Swatara Furnace - Page 28, August 2nd, 1830

The above page number, 28, is not a typo, I am having to change the way I present information from the ledger; I have had the ledger for almost a year now and have only gotten as far as page  20, (Post from 30 September 2016). For the time being I am going to discontinue adding new surnames from every page; it is just too time consuming; I'm sure all of my followers are more interested in progress reports from the furnace site, what was  going on, new  things mentioned for the first time etc. I skipped pages 21 thru 27, there are new surnames on these pages which I hope to get back to and record at a later  date. In addition to progress reports from the furnace site I am going to add things that are not quite new, but things that might be interesting to my followers; today's post falls under the "Interesting Things" information. I also have hundreds of "Furnace/Forge area photographs" that I am going to add to my upcoming posts; after today's   ledger post I will start with pictures of "Highbridge", I have also seen it printed as "High Bridge".

Ledger Post

Page 28, Middle,  - August 2nd, 1830

There is something new in the above scan that I just picked up on, it seems we are now dealing with information from another ledger book, in both the top and bottom sections we see this: (Blue Book) which is underlined. The interesting part is the Surname "Trump", I'm sure everyone has become familiar with the Trump name over the past year or so. Sam Trump has been mentioned several times in this ledger book, nothing exciting though, just a couple of dollars here and there; the above is big time money though, Trump was paid $1.50 a day for 91 days, a total of $136.50; it could be fifteen to eighteen weeks work depending on how many days a week he worked, this could be three or more months work, also $1.50 a day is the highest pay I have seen, a few skilled workers did make $1.50 a day, most of the labor pay was one dollar or less per day. So, who was Sam Trump? What did he do? This would be something for a Genealogist to look into. Trump's wife is also listed in the top section of the scan, she received .05, total of $13.75 for something. I would say that the Trump's lived at the furnace site, in the bottom block under House Charge Trump was paid for seven candles, dried apples, meat and apple butter.

Swatara Furnace/Forge Area History

Highbridge Photos

Williams family photo from between 1921 and 1923. My Uncle Bill Williams at the far right, to his left is my Mother to be, Ruth Williams, (later Ruth Grumbine), the two at the left are unknown.

Williams photo from the early 1930's. Bill Williams at the left, Helen Williams (later Helen Brogan, then Kimmy) center, girl at far right unknown

View from the ground of the three sitting on the bridge.

In 1935 my Dad, Arthur W. Grumbine purchased a Leica 35 mm camera, it was also in 1935 the Eastman Kodak Company released Kodachrome Color slide film. Sometime between 1935 and 1939 my Dad took his first color slide pictures. The above was taken in Summer time, the one below in the Fall. There will be more color slide photos in following posts.