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HISTORY
-OF-
TIOGA COUNTY,
PENNSYLVANIA.
EMBRACING
ITS TOPOGRAPHICAL AND GEOLOGICAL FEATURES; INDIANS AND WHITE
EXPLORERS; BEGINNING AND ORGANIZATION; PIONEERS AND EARLY
SETTLEMENT; EARLY COURTS AND CASES; INTERNAL IMPROVE-
MENTS; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; COAL MINES AND MINING;
PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND OFFICIALS; LEGAL AND MEDICAL PRO
FESSIONS; MILITARY HISTORY; LITERATURE; SKETCHES
OF BOROUGHS, TOWNSHIPS AND VILLAGES ; MATERIAL,
SOCIAL, EDUCATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS PROGRESS;
BIOGRAPHIES AND PORTRAITS OP PIONEERS AND
REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS, ETC., ETC., ETC.
ILLUSTRATED
R. C. BROWN & CO. 1897
PRESS OF
HARRISBURG PUBLISHING COMPANY
HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA
CHAPTER IV. TIOGA COUNTY ORGANIZED. The Landed Interests – Their Influence on Legislation – Tioga County Created – Form and Area – Derivation op Name – The Term Tioga – Boundary Line Dispute- Origin of the Trouble – Various Efforts to Establish Lines – A Tangle op Perplexing Questions- The Latest Commission. OWING to landed … Read more
CHAPTER III. BEGINNING OF TIOGA COUNTY. Purchase of 1784 – Pair Play System – Lycoming Township Formed- Its Boundaries AND Area- Old Tioga Township Erected- A Valuable Document Discovered- Boundaries Defined- Other Record Evidence- Tioga Township Taxables of 1800 – Additional Extracts From Early Records- Panther and Wolf Scalp Bounties. WHEN the purchase of 1784 … Read more
CHAPTER II. THE LAND OF TIOGA. First Occupants- Rugged and Romantic Scenery- Game, Fish and Wild Animals- An Ideal Hunting Ground- Indian Paths- Indian Villages – French Explorers and Missionaries – Boundary Line op the Purchase op 1768- The Old Treaties- The Walker Tragedy- Indian Characteristics and Peculiarities. The territory lying within the present boundaries … Read more
CHAPTER I. TOPOGRAPHICAL AND GEOLOGICAL FEATURES. Surface Transformation- Mountain Ranges- Anticlinals and Synclinals- The Blossburg Mountain Basin- Dip of the Rocks- Wellsboro Anticlinal -Crooked Creek Basin- Valley of the Cowanesque- Streams of the County- The Tioga River- Crooked Creek – Lycoming Creek – Pine Creek -Marsh Creek- The Cowanesque River- Minor Streams- Concluding Observations. BEFORE … Read more
CONTENTS CHAPTER I. Topographical and Geological Features. Surface Transformation- Mountain Ranges- Anticlinals and Synelinals- The Blossburg Mountain Basin- Dip of the Rocks- Wellsboro Anticlinal- Crooked Creek Basin- Valley of the Cowanesque- Streams of the County- The Tioga River- Crooked Creek – Lycoming Creek – Pine Creek – Marsh Creek- The Cowanesque River – Minor Streams … Read more
PREFACE. MORE than one hundred years have passed away since the first white settlers built their cabins along the Cowanesque and Tioga rivers and commenced laying the corner-stone of American civilization within the confines of what is now Tioga county. The Indian occupants had been pushed back farther into the wilderness by the advancing tide … Read more