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Oak Dale Station and the Civil War

| December 8, 2010

During the Civil War, one railroad ran from the interior of the Lykens Valley area to the Susquehanna River.  Believed to be completed in 1834, the line went from Millersburg to Lykens.  Its primary use was to transport coal from the coal mines around Lykens to the Susquehanna River.  Horses pulled the early coal cars […]