Item 10a: Engraving of Buttermilk Falls, unknown artist (removed to Black Box #1), c. 1843

Item — Box: 21, Folder: 10a

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Engraving of Buttermilk Falls, unknown artist (removed to Black Box #1), c. 1843

Dates

Created: c. 1843

Access:

All series and subseries within this collection are open for research, with the exception of a few files within the Academia series that are restricted. The Academia series contains financial and sensitive institutional records from Wilkes College, and financial report records from Princeton University that will remain restricted for 80 years upon creation.

Extent

1 items

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Type of Material:

Engraving

Condition Note:

Okay.

Measurements:

3 ⅞ in. x 3 in.

Title:

Buttermilk Falls.

Description:

An engraving of a town around Buttermilk falls spilling into a river. The print is small, but exhibits fine detail depicting people in the foreground, many houses, and a hill of trees in the distance. Buttermilk Falls was a small post-village of Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River and on the North branch canal, 135 miles northeast from Harrisburg which had excellent water-power. The name of the post office was simply “Falls.” According to the 1835 issue of the Monthly Traveler bulletin, “Buttermilk Falls is a tributary stream of the Susquehanna River, its springs are between the Lawahanock (pronounced by the settlers Lackawany) and the Tunkanock. United by its different branches near the river, it falls into the Susquehanna on the east side, about twenty miles above the town of Wilkesbarre. The land on it is principally timbered with oak; the soil is, in general, of an inferior quality. This stream abounds with fine situations for mills, and other water works, having, in its course, several considerable falls, from a supposed resemblance in colour, to the foam of which it derives its homely name.” Buttermilk Falls is one of many conspicuous views in the area. Solomon’s, Falling Spring, and Wapwallopen Falls are some of the others.