Saltsburg High School - La Saltianna Yearbook (Saltsburg, PA)

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 ;1 1- eRGANlZAT I ON jQ SA TafclBg In 1769 a patent for a large tract cf land lying between Black-legs Creek and the Conomaugh and Kiskimentas Ri'vers as grant to Hugh arri Thomas Wilson. From thl3 time wave of Immigration rolled in rapidly, nn patentees divided their land and sold port, one to settlers. Mr. Johnston gave to his sister, i..rs Boggs that part of the land which originally belonged to the wiiSOn Patent. There in the winter of 1816-17 Andrew Boggs, hoc • uuaoandy laid out the town cf Saltsburg. Prior to “his the locality was known as the Salt «ork3. The town of Saltsburg was incorporated £3 a borough in 1838. 7 V7 7 7 7 7 V7 7 7 7 V7 V7 7 V7 V7 7 V7 V7 V7 V CANAL Travel time for freight from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia was cut from about three weeks to four days in 1834, when the Pennsylvania Canal was opened to traffic. At Portage -canal boat’s, which wore made in soctlons, were taken from the water and transferred over the mountains by rail. Thoy wore reassembled in the canal near Hollidaysburg and resumed their eastern journey, without disturbance to cargoes or passengers. The total distance covered was 374 miles. Over the list 81 miles, the boats again traveled by rail. The Pennsylvania Canal system enabled Saltsburg to develop rapidly. The salt works had already made the town an industrial center. With the boat building yards, factories, thriving industries, end the completion ot the Canal and an inland port, it was visioned as a great city destined to become a rival ol Pittsburgh, as a metropolis of Western Pennsylvania. V V V N V 7 7 7 7 V V 7 V V V V V7 V V