Town's Decline
In 1869 the first railroad was built through Pike County, bypassing New Philadelphia to the north for Barry, which had a train station. Businesses moved there for better access. The population of New Philadelphia rapidly declined. By the end of the nineteenth century, some of the townsite had been reverted to farmland for cultivation, but other areas were inhabited through the 1920s.
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