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Horton City, PA

The Horton City sawmill was built in 1886 by Burr E. Cartwright and Warren H. Horton to cut timber and peel bark on 8,000 acres of timberland owned by the Northwestern Mining & Exchange Company along Mead Run. The operation was big for its time: It had over 10...