History of Armstrong County Pennsylvania

Chapter 5 Allegheny (now Bethel, Parks and Gilpen) Division of the Township in 1878-Origin of the name Allegheny-English and French Traders-Conrad Weiser and Christian Frederick Post-The Earliest Land Tracts Surveyed and Seated-Valuation at Different Periods-Names of Pioneers-Churches-Schools-Mills-A Notable Fox Hunt-Old-Time Fourth of July Celebration-Railroad Stations-Towns-Leechburg-Lively Enterprises-Canal Packet Lines-Taxable Inhabitants in 1832-Steamboat Arrival in 1838-The Town … Read more

Chapter 7 Kittanning Blanket Hill � Relics of the Battle Fought There � Original Tracts of Land In the Township � Residents In 1805 � Beers� Mills � John Guld � a Circle Hunt � The Paper Town of “Benton” � Churches � Population � Temperature � Postal � Humboldt Gardens � Geology. KITTANNING township, … Read more

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 … Read more

Chapter 7 Red Bank Township Part 1 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 … Read more

Chapter 7 Red Bank Township Part 2 The rest of the territory of this township, except a portion in the southeastern part, was covered by warrants to Harmon LeRoy & Co., and to Wilhelm Willink & Co., that is, to the Holland Land Company. That company, by H. J. Huidekoper, attorney-in-fact, agreed, sometime in September, … Read more

Chapter 8 Plum Creek Township Derivation of the Name –Organised in 1810 — Very Early Settlement �Blockhouses — An Indian Attack — Women Making Bullets — Children Captured by the Savages — Bridging Crooked Creek — First Application to the Court for a Bridge — Absalom Woodward — David Ralston — A Tavern Tragedy of … Read more

Chapter 9 Wayne Township Set off from Plum Creek in 1821 – Named in Honor of �Mad Anthony� – The Original Land Tracts – Their Early Owners and the Settlers Upon Them – The North American Land Company – Gen. Robert Orr Succeeds the Company in Ownership of Their Lands in Armstrong County – Holland … Read more

Chapter 15 Mahoning Township Organized in 1851 from Territory in Madison, Pine, Wayne and Red Bank Townships- Boundaries- First Election- Mahoning Creek Navigation Company- The Early Settlers and First Owners of the Land Tracts- Transfers- Village of Texas, now Oakland- Joint Stock Company- Methodist Episcopal Church- Baptist Church- Brethren in Christ Congregation- Oakland Classical and … Read more

XXVII Perry Township Organization of the Township – The Pioneers – Their Work and their Hardships – Early Roads and Primitive Manufactures – The Pioneer Schools – Truby’s Mill – The Borough of Queenstown. Perry Township was formerly a part of Sugar Creek. In 1845 it was organized as Parry, with the following limits: Brady’s … Read more