CHAPTER XXV THE COURT, BENCH, AND BAR OF DELAWARE COUNTY [Please note that this chapter is heavely footnoted.  The footnotes are indicated by an “*” and “(number*).] Beyond the possibility…

CHAPTER XXIV DELAWARE COUNTY CLIMATE, TOGETHER WITH NOTICES OF REMARKABLE WEATHER In 1633 it is recorded that De Vries was frozen up in Wyngaert’s Kill from January 17th to February…

CHAPTER XXIII WILD ANIMALS, FISH, ETC., OF DELAWARE COUNTY When the first European settlers located in Delaware County the territory abounded with wild game, and for more than a hundred…

CHAPTER XXII AGRICULTURE, WITH A BRIEF MENTION OF OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS Gabriel Thomas, the first historian of our State, in his quaint volume published in 1698, in describing the productions,…

CHAPTER XXI REDEMPTIONERS AND SLAVERY IN DELAWARE COUNTY When the system of redemptive servitude first appeared in our history I fail to ascertain, but certain it is that it related…

CHAPTER XIV BOROUGHS, CONTINUED MONTGOMERY – HUGHESVILLE – DUBOISTOWN – PICTURE ROCKS  SALLADASBURG – RALSTON Montgomery – There is no more beautiful scenery to be found in Lycoming County than…

CHAPTER XIII BOROUGHS JERSEY SHORE – SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT – MUNCY – MONTOURSVILLE Jersey Shore – Although the settlement of that part of Lycoming County in the neighborhood of the present…

CHAPTER XII GROWTH OF THE COUNTY – LUMBER INDUSTRY A PICTURESQUE REGION – POPULATION IN 1800 – PIONEER HOMES AND FARMS – THE LUMBER INDUSTRY APPEARS – FINEST LUMBER DISTRICT…

CHAPTER XI GEOLOGY, TOPOGRAPHY AND NATURAL RESOURCES FORMATION – MOUNTAIN PLATEAU LANDS – AGRICULTURAL LAND – GEOLOGICAL MEASURES – MOUNTAIN PEAKS – FERTIL VALLEYS – OUTCROPPING OF VARIOUS FORMATIONS –…

CHAPTER X EARLY INDUSTRIES AN EARLYSIGNBOARD – HESHBON – McKINLEY’S FORGE – EARLY FURNACES SAWMILL AND GRIST MILLS – OTHER INDUSTRIES – HORTICULTURE – FIRST FOUNDRY – EARLY MANUFACTURING  -SALT…