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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21DQ_2004-bicentennial-raft_Curwensville-PA.html
On March 13, 2004 an authentic timber raft 28 ft. x 110 ft. launched from this point for a 26-mile journey through the county to below Shawville. The raft, including a cabin, was built by over 100 volunteers using logs supplied by Robbins Lumber, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21DK_coalport_Coalport-PA.html
The Reilly Post Office served the area until 1883 when the borough was incorporated and the name changed. Growth came with the arrival of the Bell's Gap Railroad in 1883 which opened the area to coal mining. The once bustling town had theatres, sa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20JJ_mcgees-mills-covered-bridge_Mahaffey-PA.html
Only remaining covered bridge over any branch of the Susquehanna River. Thomas McGee built this single span Burr arch truss bridge in 1873 for $175 using hand hewed white pine timbers from the area. It was the last covered bridge built in Clearfie…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20JI_rev-a-w-tozer_Mahaffey-PA.html
One of the most significant evangelical Christian authors of the 20th century, Tozer was born a few miles south of here in LaJose (Newburg). A pastor with The Christian and Missionary Alliance and a nationally recognized theologian, lecturer and w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20JH_trout-water_Curwensville-PA.html
September 23, 2013 the PA Fish & Boat Commission (PFBC) expanded trout stocking to the Curwensville area from the confluence of Anderson Creek downstream to Porter's Bridge. This 2.8 mile addition will receive some 2,200 trout April 10, 2014 for t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20J1_mcclure-cemetery_Curwensville-PA.html
Revolutionary Soldiers
Arthur Bell
John Bell
William Bloom Sr.
James McCracken
Thomas McClure
Mark Jordan
Nicholas Straw
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20IK_last-raft_Mahaffey-PA.html
From the 1840's until c1912, thousands of county rafts floated billions of board feet of timber to mills in Lock Haven, Williamsport and Marietta. On March 14, 1938, a reenactment "Last Raft" left a traditional assembly point at Charlie McGee's La…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20I4_grampian_Grampian-PA.html
Originally called Pennville, the Grampian Hills P.O. served the area (1833-1892) when it became Grampian. The first county rural mail delivery started here in 1900, carrier E.A. Spencer. In the 1820s Quaker pioneers built a log meeting house at th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20I3_hillcrest-cemetery_Clearfield-PA.html
Founded in 1881 it is the burial place of Gov. William Bigler, banker Ai F. Boynton, Dr. Dorothea McClure Gilmore, State Treasurer F.G. Harris, Hon. James Kerr, first county resident elected judge David Krebs, last WWI vet Alfred Livergood,
Alfr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20I2_hogback-porters-bridge_Clearfield-PA.html
A single-span Pennsylvania (Petit) through truss bridge crossed the West Branch of the Susquehanna River here from 1893 to 1989. Replacing a wooden structure destroyed by fire, it took its name from nearby geographic features. This 215 foot pin-co…