Talk:Lock Haven, Pennsylvania

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[edit] History

The History section needs to be re-written as a prose narrative rather than a chronological list. I've been putting off the re-write in the hopes that someone would or could provide sources for the list or parts of it. Can anyone find support, other than personal web sites, that can be cited? Maybe the job will be easier if we compress the long list of big floods into a single sentence; it should be relatively easy to support a claim of frequent floods (one every seven years on average, or something like that) and claims about the 1936 floods and other specific big floods. I'm not sure how much of the general pre-history is useful. Maybe it could be compressed into a sentence or two. Any thoughts? Finetooth 00:29, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

I have re-written the History section as a prose narrative. To retain as much of the good work of the authors who preceded me, I re-arranged the material by century and created a separate flood subsection. I moved the History section above the Geography and climate section and just below the lead. Much remains to be done. The 19th century has gotten short shrift and deserves more detail. Everything before the 18th century has gotten nothing at all; people apparently inhabited the area as early as 8,000 BCE or so. Something, a couple or three sentences, might be said about those earlier centuries if we can find reliable sources. Speaking of sources, I supplied a few, but the article still includes unsourced claims that might be challenged. The lead must be re-written to reflect the new content. We need a section on infrastructure, and maybe the highway stuff belongs there rather than in Geography. A photo of the city skyline from the Lockport side of the river would show the levee as well as the taller buildings, I think. Maybe someone who lives in the area could have a whack at it and upload a Lock Haven skyline photo to the Wikimedia Commons. Such a photo could be placed in the city infobox. See Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, for example. Finetooth 03:40, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

The changes look good! Dincher 20:55, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

The article is coming along. The 20th century is now the thin one. It's got nothing yet about street cars, for example. Cursory research reveals the existence of the Susquehanna Traction Company (formerly the Lock Haven Traction Company) that leased and operated 12 cars on 5.5 miles of electric railway connecting Lock Haven, Flemington, and Mill Hall in 1908. The city also had a passenger train station and passenger service through at least the 1950s. It also had commercial airline flights to and from its airport. Does anybody have suggestions for material about these modes of transportation in and around the city? Or details about the other 20th century industries such as the silk mills, the dye works, and the wire mill? Also, the article still needs photos, maybe of one or more of the grander houses. This thought reminds me to say thanks to Ruhrfisch for the Big Runaway map; I shouted "yes" when I came across it. Finetooth 04:39, 19 October 2007 (UTC)