CHAPTER IX EARLY ROADS – STAGE COACHES – CANALS – RAILROADS FIRST HIGHWAYS – THE GENESEE ROAD – COUDERSPORT PIKE – RIVER THE FIRST MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION – CANAL BUILDING…

CHAPTER VIII OFFICERS OF LYCOMING COUNTY PROTHONOTANIES – SHERIFFS – REGISTERS AND RECORDERS – CORONERS – DISTRICT ATTORNEYS – COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. The officers of Lycoming County since it was erected…

CHAPTER VII LYCOMING COUNTY ERECTED AN ATTRACTIVE LOCATION – NECESSITY FOR A NEW COUNTY – FAILURE OF MEASURE IN 1786  –  EFFORT TO REMOVE COUNTY SEAT DEFEATED – BILL ERECTING…

CHAPTER VISETTLEMENT AT MUNCY – INDIAN DEPREDATIONS – CATHERINE SMITH MUNCY MANOR DIVIDED – JOHN HEADY BUILDS FORT – LOCAL EFFECT OF THE REVOLUTION – PRESENCE OF TORIES – FREQUENT…

CHAPTER XX TRAVELING AND TRANSPORTATION, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE RAILROADS IN THE COUNTY In these days of rapid transit, when inside of eighty days a man can “put a…

CHAPTER XIX MANNERS AND CUSTOMS – HOW INHABITANTS OF DELAWARE COUNTY LIVED IN FORMER YEARS Houses. The progress of a nation is traced not in the life of an individual,…

CHAPTER XVIII CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS We have little or no information as to the criminal code which maintained among the early Swedish and Dutch settlers on the Delaware.* The fragmentary…

CHAPTER XVII THE CIVIL WAR The war of sections, which had overhung the country for over forty years, burst upon the nation on Saturday, April 18, 1861, when the American…

CHAPTER XVI THE REMOVAL OF THE COUNTY-SEAT TO MEDIA In considering the history of the removal of the county-seat from the ancient borough of Chester to Media, the present location,…

CHAPTER XV THE TEN-HOUR MOVEMENT One of the most important movements, and, in the results which have flowed from it, of great moment to the people of Delaware County, the…