Chapter 11 – Pine (Including Boggs), History of Armstrong County Pennsylvania

Chapter 11
Pine (Including Boggs)

Name – Erected from Territory in Kittanning Township – Decreased in Size by
the Establishment of Boggs in 1878 – (Note)-Mahoning Creek and its Indian Name
– The Old Path to Le Bœuf – The Indian Town of Mahoning – Orrsville –
History of the Original Land Tracts – Ore Hill Furnace – William Turnbull-His
Mill on Pine Creek, Built Prior to 1790 – Peart’s Mills – Ineffective Search
for Oil – Associate Reformed Church – The Wallis Lands – An Ancient Earthwork
Near “Slabtown” – Stewardson Furnace – North American Land Company’s
Tracts – Goheenville and Other Hamlets – Population, Mercantile Appraisement
and Assessment of the Township – Education Statistics – Geology

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Source: Page(s) 247-258, History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania by
Robert Walker Smith, Esq. Chicago: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883.
Transcribed December 1998 by Jim Wise for the Armstrong County Smith Project.
Contributed by Jim Wise for use by the Armstrong County Genealogy Project
(http://www.pa-roots.com/armstrong/)

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