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[|Life in Mill Towns] This is a fairly extensive gallery of Pennsylvania mill town photos from a website developed by the Harrisburg, PA, NPR and PBS affiliate.

** A row of tenement houses on an unpaved street, Johnstown, PA., circa 1910. **



** Credit: ** Courtesy of the Johnstown Area Heritage Association, http://www.jaha.org/ Crowded into dilapidated housing without indoor plumbing, immigrant iron and steelworker families were often feared and kept at arms length by Old stock Pennsylvanians.