In 1875, artist and travel writer John Bachelder gazed down into the valley near Tower City, Pennsylvania, and struggled to find the words. What he saw defied easy description — a landscape torn between the industrial and the sublime, where coal breakers loomed like “enormous black spectres” against a backdrop of ridgelines fading blue toward the distant Susquehanna River. The source is a railroad travel guide, published in 1875, and it accompan…
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