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Page 120 FORMATION OF SANDY
TOWNSHIP
man handed him five dollars, and told him to get him there as
quickly as possible. Billy forgot about his mail bags and drove past
the Post Office, carrying the mail with him to Luthersburg, as the
delivery of his passengers seemed to be more important to Billy than
the delivery of the mail.
The Railroad Company was kind enough to name the new
station "Swamp Siding" and maintained the name for a number of years
probably out of their love (?) for Mr. DuBois, for whom the
Pennsylvania Railroad did not have a very friendly feeling at that
time.
As will be noted in the second advertisement of Mr.
Rumbarger, Mr. DuBois was erecting two saw mills, "one of which will
be the largest of the state".
There was no access to these mills by any public
highway and Mr. DuBois realizing this, arranged with Henry Shaffer,
the owner of the land lying east of the Rumbarger Tract, to open a
road, now called North Brady Street.
On the 2nd of July 1873 they called in George C. Kirk
and we take the following memorandum from his notes of surveys of
that date:— " John DuBois and Henry Shaffer survey July 2, 1873,
located road for said parties as follows: Beginning at a post corner
of said parties in northern line
of warrant 521; thence north 66½ east on lands of said Henry
Shaffer, south 693 perches to Shaffer and DuBois line, 707.7 feet to
post on land of John DuBois; thence north 28½ east on land of said
John DuBois 249½ feet to Sandy Lick Creek, (said creek being 67 feet
wide), 2831 feet to a post, A. V. Railroad, said road to be forty
(40) feet wide."
It will be a little difficult to locate the point of
beginning of this road from the distances. However, after the first
course and distance, to wit: "thence 66½ east on lands of said Henry
Shaffer, south 693 perches to Shaffer and DuBois line," being
eliminated, the next location is easily fixed, to wit: "707.7 feet
to post on land of John DuBois". That would carry the line from the
intersection of Brady Street with Long Avenue and it would go north
to the line of Mr. DuBois and from there to the creek and from the
north side of the creek east to the Allegheny Valley Railroad.
Prior to the location of this road Mr. DuBois had
purchased from John Rumbarger and Henry Shaffer all of the land east
of Pentz Run lying north of the then public road, east to Brady
Street and thence north to the creek. This section of land was
subsequently laid out in lots by Mr. DuBois.
Mr. DuBois then constructed a road over the land
dedicated by Mr. Shaffer and himself. That part of this road from
the south side of the creek north to the railroad was known as the
"Plank Road". This valley was subject to floods, as it is now, and
in order to keep the
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