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 in 1852 - Indian Arrow "Factory" - Method of Making Flintheads - Numerous Tranfers of Property - Freedom Village - Oil Wells - Phenix Furnace - New Salem - Albright Methodist Church - Independence - Milton - Methodist Episcopal Church - Assessment List of the Township for 1876 - Census and Educational Statistics - Rocks - Coal - An Interesting Cave.

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Source: Page(s) 186-200, History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania by Robert Walker Smith, Esq. Chicago: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883.
Transcribed November 1998 by Debra Shelkey for the Armstrong County Smith Project.
Contributed by Debra Shelkey for use by the Armstrong County Genealogy Project (http://www.pa-roots.com/armstrong/)

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