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Warren County: Gem of the Alleghenies

Posted by Chase Putnam on Nov 30, 2013 in | Comments Off “To the south … an expanse of arable land upon the gentle slope from the volley to the distant heights, dotted with green fields, waving grain, fruitful orchards and farm buildings with ever and anon an oasis of growing timber, remnants of the dense growth of stately pine and hemlock that formerly forested the region, present an alluring scene of beauty and grandeur, excelling...
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Cameron County: Where Legends are Legion

Posted by Michael O'Malley on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off Tucked high away in Pennsylvania’s once foreboding northern tier, the little county called Cameron was a segment of the vast wilderness known for many years as the Commonwealth’s last frontier. In fact, the county was not formally established until 1860, the sixty-sixth of the sixty-seven counties apportioned and organized by the state legislature. Actual settlement of Cameron...
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Historical Sketch of Elk County

Posted by Alice Wessman on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off Elk County is named for that noble animal that once abounded in the region in great numbers. The last native elk, however, was shot in 1867 in Elk County by an Indian, Jim Jacobs. Today, Pennsylvania’s only Elk herd roams freely over the area bounded by Elk and Cameron Counties. It is descended from the Elk herd imported into Pennsylvania in 1913 from Montana and Wyoming. The history of...
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Northumberland County: The Mother County

Posted by Michael O'Malley on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off Although named for the most northern of England’s shires, Northumberland County has been often called by many the “Mother County.” Organized on March 21, 1772, as Pennsylvania’s tenth county, at one time it encompassed eighteen thousand square miles! The county once extended from the Lehigh to the Allegheny rivers, with the New York border as its northern boundary. Its...
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Lycoming County: Many Call It Romantic

Posted by Michael O'Malley on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off Its heritage is so rich that it’s hard to adequately – and accurately – portray the roles Lycoming County has played in the Commonwealth’s history. Since its settlement in the mid-eighteenth century, it has had, according to Sylvester K. Stevens, author of the 1946 guide to the Keystone State’s sixty-seven counties, My Pennsylvania, “one of the most...
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