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[Maiden Run of "Pennsylvania Special"]

Description: Heading out of the old Exchange Place Station in Jersey City, a spindly Atlantic type 4-4-2 locomotive and four de luxe coaches begin the maiden run of the "Pennsylvania Special" in June of 1902. Twenty hours and 912 miles later she will enter Chicago having given birth to a new era in passenger travel. On that same day in June the New York Central Railroad's "Twentieth Century Limited" also went into service. By 1929 all of the Pennsy's Atlantics had given way to the famed K4s Pacifics on f… more
Date: June 1902
Partner: Museum of the American Railroad

[Graduation Class of Palestine High School - 1901]

Description: Photo of the Graduating Class of the Palestine High School, May 30, 1901. Top Row: Alma Vitula Lewis David S.H. Howard Laura Lillian Rutledge Professors D.C. Lake - Superintendant of Palestine Public Schools Lois Ca?? Lake Emma Howard Hearne Bruce Walton Teagarden Kate Albers Allen Second Row: Pauline Sterne Fox Gertrude Hathaway Professor Norman Crozier Dorothy Anderson Professor J.H. Russell Annie J. Gardner Mary Olivia Duguy Bottom Row: Maggie Reed Billman George Foster Price
Date: May 30, 1901
Partner: Anderson County Historical Commission
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