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2 unusual facts about Steamtown National Historic Site


Joseph M. McDade

Regionally, McDade was the principal advocate for the Tobyhanna Army Depot and was instrumental in establishing the Delaware Water Gap Recreation Area, the Steamtown National Historic Site, and the National Fishery Laboratory in Wellsboro.

West Somerset Steam Railway Trust

The first of these, No 6705, has been acquired from Steamtown USA, part of the National Park Service, based in Scranton, Pennsylvania.


Union Pacific 737

On October 30, 1986 the US Congress passed legislation creating Steamtown National Historic Site as a unit of the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.


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