The Perry Heritage Collection
In Perry County, Pennsylvania, history is all around us and right under our feet. We need only to look and investigate. We have a great and interesting history here in the county and that is what the Perry Heritage Collection of books is recording for the generations to come.
Books
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Welcome
Our ancestors dammed the streams for dozens of water-powered mills, timbered our forests, mined iron from our mountains, built furnaces to purify the iron ore, established dozens of tanneries to make animals hides into leather.
Great transportation systems crossed the county from early stagecoach lines, to the great Pennsylvania Canal along the Juniata and Susquehanna Rivers. Ferry boats carried wagons and passengers across the streams and rivers before bridges were built. The Pennsylvania Railroad followed a similar path as the canal to all points west. Our own Newport and Shermans Valley Railroad and Perry County Railroad carved the landscape from the rivers to the most western parts of the county.
Towns and villages popped up along the trails and roads, each with their own unique history. Some of those villages disappeared and became ghost towns with only stone foundations remaining today.
We have a great and interesting history here in the county and that is what the Perry Heritage Collection of books is recording for the generations to come. Our books are available for purchase locally, or on Amazon.
Where to Buy
Co-Op in the Cove, Duncannon
The Perry Historians, New Bloomfield
Amazon.com
About the Author
Dr. Dennis Hocker has spent his lifetime in Perry County. He was born in Marysville, schooled at Susquenita, and now lives with his wife, Mary Ellen (Fortney) in Wheatfield Township. Their family’s farm was settled in the 1760’s by Richard Stewart and has remained in the family since that time.