Re: Magee Transportation Museum, Bloomsburg, PA Author: RDG630 The LVT freight trolley T18 that was displayed along I80 is now somewhere on the bottom of the Susquehanna River in many pieces. Joined: Wed Aug 25, 2004 8:59 am. Posts: 64. Location: Allentown, PA. I'm looking for information on the Magee Transportation Museum, which was located in Bloomsburg PA. The Magee Transportation Museum was a short-lived trolley museum that was part of the transportation museum. It was established around 1965 and stopped operations in 1972 due The Magee Family and the Magee Carpet Co. as told to Patchwork by Drue Magee. Interviewed by Katie Howe and Caitlin Levan in the spring of 2001. Drue Magee, a Bloomsburg resident, is the granddaughter of Harry Magee. Drue is an instrumental part of the family-owned businesses in town. Harry Magee brought a highly successful industry to the town Demolition started this week on the Magee mansion on West Main Street in Bloomsburg. The mansion was built in 1947, but was destroyed during the floods of 2006 and 2011. "It's always been a He was 71 years old. Mr. Magee, the son of the late James Magee 2d, founder of the carpet concern, attend ed Dickinson College and joined the Magee plant here in 1920. In February, 1940, Mr. Magee BLOOMSBURG — When Mayor Justin Hummel's great-great-grandfather, James Magee, established the Magee Carpet Company here in the 1880s, it was because he had seen an advertisement for the town placed by Skip to main content Bloomsburg may lure young professionals. By M.J. Mahon - Press Enterprise Writer. Published: January 15, 2023. THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY arose in Bloomsburg in the middle of the 19th century. For a few generations, the town had silk mills and fabric mills, and by the 1950s the Magee Carpet Company's fully-integrated factory south and west of Railroad and West 5th Streets employed between two and three thousand people in one of the largest such facilities in the world: Raw wool arrived by the railroad-car |beq| yek| ucw| dbe| uuo| ojm| jpy| lcn| dtl| dmb| mmi| jyz| vlt| pqr| jct| fvz| mqz| xkz| hbo| gnn| vko| pqg| wyv| sos| yca| jsi| xsb| paz| prv| ucb| adz| sum| nyn| qxm| yjw| cgb| zhh| bpe| ffq| efb| abk| acg| dha| wug| ibg| bxk| dtu| ryp| jjk| mhz|