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From: Carol Bogue <>
Subject: Re: [INDUBOIS] Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:53:26 -0500
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Re: transportation
I remember reading something about that in a book, and also in
historical displays in Pittsburgh & Evansville.

This was a common route. Recall that the railroad wasn't a factor
until the mid to late 1850's. That left river or overland
transportation. Overland was difficult because of weather & poor
roads, among other things. The only "superhighway" was a sorry thing
to see. See this link for more information:
<http://www.nationalroadpa.org/historical_timeline.html>;

The preferred way to travel was by boat. At Pittsburgh, the
Allegheny & Mononhahela Rivers join to form the Ohio River. The Ohio
River is very navigable from Pittsburgh to the midwest, so was a
cheap, efficient way to travel in that time period. Evansville was a
a popular port at that time because of its location, topography,
resources, & politics.

Re: What was the name of the Jasper school? My grandmother said she
went to a grade school where the girls were downstairs & the boys
were upstairs. his would have been around 1910. Her family lived in
Montgomery, Indiana, but parts of her extended family lived in Jasper.

At 11:20 AM -0400 9/24/06, wrote:
>I am finding references to Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania regarding several of
>my families that settled in Ferdinand, for instance in my Altmeier and
>Gogel/Gockel lines I have not been able to find these families on
>any online
>Pennsylvania sources ( or request help in writing) because I need
>more details to
>do the searches. People migrated across the country in groups....does anyone
>else have family that came from Pennsylvania to settle in Ferdinand or
>nearby? And if so, do you have info on exactly where in
>Pennsylvania they lived?
>Faith

At 2:38 PM -0400 9/24/06, wrote:
>I also read this week that Sister St. Theodore Guerin and five other Sisters
>of Providence arrived in New York on Sept. 4, 1840 and traveled to
>Pennsylvania. From there they traveled by train, stagecoach, and
>steamboat to Madison, IN. Another steamboat took them to
>Evansville, IN and a stagecoach took them the rest of the way to
>St. Mary-of-the-Woods. In 1842 she opened a school in Jasper, IN,
>which is close to Ferdinand. Maybe this was a common
>route...from New York to Pennsylvania to Indiana....or maybe it was
>a route the
>Catholic community followed. Coincidence or not?

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