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School of Forest Resources completed an economic impact study of the trail. The study concluded that the trail is providing a positive impact on the region. Average daily expenditures of resident visitors was $ 4.33 per day while non-residents spent $ 9.28 daily. Attendance during the May to October
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The furnace operation encompassed 231 acres (0.93 km), though Ritter and Irvin owned much more. The property included many related buildings such as a casting house and a stove house, twenty-one log homes, a wagon shop, smoke house, stable, sawmill, boarding house, and store. The employees were
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per year. The operation was started by partners Henry McClelland, Elias McClelland, and Stephen Johnson who acquired 30 acres (120,000 m) along the Blacklick Creek. The property containing the furnace eventually totaled 822 acres (3.33 km) and included a sawmill and several boarding houses
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Construction of Claghorn by Lackawanna Coal began in 1903. Due to an economic downturn, work was suspended in 1904. The Vinton Colliery Company purchased the partially built town in 1916 and opened six mines in the area. The company constructed 84 houses, a three-story 22 room hotel, a building that
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As early as 1850, the furnace was struggling financially and forced to close. Ownership passed to Dr. Alexander Johnson, who sought experienced individuals to run the furnace. When Johnson died in 1874, he stipulated that his estate be divided amongst his three children. The courts ruled that the
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estate "could not be parted or divided ... without injury to or prejudice to or spoiling the whole thereof." The Court awarded the property to Johnson's son Stephen, one of the original partners in the project. On February 17, 1901, the property was sold to Judge A.V. Barker on behalf of the
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The trail obtained much of the property through donated rights-of-way. Since its establishment, the trail has been supported by the Keystone Grant Funding, a program that will match a donation from a variety of private, local, state, and federal groups.
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During the 1830s and 1840s, partners David Ritter and George Rodgers acquired several thousand acres in the Blacklick Valley and began construction of the furnace in 1845. Before completion, Rodgers sold his share to Lot Irvin, a farmer from
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for its new route rather than the Blacklick, the furnace utilized outdated technologies, and the cost of hauling iron to the Canal was high. David Ritter experienced financial problems, losing property in
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The Eliza Furnace, also known as Ritter's Furnace, operated between 1846 and 1849. It is one of the best-preserved hot blast iron furnaces in Pennsylvania, one of the first in the area, and is on the
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Wehrum, the largest of the former towns, once contained 230 houses, a hotel, company store, jail, bank, post office, school, and two churches. It was founded in 1901 by
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Due to difficult access and a flood in 1977, repairs had been minimal until the trail was extended past the site in 2005. The furnace is located along the trail in
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period was 66,000, of which 23% were from outside of Cambria and Indiana counties. The overall impact of the trail during the period totaled $ 362,000.
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project. On November 5, 1957, the Delano Coal Company sold the property to the Historical & Genealogical Society of Indiana County.
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This article is about the Ghost Town Trail in Pennsylvania, United States. For the Ghost Town Trail in Saskatchewan, Canada, see
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rather than in cash. The furnace was never able to achieve a profit and was forced to close for several reasons: the
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Delano's Domain: A History of Warren Delano's Mining Towns of Vintondale, Wehrum and Claghorn, Volume I, 1789-1930
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as payment when sued by former partner George Rodgers for $ 350. In July 1848, the property was seized and sold at
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cemetery that sits in the woods above the trail; the last burials took place in 1927. The trail follows the
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In October 1996, interns from the Southwestern Pennsylvania Heritage Preservation Commission and
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method. After the iron was produced at Eliza, it was carried by wagon to Nineveh (modern day
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The trail passes many historical sites, particularly sites of abandoned coal mines and their
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Ghost Town Trail Heritage Tour - an online interactive tour of the history behind the trail
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extended past Claghorn. The mines were closed in 1924, and houses were rented until after
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served as a school and theater, and a company store. The Ebensburg-Black Lick line of the
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of the former Ebensburg and Black Lick Railroad, the trail follows the
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donated the Rexis Branch, 4 mi (6.4 km) between Rexis near
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National Register of Historic Places in Cambria County, Pennsylvania
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to Indiana County, 12 mi (19 km) of which between
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US National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
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Ghost Town Trail - Indiana County Parks & Trails
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Index

Ghost Town Trail (Saskatchewan)
National Recreation Trail
National Register of Historic Places
rail trail
Western Pennsylvania
Black Lick
Indiana County
Ebensburg
Cambria County
right-of-way
Blacklick Creek
ghost towns
coal mining
cycling
hiking
cross-country skiing
National Recreation Trail
United States Department of the Interior
Kovalchick Salvage Company
Indiana, Pennsylvania
Ebensburg and Blacklick Railroad
Dilltown
Nanty Glo
Cambria and Indiana Railroad
Vintondale
White Mill Station
U.S. Route 422
Ebensburg
Cardiff
company towns

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