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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KQP_the-louis-nuschke-store_Austin-PA.html
On this site a wood frame business was built by Louis Nuschke. A grand store for it's time, one could purchase anything from furniture, carpet, wall paper, hand painted china and jewelry as well as hardware items. When the dam broke in 1911 the Nu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18K8_the-bayless-pulp-and-paper-mill_Austin-PA.html
In 1900 on this lot, George C. Bayless of Binghamton, NY. began construction of a large pulp and paper mill. Originally constructed for a daily capacity of 50-ton, in later years it had at times, an output of 70-ton of paper per day. By 1910 the m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSRS_the-costello-tannery_Austin-PA.html
On this site once known as North Wharton, P.H. Costello and P.C. Costello of Oneida, New York, built what was then the worlds largest tannery. By December 1881 the tannery consumed 32,000 cord of bark annually for a yearly output of 6,000,000 of s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQQB_austin-flood-disaster_Austin-PA.html
On September 30, 1911, the Bayless Pulp and Paper Company dam broke here. This concrete dam, built in 1909, was nearly 50 feet high; 534 feet long. Its failure sent torrents of water and debris down Freeman Run into Austin and Costello, causing gr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHM8_brig-gen-albert-gallatin-jenkins-c-s-a_Austin-PA.html
Born November 10, 1830 in Greenbottom, Virginia, he was a graduate of Jefferson College and studied law at Harvard University. Albert Jenkins served as U.S. Congressman from 1857 to 1861 and then resigned to serve the confederacy. Thereafter, he s…