Lilly was targeted for a massive Ku Klux Klan demonstration because local coal mines had hired Catholic immigrants and fired Klan members. Four hundred hooded Klansmen arrived by train early on this April evening and paraded to Piper's Hill where . . . — — Map (db m39277) HM
This Monument marks the site of the Hitching Shed
- at the base of Plane No. 4 of the APRR, in the settlement of "Foot of Four.” -
Inclined Plane No. 4 was constructed - circa 1833 - by manipulating the terrain to make a navigable path . . . — — Map (db m149276) HM
The first commercial mining of coal in Cambria County (c. 1825) was by Matthew and Michael Myers - sons of Joseph Moyer - the founder of Our Community - in what would later be called the "Lemon” seam - about a half mile west of Lilly.
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