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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM152D_chamber-of-commerce_Meadville-PA.html
Founded in 1807 as the Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Manufacture and the Useful Arts, the nation's third oldest Chamber of Commerce met here in the old log courthouse, led by Crawford Messenger editor Thomas Atkinson and Holland Land C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM152C_mcgill-house_Saegertown-PA.html
Built in 1802 by Patrick McGill, this log house one of the oldest surviving homes in the French Creek Valley. McGill was a farmer, organized the first school, and served in the War of 1812. Saegertown was originally known as McGill's Settlement.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM152B_rural-electrification_Saegertown-PA.html
Here on August 5, 1936, the State's first rural electric pole was placed by the Northwestern Rural Electric Cooperative Association. Incorporated on April 30, 1936, this was Pennsylvania's first such cooperative. By 1941, thirteen more had been fo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM152A_french-creek_Cochranton-PA.html
The Riviere aux Boeufs of the French, renamed by George Washington in 1753. It had an important part in the French and Indian War and the settlement of northwestern Pennsylvania.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1529_french-creek-feeder_Meadville-PA.html
The canal bed beside the road is part of a channel constructed 1827-1834 to take water from Meadville to Conneaut Lake for the Erie Extension Canal. Two miles below here the Feeder crossed the creek by aqueduct.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1526_oil-producing-salt-well_Conneautville-PA.html
Drilled here in 1815 by Samuel Magaw and William Clark to reach brine, a frontier source of salt. When it was deepened by Daniel Shryock to 300 feet in 1819, oil was struck. Because of this unwanted byproduct, the well and salt works here were clo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1524_erie-extension-canal_Conneautville-PA.html
Part of the old channel lies near the highway. The Conneaut Line, from Erie to near Conneaut Lake, was begun by the State, 1838, and completed by the Erie Canal Company, 1843-44. Canal in use until 1871.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1522_erie-extension-canal_Hartstown-PA.html
Cut off from the rest of Pymatuning Swamp by a 3-mile bank, this became the 600-acre "Pymatuning Reservoir" of the canal, which lay at its western edge. Begun by the State, 1838; finished by the Erie Canal Company, 1843-44.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM119B_bishop-james-m-thoburn_Meadville-PA.html
Methodist missionary to India, south Asia, and the Philippines, 1859 to 1908. Upon retirement he lived in Meadville until his death in 1922. He is buried in Greendale Cemetery.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1199_first-christian-church_Meadville-PA.html
Reflecting the diversity of early religious life, the first church here was the Central or Second Presbyterian acquired in 1904 by the Christian Church. In 1963 a new sanctuary was built on North Main Extension and the Landmark brick Church razed.