The Lemon House-Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site-Cresson, Pennsylvania
Brown WL. 1994. The Lemon House-Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site-Cresson, Pennsylvania. Historic Furnishing Reports. National Park Service, Division of Historic Furnishings
This report is an extension of the report prepared by Anna Coxe Toogood in 1980. Newly discovered evidence for historic furnishings warrants this effort. This report includes administrative data, historical data, and a furnishing plan for the Lemon House. The National Park Service will interpret Lemon House as an example of how the local social and economic structure developed in association with the Allegheny Portage Railroad. Lemon House will be used to interpret the many hostelries along the Allegheny Portage Railroad and the Pennsylvania Mainline Canal where travelers stopped to eat, drink, share stories about their journeys, and sometimes sleep over. The story of Samuel Lemon will be interpreted as an example of the many entrepreneurs who utilized the area's natural resources and transportation links in order to make a more prosperous living. Site interpretation will focus on the period 1830-50. This report focuses on the administrative and historical data of the Lemon House as well as a furnishing plan.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Brown, William
- Date of Issue
- 1994
- Publisher
- National Park Service, Division of Historic Furnishings
- Units
- ALPO , HIST
- Keywords
- Allegheny Portage Railroad, Cultural Resources, ehistory, Lemon House