History of Reynoldsville
And Vicinity
Including Winslow Township
By Ward C. Elliott

With much Interesting History of
Western Pennsylvania never
Heretofore Published

TO
GENERAL JAMES POTTER
A Surveyor who, in 1785, with his corps of men, were the
first white persons to visit this vicinity,
This History is Dedicated

THE AUTHOR

PREFACE
The facts given In this history were obtained from early settlers, nearly all of whom are now dead; the State Library, at Harrisburg, the public records there and at Brookville, Pennsylvania; Miss Kate Scott's History of Jefferson County; Doctor William J. McKnight's Pioneer History of Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, his Pioneer Outline History of Northwestern Pennsylvania and other sources.

WARD C. ELLIOTT
Reynoldsville, Pennsylvania.

CHAPTER I - Physical Features
Early Geological Times, Topography, The Wilderness, Fauna and Flora, Meteorology and Climatology, Phenomena

CHAPTER II - Miscellaneous
Indians, The Colonial Period, Early Land Sales. Town of Olney, Other Land Schemes, First Adventurers and Early Settlers, Burying the Dead, Cemeteries, Organization of Jefferson County and Winslow Township....... 37 Mails, Postoffice, Reynoldsville Names, Military, Making Maple Molasses and Sugar

CHAPTER III Miscellaneous (Continued)
Early Customs, The Introduction of Inventions, Tent Shows, Indoor Entertainments Theatrical Troupe, Social Life, Outdoor Meetings, Picnics, Crowds, Schools, Churches, Industries, Lumbering, Rafting, Coal Mining, Polling Places, Prescottville, Illumination

CHAPTER IV - Highways
Indian Trails, Bridle Paths, The Old State Road, Susquehanna and Waterford Turnpike, Milestones, Tollgates, Travel on the Turnpike, Ceres Road, A Proposed Canal, Rail roads and Trolley Lines, Streets and Roads, Airplanes

CHAPTER V - Recent
Secret Societies, Newspapers, Reynoldsville and West Reynoldsville Boroughs, Telegraph and Telephone Lines, Finance, Fire and Water

CHAPTER VI - Unclassified
Poetry, A Sketch of Archibald Campbell

APPENDIX
The First Officers Elected In Washington Township, The First Officers Elected in Winslow Township, The First Officers Elected in Reynoldsville Borough, The First Officers Elected in West Reynoldsville Borough, Burgesses of Reynoldsville Borough, Burgesses of West Reynoldsville Borough, Taxable of Winslow Township in 1860, Postmasters of Reynoldsville, Pennsylvania, Certificate of Incorporation of Reynoldsville Borough