Jefferson County: Of Wilderness Tamed
Posted by Michael O'Malley on Nov 27, 2013 in | Comments Off on Jefferson County: Of Wilderness Tamed Jefferson County. Its hallmarks are as disparate as Thomas Jefferson and Punxsutawney Phil. Village names as dissimilar as Panic and Desire. Inhabitants as distinctive as Indian chief Cornplanter and Moravian missionary John Heckewelder. And a tranquility which masks the turbulence of the nineteenth century’s lumber boom that spawned settlement and numerous ancillary industries....read more