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The Indians called Pine Creek "Tiadaghton," which meant river of pines. These now-gone pines brought drastic changes to Pine Creek. Logging began in the 1800s. Before the logging, the thick soil held rainwater like a sponge. It releas…
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Explore Pennsylvania's Grand CanyonImagine a vast sheet of ice, hundreds of feet thick, inching over the landscape like a giant bulldozer. Several such glaziers sculpted this landscape. As the last glacier receded north more than 10,000 years ago,…
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Born at our nation's lowest point, the CCC rebuilt a land and its people. We all owe thanks to the thousands of men who helped build Pennsylvania's parks and reforest its hills. Beginning late in 1929, the Great Depression was a desperate time fo…
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In memory of the Soldiers and Sailors of Tioga County who died that the nation might live.
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This testimonial is dedicated by the North American survivors, colleagues of E.A. VanValkenburg during the quarter-century in which he directed the publication of the Philadelphia North American. As its editor he inspired and directed public opini…
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Replica erected by the Tioga County Historical Society 1985 Wellsboro, Pennsylvania Benefactors Citizens and Northern Bank The Packer Foundation John Nicoll Estate Trustees Charles Balleine - Lowell Coolidge James Dunham - Warren Goo…
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A founder of Wellsboro September 4, 1764 - November 6, 1819
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Formed March 26, 1804 from Lycoming County. The name, derived from an Indian word meaning "the forks of a stream," honors the Tioga River. Wellsboro, the county seat, was laid out in 1806; incorporated 1830. On Pine Creek is Pennsylvania's Grand C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMT02_pine-creek-path_Wellsboro-PA.html
A Seneca trail from the Genesee to the Susquehanna at Jersey Shore, forked one mile south of here. One branch ran through the gorge of Pine Creek; the other crossed the hills, following Darling Run and Babb Creek back to Pine Creek at Blackwell.
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In March 1933, the federal government created the CCC to combat the massive unemployment of the Great Depression. Continuing until 1942, the CCC enrolled some three million youths nationwide. In Pennsylvania, 194,572 men were enrolled at 114 camps…
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