Chapter 10
Kiskiminetas
Indian Origin of the Name---Organization--- Early Visits of the Whites---Christopher Gist---Persons to Whom the Lands were Originally Surveyed---Old Time Attempts to Divide the Township---Churches---Schools---Temperance Element---Improving Navigation in the Kiskiminetas---Mechanical Industries---Statistics of Employments and Population---Postoffices---An Ancient Landmark---Geological Description---"Dunmire's Rock"---Borough of Apollo, Formerly Warren---Assessments at Various Dates---Ferries and Bridges---Religious Matters--- Military---Soldiers Aid Society---Lodges--- Trades and Occupations---Manufacturing and Mercantile History---Statistics---Fires.
Source: Page(s) 232-246, History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania by Robert Walker Smith, Esq. Chicago: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883.
Transcribed December 1998 by Rodney G. Rosborough for the Armstrong County Smith Project.
Contributed by Rodney G. Rosborough for use by the Armstrong County Genealogy Project (http://www.pa-roots.com/armstrong/)
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