Headsville Post Office to APS

For the past thirty-five years, the Headsvillle, West Virginia, Post Office served as an exhibition and working U.S. Post Office at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, showcasing its dual role as a country store and rural mail center. The museum is currently undergoing a major two-year renovation project and the post office was closed in late July. The American Philatelic Society proposed relocating the nineteenth-century West Virginia post office and general store — which was operated from the early 1860s until 1914 — to the American Philatelic Center in Bellefonte....

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Local authors publish book on Bellefonte Central Railroad

The Bellefonte Central Railroad operated in Centre County, Pennsylvania, and was a transportation lifeline for the county’s lime and stone industry, and for the community of State College and the Pennsylvania State University. It began life in 1886 as the Buffalo Run, Bellefonte, and Bald Eagle Railroad and was reorganized as the Bellefonte Central in 1892. It interchanged with the Pennsylvania Railroad at Bellefonte. Hard-pressed by competing modes of transportation and changes in the regional economy, the Bellefonte Central ran its last train in 1982 and was abandoned in 1984.

Local authors Mike Bezilla and Jack Rudnicki have just published a new history of this key element of the growth of Centre County. Read more about the railroad here....

Purchase Online at Stackpole Books: Rails to Penn State: The Story of the Bellefonte Central.

It can also be be purchased through booksellers.

Penn State history in Bellefonte

A number of leaders who helped to found Penn State and shape its early development are buried in Bellefonte's Union Cemetery, a 20-minute drive from the University Park campus. Bellefonte, the seat of Centre County, was the region's political, cultural, and economic hub in the nineteenth century. Union Cemetery is located between High and Howard Streets, one block east of the Court House.
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