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By Charles E. Williams

The Bucktail street, Pennsylvania direction a hundred and twenty, traverses over a hundred miles of the commonwealth�s old northern tier, linking Ridgway within the west with Lock Haven within the east. The Bucktail road crosses the japanese continental divide east of St. Marys and heavily follows the picturesque, deep valleys carved by way of Sinnemahoning Creek and the West department of the Susquehanna River. initially a local American direction and later a highway that carried settlers west past the Allegheny entrance, today�s Bucktail street is a centerpiece of the Pennsylvania Wilds, a public-private initiative to advertise and preserve the original typical and historical assets of the area. alongside the Bucktail road showcases over two hundred classic postcards profiling the cultural and usual background of the cities, forests, and waters associated by means of this scenic direction from its beginnings as a westward path, its development as a advertisement and business hall within the overdue 1800s and early 1900s, and its contemporary emergence as a most efficient Pennsylvania scenic byway.

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