Made an expedition to the Town of Nay Aug the other day, in search of the Nay Aug Methodist Episcopal Church. Unfortunately, didn't locate the church, but did locate remains of some adjacent structures.
This is number 2 on the map below.
This is number 3 on the map below.
Near number 3.
This is number 1 on the map below.
Possible wells near number 1.
Bottom of Road to Brick Yard, Nay Aug Methodist Episcopal Church would have been located off to the left. Roaring Brook is just around the bend on the right. The church was also known as the Lawrence M.E. Church due to the land for the church being donated by the Lawrence Family.
Looking across Roaring Brook towards the bridge abutment of the Road to Brick Yard, this concrete bridge was washed out in Hurricane Diane in August 1955.
1918 map, the area in question is at the bottom, near Nay Aug Methodist Episcopal Church.
From 1919 Scranton Sanborn map, cropped from Sheet 94. Bottom left buildings, with a tiny blurb on the M.E. Church.b.JPG)
Another 1918 map, I forget what these were from now, they were copied from microfilm at the Albright Memorial Library in Scranton back in 2008-09.
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Fascinating! The map might have been this one but I couldn't find the whole map online although Lackawanna County PAGenWeb has the part showing downtown Scranton:
ReplyDeleteAtlas of the city of Scranton and borough of Dunmore, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania : from city and county records, private plans and actual surveys.
Author: Albert Volk; Henry J Kuehls; E Robinson; Volk & Kuehls.
Publisher: Philadelphia : Volk & Kuehls, 1918.
The entire volume is here: https://digital.libraries.psu.edu/digital/collection/maps1/id/24385/rec/2
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ReplyDeleteThe bridge across the Roaring Brook in the Nay Aug section of Dunmore was washed away in the flood of May 22, 1942. The Borough of Dunmore never had the money to replace the bridge and the state would not do it. The concrete roadbed was still lying across Roaring Brook as late as 1961.
Frank, The bridge across the Roaring Brook in the Nay Aug Section of Dunmore was washed away in the flood of May 22, 1942. The concrete roadbed was lying across Roaring Brook as late as 1961. The Borough of Dunmore never had the money to replace the bridge and the state would not do it. The county road that ran over the bridge has gone back to the wild.
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