(07-31-2016, 06:54 PM)L Verge Wrote: How close would Tamaqua be to the oil fields of Pennsylvania that Booth had an interest in?
In the book "John Wilkes Booth in the Pennsylvania Oil Region"
Booth stayed for a while in Franklin, PA in 1863-64. It was a small town of about 1,300 in 1860, located in northwest Pennsylvania.
(a few miles northeast of the I-75 and I-80 intersection)
Wikipedia says Franklin is part of the OIL City, PA Micropolitan Statistical Area. About 245 miles to Tamaqua according to MapQuest (interstate almost the whole way)
In 1860 it was "you can't get there from here".
