Peter Herdic. Owner, lumber mills, and president, Susquehanna Boom. A key player in making this city the "lumber capital of the world." He invented the "herdic," a rear-entry carriage, and erected many buildings here on Millionaire's Row. His 1854 home is No. 407.
407 W. 4th St., Williamsport, PA, United States
Dietrick Lamade. German-born publisher of the Sunday Grit, for many years a national "family newspaper." He founded it in 1882; this site was its home after 1889. He built Grit on a "good news" concept, an appeal to rural tastes, and a nationwide network of young carriers.
W. 3rd. & Williams Sts., Williamsport, PA, United States
Carl E. Stotz. Founder of Little League Baseball and Commissioner through 1955. Stotz developed the Little League idea in 1938; in the next year three teams played 24 games. It was at this site that Stotz established field distances for the pre-teenage players. The first 12 Little League World Series were held on this field, 1947-1958, and during these years the number of teams grew from 60 to thousands in many nations.
Original Little League Field, W. 4th St., Williamsport, PA, United States
Bowman Field. Built 1926. Long noted as Pennsylvania's oldest operating minor league baseball park and the nation's second oldest. The first professional game here was played April27, 1926, between the Williamsport Grays and the Negro league Harrisburg Giants. Over the years this park became home to successive Williamsport teams and hosted many major league teams for exhibition games. Originally Memorial Field; renamed 1929 for J. Walton Bowman.
1700 West Fourth St., Williamsport, PA, United States
W. D. Crooks & Sons Door Plant. During its 85 years, 1886-1971, this unique family-owned firm produced thousands of high -quality wood -veneer doors for the U.S. capitol, the white House, and other public and private buildings across the nation. Using Pennsylvania hardwoods and many imported varieties of wood, its workers crafted specialty goods during an era of mass production. Founded in South Williamsport, it relocated to this site, 1898; in the 1940's, 125 people worked here.
outside the Alvin Bush Campus Center, One College Ave., Williamsport, PA, United States
Williamsport. Laid out 1795 by Michael Ross. Incorporated as a borough 1806; as a city 1866. At one time a leading lumber center of the nation. Trade and travel center for over a century.
US 15 at LLWS, Williamsport, PA, United States
Susquehanna Log Boom. Six-mile series of piers, built by a company incorporated in 1846; used to collect and store logs during the spring log drives down the West Branch. Helped make Williamsport the world's lumber capital prior to 1900. Badly damaged in 1889 flood, the boom declined thereafter.
US 15, Williamsport, PA, United States
Lycoming County. Formed April 13, 1795 out of Northumberland County. The name (from a Delaware Indian word) honors Lycoming Creek. Williamsport, the County Seat, became a borough , 1806, and a city, 1866. Once a great lumbering center. Birthplace of Little League Baseball.
Lycoming County Courthouse, Williamsport, PA, United States
Julia C. Collins (? - 1865). Essayist, teacher, and author, her work, The Curse of Caste, is considered to be among the first published novels by an African American woman. In 1865, it was serialized in the African Methodist Episcopal Christian Recorder, a publication with nationwide circulation. Her life and writings provide a glimpse into the rarely documented experiences of nineteenth-century African American women, their families, and their communities.
Susq. River Walk & Timber Heritage TRail, near Market St. Bridge, Williamsport, PA, United States