Fulton County PA
Miscellaneous Newspaper Articles From the Past
Altoona Mirror (Altoona, Pennsylvania
May 5 1904
Jane Harris, an elderly maiden woman, living at Wells Tannery, twelve miles north of McConnellsburg, commited suicide by handing herself to a rafter of her house. She was well connected socially.
Adams County News (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
January 9 1909
May Get Railraod
McConnellsburg - It seems probable that McConnellsburg will have railroad communication with the outside world within eighteen months. Right of way has been secured fro the Pennsylvania railroad in Huntingdon county to the Fulton county line and some rights have been gotten by M. R. Shaffner, Esq., in Fulton county. McConnellsburg has granted a franchise for entrace into that borough and the probabilities are that the gap between Fort Littleston and Fulton's county seat will be closed shortly. The road will come from Huntingdon south down the cove.
Adams County News (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
January 16 1909
Waynesboro - John W. Lehman, of Waynesboro, was convinced on a visit to Fulton county that the long claimed existence of good coal in that county is now an established fact. Into the side of a hill, close to a creek, not more than a mile and a half east of McConnellsburg, and bout 200 feet from the pike, there has been dug a shaft fifty feet in length. At a point twenty-five feet under the surface of the hill a vein of white ash coal has been found that is seven feet in depth. Mr. Lehman, when a resident of Shippensburg, for a number of years handled coal and he says the Fulton county discovery is excellent white ash.
Adams County News (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
November 27 1909
McConnellsburg Coal
Magsan brothers, the McConnellsburg men who have been opening what they believe will prove a profitable mine on their tract of land half a mile east of McConnellsburg, alon ght pike that runs from Mercersburg to Funton county seat, have driven a tunnel into the side of the mountain 80 freet and secured therefrom a variety of combustible black rock that they are using in their boiler with success.
The believe they have located a splendid bed of coal. Near the surface they struck a thin vein. Now they are at work on a thicker vein. The prospecting is being done under the direction of a French mining engineer. They own a tract of land about two miles square, one of the brothers farming the surface.
Adams County News (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
March 5 1910
McConnellsburg is again in the line of having a chance to get on the railway map. Once moer a trolley seems to be likely to come its way. Practical work is going forward looking to the construction of an electric line from Fort Louden to that place.
The McConnelsburg Democrat tells that eight years ago this enterprise was advocated and sufficient capital offered to complete the construction of same when the entire project was blocked by Governor Pennypacker refusing to grant a charter for reasons so flimsy that he was ashamed to tell them.
It appears that in the new scheme other parties have become interested and data is now being gathered as to the amount of traffic to be handled. With a view of getting it as accurately as possible the merchants and shippers in McConnellsburg and along the proposed line are co-operating with others by compiling such information as they have available. The engineering details are being worked out by an experienced consulting engineer of New Jersey, while the legal part is being looked after by local talent and a corporation lawyer. It is said the financial end is to be taken care of by Harrisburg and Pittsburg capitalists.
Adams County News (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
April 2 1910
Aerial Tramway For Fulton
Fulton county, which has no rail roads and is connected with the outside world only by a stage coach, is to open up communications with Franklin county by means of a cable tramway. A company intends to build a cable lien from McConnellsburg, the county seat of Fulton county, to Ft. Louden, Franklin, a distance of eight miles. Primarily the tramway if for the carrying of freight, but, it is said, passengers will be carried if they do not object to being shot from mountain top to mountain top across valleys 300 feet below.
The business men of McConnellsburg are principally interested in the new line as their expenses for hauling freight across mountains into their town amount to something like $30,000 a year.
The cable will be supported by poles and it is estimated that freight weighing several tons can be shipped over the line. So far, it is said, Fulton county men have subscribed about $20,000 towards the project.
Adams County News (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
June 11 1910
McConnellsburg is likely to be connected with the outside world by an automobile line. Noting (Nothing) more of their aerial tramway has been heard for several weeks.
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