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1. RE: [PA-HISTORY-L] [1]
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2. History of Northern Dauphin Co Part 3 [1]
O'Connor reports that David Kramer was born in Europe in 1858 and was given a section of land (once in an Indian settlement) between present Moore & North Streets, by his great aunt, a Delaware Indian Squaw. The Crow Ferry landings were in the location of the present landings while the Kramer Ferry landed at Gearhart Street on the Millersburg side and just below Patton's run on the western side. Not Crow, Carson, nor even Kramer ever bothered to get ferry charters. Officially the only way to ferry
3. History of Northern Dauphin Co Part 1 [1]
The western site of the ferry landing, once called Berry Bottom after James Berry, was first war ranted from the Penn's by Alexander McKee. McKee was the son of trader Thomas McKee who had settled earlier in the Dalmatia area. Alexander claimed two sections, one on September 20, 1762 and another on September 5, 1766. There is no record of him improving the land and he later moved to the Pittsburgh area becoming an Indian interpreter. He was granted 1,400 acres at what would be called McKee's Rocks
4. History of Northern Dauphin Co Part 7 [1]
The Chamber set up the Millersburg. Ferryboat Association to operate the boats and sold the ferry system to the Association. Without the grief of the administrative nightmares and maintenance, Captain Jack came back to pilot the boats as did captain Dick Wallis. Three other captains were immediately trained to solve the pilot shortage, George Waters, Don Lebo, and Cliff Tschopp. The Millersburg. Ferryboat Association has operated the boats for nearly a decade and as it has done many times in its hi
5. History of Northern Dauphin Co Part 2 [1]
While the evidence of ferry operation from the late 1750s is scant, written evidence does exist of a continuous operation since 1817. An unsigned lease written in July 1817 between Michael Crow Sr. and George Carson slated to begin its terms on September 1, 1817 is still in the possession of Robert Wallis. This date coincides with the founding of Bendersettle. John Bender bought from the Indians all of the ground he could walk around from sunrise to sunset hundred acres. This was one of the few walkin
6. History of Northern Dauphin Co Part 3 [1]
Since upgrading the ferry to steam didn9t phase the troublesome Crows, the Kramer's decided next to file a lawsuit against Isaac Crow in the Dauphin County Court of Common Pleas. The suit must have been slow to develop and the Kramer's seemed to have trouble paying off the Enterprise so before the suit reached fruition, they unloaded the Kramer Ferry to Joseph Johnson in 1875. Joseph Kramer and his wife Hannah sold their small share to Joseph Johnson for $300 on October 6, 1875 and then about a mon
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