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…

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…

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…

CHAPTER XI GEOLOGY, TOPOGRAPHY AND NATURAL RESOURCES FORMATION – MOUNTAIN PLATEAU LANDS – AGRICULTURAL LAND – GEOLOGICAL MEASURES – MOUNTAIN PEAKS – FERTIL VALLEYS – OUTCROPPING OF VARIOUS FORMATIONS –…

CHAPTER X EARLY INDUSTRIES AN EARLYSIGNBOARD – HESHBON – McKINLEY’S FORGE – EARLY FURNACES SAWMILL AND GRIST MILLS – OTHER INDUSTRIES – HORTICULTURE – FIRST FOUNDRY – EARLY MANUFACTURING  -SALT…

CHAPTER IX EARLY ROADS – STAGE COACHES – CANALS – RAILROADS FIRST HIGHWAYS – THE GENESEE ROAD – COUDERSPORT PIKE – RIVER THE FIRST MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION – CANAL BUILDING…

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…

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…

CHAPTER VISETTLEMENT AT MUNCY – INDIAN DEPREDATIONS – CATHERINE SMITH MUNCY MANOR DIVIDED – JOHN HEADY BUILDS FORT – LOCAL EFFECT OF THE REVOLUTION – PRESENCE OF TORIES – FREQUENT…

CHAPTER XX TRAVELING AND TRANSPORTATION, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE RAILROADS IN THE COUNTY In these days of rapid transit, when inside of eighty days a man can “put a…