…bringing our past into the future
This is a private family plot located off of Blue Ridge Road about a half mile walk back a gas pipeline. There are no tombstones. We’ve been told that there may have been some tombstones a number of years ago. According to the deed for the surrounding property, this family cemetery was for the Joseph … Read more
Located on Blood Road (T307) off of Blue Ridge Road (T360) from Clarington PA. Recorded by Shirley Pierce and Nathan Zipfel, May 1997 Click Here for a pictures of the Cemetery and tombstones. Click Here for a picture of the Methodist Church that existed up until about 1946. Special thanks to Charlotte Clark Burfield for … Read more
Gilfoyle Methodist Church Cemetery Jenks Township, Forest County Located along Rt 36 south of Marienville at the site of the former Gilfoyle Methodist Church. The church closed in 1969 and the building has been converted into a camp. Click Here for a picture of the Church. Click Here for tombstone pictures Last Name … Read more
Cook Forest is the most important tract of virgin timberland to be found in Pennsylvania, and is without rival for size east of the Rockies. The towering pines and hemlocks measure three and four feet in diameter, an occasional giant being five feet through the bole. They rise high in the air, clean, straight, sometimes … Read more
Formation of Forest County Forest County is the only county in the state of Pennsylvania created by a joint resolution of the Legislature. Approved on 11 April 1848, this resolution detached Forest County from Jefferson and Elk Counties. In April 1850 the Legislature fixed the southern boundary of the county at the north bank of … Read more