Chapter 7 – Redbank Township, History of Armstrong County Pennsylvania

Chapter 7
Red Bank Township

Originally Organized in 1806 – Name derived from Red Bank Creek – Indian Appellations for that and Other Streams
– The Creek Declared by Law a
Public Highway – Flatboats – Red Bank Navigation Company – Site of the
Indian “Old Town” – Yost Smith Church – Railroad Project
Agitated in 1852 – Indian Arrow “Factory” – Method of Making
Flintheads – Numerous Tranfers of Property – Freedom Village – Oil Wells – Phenix Furnace
– New Salem – Albright Methodist Church – Independence – Milton – Methodist Episcopal Church
– Assessment List of
the Township for 1876 – Census and Educational Statistics – Rocks – Coal – An Interesting Cave.

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Source: Page(s) 186-200, History of Armstrong County,
Pennsylvania by Robert Walker Smith, Esq. Chicago: Waterman, Watkins &
Co., 1883.
Transcribed November 1998 by Debra Shelkey for the Armstrong County Smith
Project.
Contributed by Debra Shelkey for use by the Armstrong County Genealogy Project
(http://www.pa-roots.com/armstrong/)

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