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Identifier: pennsylvaniamagav6hist (find matches)
Title: The Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Historical Society of Pennsylvania
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Publisher: (Philadelphia) Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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as well as of all kinds of groceries and dry goods.The extensive storehouses were, practically, granaries for allkinds of grain, and added to this, they received and curedpork and beef. It has been observed that all who wereengaged in this business were successful. When, however,turnpikes came to be constructed, the consequent easy pas-sage to the city led to a rapid decline of such commerce. James Stokes related that before the year 1812, he hadcounted in one day, passing along the road, more than fivehundred waggons, very many of them the vast structuresstyled Conestoga, drawn by six or sometimes eight horses,as was common in that day. This seems almost incredible,but it must he remembered that Germantown was once, in1793, so great a place as to be the seat of government of theUnited States and of Pennsylvania. Kot less of the past is this, than is the manner in whichin its earlier days the people of Germantown were bidden tofunerals. Every door was what was called a half-door, and
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