Pennsylvania
Between Ormsby and Smethport You Loose About 500 feet Elevation
Ormsby is located at the edge of Allegheny Plateau and the Long Level is at 2,100 feet elevation while the farm on the right, located on the outskirts of Smethport is about 1,600 feet. It is a pretty good drop into the gorge along PA 59, although at least the road is relatively straight and wide.
In 1993, US 15 was under construction north of Williamsport
The road had been graded, but it looks like bridges had yet to be built.
1993 - LEFT
2019 - RIGHT
White’s Island, Penna
Jim Inch’s story began in Snyder County before his father Robert rented a house, then owned by the power company, on White Island.
In 1944, Robert swapped five mules—his farming power source—for a down payment on an International Harvester F-12. He planted 65 acres of feed corn, cultivated it three times, hired men to hand-husk it, then paid them with corn, leaving plenty for his corncrib.
Later that season, he learned that his down payment covered the tractor, and he even received a $200 rebate on it. The next year, he planted 36 more acres of corn on White’s Island.
“Dad said right then that he should have quit farming while he was ahead,” says Jim, 81. “You can be rich one day and poor the next in this business.”
Jim, though retired, still works seven days a week. He lives on another farm owned by Roy Adams & Son, Inc., which now has the unique farming rights to White’s and three other islands in the Susquehanna.
Tammy Wolfe, Roy Adams’ daughter and office manager in Sunbury, PA, says most don’t realize how hard farmers work, where food comes from or how technology-based today’s farming is. “We’re proud of that work and proud to be a part of it,” she says.
South of Milford, US 11 and Interstate 81 Depart
They take two different valleys, as they head south. Notice all the natural gas development in this area.
Harrisburg Incinerator
Since 1972, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania has burned municipal trash in an incinerator downtown and landfilled the unburnable trash on site.
LEFT - 1993
RIGHT - 2019
Minisink Island
In the Delaware Water Gap.Β