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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AT6_richard-h-burfoot_Luthersburg-PA.html
A famous portrait and scenic artist, Burfoot came to the US in the 1880's and Clearfield County in 1895. His home later in life was at this site with a studio in his yard. He also had studios in Pittsburgh, Washington and New York. His work is reg…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AT5_kurtz-bros_Clearfield-PA.html
In 1894, Chas. T. Kurtz (1874-1956) started Kurtz Bros. He bought this site, the former Clearfield Fire Brick Co., in 1910 for his school supply and printing business. Headquartered in Clearfield, the company greatly expanded and has operated more…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AT4_millers-landing_Karthaus-PA.html
From the 1840's until c1912, thousands of county rafts floated billions of board feet of timber to sawmills in Lock Haven, Williamsport and Marietta. A ring rock where rafts moored is still located along the river at the site of Lewis Miller's Hot…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AEP_catherine-r-hoyt_Penfield-PA.html
She tended the troops in Lanesboro, Mass. during the war. After the war, she married Revolutionary War soldier Seth Hoyt and some years later they moved to New Haven, Vermont. After her husband's death, she came to Huston Township where her childr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM278K_indian-mill_Clearfield-PA.html
Native Americans grew corn (maize) for a food source. Planted in hills, not rows, the cobs were square, not rounded. They had two rows of corn on each flat surface. Planted when the dogwood bloomed they dropped a fish in each hole with four grains…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM278J_this-tablet-marks-the-junction_Luthersburg-PA.html
This tablet marks the junction of the Snow Shoe & Packerville Turnpike with the Erie Turnpike, also known as the road from Reading to Presque Isle, Susquehanna & Waterford Turnpike, Bellefonte & Waterford Turnpike, Cream Hill Turnpike, and now Lak…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM278I_boggs-township_West-Decatur-PA.html
Residents' names when the township formed in 1838 included: Adams, Beers, Benehoofs, Bushes, Gearharts, Gosses, Grays, Haneys, Hesses, Hummels, Kepharts, Litzes, Lumadues, Millers, Peters, Shaws, Shimmels, Smeals, Stones, Turners, Williams, Wilson…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM278H_kyler-homestead_Philipsburg-PA.html
Located in the 1796 State Road that followed the Indian Path; Conrad Kyler settled here in 1803. Abe Kyler occupied the log house c. 1820 until he sold to Ed Perks. The adjacent Kyler burial ground (Perks Cemetery) has the oldest marked graves in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM278G_ames-field_Kylertown-PA.html
Named for airmail pilot Charles Ames who died flying in 1925, the county's first airfield began as an emergency stop on the transcontinental airmail route from New York - San Francisco which started in 1918. In 1924 a navigational beacon was insta…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM278D_woodland_Woodland-PA.html
The first major commercial brick-works in the county (Woodland Fire Brick, 1870, and Hope Fire Brick, 1872) were located here and consolidated into Woodland Fire Brick Co. Ltd. in 1875. In 1884 it was sold to Harbison & Walker Co. of Pittsburgh, w…