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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMT7S_lycoming-county_Williamsport-PA.html
Formed April 13, 1795 out of Northumberland County. The name (from a Delaware Indian word) honors Lycoming Creek. Williamsport, the County Seat, became a borough , 1806, and a city, 1866. Once a great lumbering center. Birthplace of Little League …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMT7R_williamsport_South-Williamsport-PA.html
Laid out 1795 by Michael Ross. Incorporated as a borough 1806; as a city 1866. At one time a leading lumber center of the nation. Trade and travel center for over a century.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMT7P_susquehanna-log-boom_South-Williamsport-PA.html
Six-mile series of piers, built by a company incorporated in 1846; used to collect and store logs during the spring log drives down the West Branch. Helped make Williamsport the world's lumber capital prior to 1900. Badly damaged in 1889 flood, th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMT7J_eagle-grange-no-1_Montgomery-PA.html
Pennsylvania's first Grange, officially organized March 4, 1871, two and a half years before organization of the Pennsylvania State Grange on Sept. 18, 1873. The National Grange (order of Patrons of Husbandry) had been established in 1867. Objecti…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMT72_carl-e-stotz_Williamsport-PA.html
Founder of Little League Baseball and Commissioner through 1955. Stotz developed the Little League idea in 1938; in the next year three teams played 24 games. It was at this site that Stotz established field distances for the pre-teenage players. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMT0Q_williamson-road_Williamsport-PA.html
Built in 1792-96 by land agent Charles Williamson to open the Genesee lands in N.Y. From Trout Run, it cut through the wilderness to Lawrenceville by the same general route as the present highway.