Chapter 13
Cowanshannock
It�s Organization in 1848— First Officers— Indian Purchase Line of
1768—The Original Land Warrants— Timothy Pickering & Co.�s Tracts—
An Ancient Earthwork— Relics— Land Disputes Settled by Arbitration—
Village of Atwood— U.P. Church— Green Oak— Town of Bradford— St. John�s
Lutheran Church— Dunkard Church— An Early Day Indian Encounter— Example
of the Low Price of Land— Eight Hundred Acres for $44— The Roberts
Lands— First Store Opened in 1831 by the McElhinneys— The Findley Lands—
Huskens� Run and the Man it was Named After— Rural Valley— The Bryan
Lands— Fourth of July, 1837— Salem Reformed Church—Isaac
Simpson—Roads— Schools— Miscellaneous Statistics— Rural Village—
Mercantile and Other Occupations— Educational Matters— Religious—
Postoffice— I.O.O.F. Lodge.Source: Page(s) 286-309, History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania by
Robert Walker Smith, Esq. Chicago: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883.
Transcribed December 1999 by Pamela Clark for the Armstrong County Smith
Project.
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