Month: April 2011

CHAPTER XIV BOROUGHS, CONTINUED MONTGOMERY – HUGHESVILLE – DUBOISTOWN – PICTURE ROCKS  SALLADASBURG – RALSTON Montgomery – There is no more beautiful scenery to be found in Lycoming County than that of the Muncy Hills and in the vicinity of Montgomery, lying at the base of Penny Hill, from the top of which a picture … Read more

CHAPTER XIII BOROUGHS JERSEY SHORE – SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT – MUNCY – MONTOURSVILLE Jersey Shore – Although the settlement of that part of Lycoming County in the neighborhood of the present borough of Jersey Shore was not made until sometime after that in the vicinity of Muncy, the two municipalities were incorporated at the same time, … Read more

CHAPTER XII GROWTH OF THE COUNTY – LUMBER INDUSTRY A PICTURESQUE REGION – POPULATION IN 1800 – PIONEER HOMES AND FARMS – THE LUMBER INDUSTRY APPEARS – FINEST LUMBER DISTRICT IN THE WORLD – SAW MILLS – ENORMOUS PRODUCTION OF LUMBER – PASSING OF THE LUMBER INDUSTRY – MANUFACTURING – SCENERY, CLIMATE AND WATER There … Read more

CHAPTER XI GEOLOGY, TOPOGRAPHY AND NATURAL RESOURCES FORMATION – MOUNTAIN PLATEAU LANDS – AGRICULTURAL LAND – GEOLOGICAL MEASURES – MOUNTAIN PEAKS – FERTIL VALLEYS – OUTCROPPING OF VARIOUS FORMATIONS – GLACIER PERIOD – COAL – IRON ORE – STONE The geological formations of Lycoming County comprise all the rock formations from the carboniferous measures down … Read more

CHAPTER X EARLY INDUSTRIES AN EARLYSIGNBOARD – HESHBON – McKINLEY’S FORGE – EARLY FURNACES SAWMILL AND GRIST MILLS – OTHER INDUSTRIES – HORTICULTURE – FIRST FOUNDRY – EARLY MANUFACTURING  -SALT WELLS – SALT MANUFACTUREING – CEMENT ROCK A signboard erected on the scene of a Lycoming Creek Valley real estate development, through a misspelling of … Read more

CHAPTER IX EARLY ROADS – STAGE COACHES – CANALS – RAILROADS FIRST HIGHWAYS – THE GENESEE ROAD – COUDERSPORT PIKE – RIVER THE FIRST MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION – CANAL BUILDING – FIRST RAILROAD COMPLETED – OTHER RAILROADS – TRANSPORTATION OF LUMBER – PENNSYLVANIAS SYSTEM – PETER HERDIC – RESIDENT RAILROAD OFFICIALS – READING RAILROAD – … Read more

CHAPTER VIII OFFICERS OF LYCOMING COUNTY PROTHONOTANIES – SHERIFFS – REGISTERS AND RECORDERS – CORONERS – DISTRICT ATTORNEYS – COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. The officers of Lycoming County since it was erected as a separate organization, with the date of their appointment or election, have been as follows: Prothonotaries – Clerk of the court of quarter sessions … Read more

CHAPTER VII LYCOMING COUNTY ERECTED AN ATTRACTIVE LOCATION – NECESSITY FOR A NEW COUNTY – FAILURE OF MEASURE IN 1786  –  EFFORT TO REMOVE COUNTY SEAT DEFEATED – BILL ERECTING COUNTY PASSED IN 1795 – EXTENT OF NEW COUNTY – FIRST OFFICIALS – SELECTING A COUNTY SEAT – COURTS ORGANIZED – RIVAL CLAIMANTS FOR COUNTY … Read more

CHAPTER VISETTLEMENT AT MUNCY – INDIAN DEPREDATIONS – CATHERINE SMITH MUNCY MANOR DIVIDED – JOHN HEADY BUILDS FORT – LOCAL EFFECT OF THE REVOLUTION – PRESENCE OF TORIES – FREQUENT MASSACRES – SETTLERS ORGANIZE DEFENSE – SHORTAGE OF ARMS AND AMMUNITION – CATBARINE SMITH – THE WYOMING MASSACRE A number of squatters had settled on … Read more