An undated photograph of the area north of Millersburg, in Upper Paxton Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, known as the farm of A. G. Cummings and his son Howard Cummings. It was on this farm that the most difficult of all the land preparations for the Midland Pennsylvania Railroad was conducted. It became known as the “Cummings Cut.”
A. G. Cummings, a noted Civil War veteran and inventor, died in 1911, shortly after the court ruled that the railroad had a right to seize his property for their right of way.
Both the Northern Central Railroad and the Midland Pennsylvania Railroad went through the Cummings Farm.
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