Great Train Wreck of 1856
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The Great Train Wreck of 1856 occurred in Whitemarsh Township, Pennsylvania, between Camp Hill station and Fort Washington station, on July 17, 1856. Two trains, traveling on the same track in converg
The dreadful accident on the North Pennsylvania Railroad by John L. Magee
Mary Ambler (1805–1868)
Mary Ambler homestead, Ambler, Pennsylvania
Ambler, Pennsylvania
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Ambler is a borough in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located approximately 16 miles north of Center City Philadelphia.
Great Train Wreck of 1856
…opened Monday, July 2, 1855, with an excursion from Cohoquinoque station, at Front and Willow Streets in Philadelphia, to Wissahickon (present-day Ambler), an outlying area to the northwest. Farmers could now ship their produce more economically to markets increasingly far from home. The railroad, which…
The historic Ambler Theater
The Keasbey & Mattison Company plant in Ambler, c. 1900
The reservoir parcel of the BoRit Asbestos Superfund Site was remediated and repurposed as the Wissahickon Waterfowl Preserve