Senior, 1839-1937 Youth He was gone for months at a time traveling around the West from town to town and would return to wherever the family was living with substantial sums of cash. His mother, Eliza Davison Rockefeller, was very religious and very disciplined 60.2 Kb. 1