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1885 Seven Counties History - Bradford
County PA
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Scanned from photo purchased by JMT in antique shop
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“HISTORY OF SEVEN COUNTIES presented by the Elmira Weekly
Gazette". It is an “Outline History of Tioga and Bradford Counties in
Pennsylvania, Chemung, Steuben, Tioga, Tompkins and Schuyler in New York by
TOWNSHIPS, VILLAGES, BORO’S AND CITIES.” Written expressly for the Gazette
Company, Elmira, N. Y. Copyright 1885.From AN OUTLINE
HISTORY of Tioga and
Bradford
Counties in Pennsylvania, Chemung, Steuben,
Tioga, Tompkins and Schuyler in New York by TOWNSHIPS, VILLAGES, BORO'S AND
CITIES"
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STANDING STONE
Standing Stone township was formed in 1841, taken
from Herrick and Wysox. It is bounded on the north by Herrick, on the east
by Herrick, on the south by Wyalusing and the Susquehanna river, on the west by
Susquehanna river and Wysox. It is one of the oldest settled townships in
the county of Bradford, and its name Standing Stone given it by reason of a
certain large stone standing in the west bank of the Susquehanna river, has
distinguished it from the earliest history of the Susquehanna valley.
Settlements were commenced in the present limits of the township previous to the
revolutionary war; under Connecticut titles.
The Lehigh Valley railroad runs through the
township from north to south following the valley of the Susquehanna, and have
two stations, Rummerfield and Standing Stone. Along the valley of the
Susquehanna the soil is very productive, being a rich alluvial deposit.
The soil upon the uplands to the eastward are being cultivated, and are becoming
very well adapted to grazing and the dairy. The town is watered by the
Susquehanna river, Rummerfield and Fitch’s Creeks.
The early settlers were Lemuel Fitch, Simon
Spalding, Henry Birney, Anthony Rummerfield, Richard Fitzgerald, Richard Loomis,
Walter Walters, John Bigelow, Jr., Nathaniel Walters, Stephen Wilcox, Elisha
Satterlee, David McCormick, Peter Loop, Walter Westover, Abram Westbrook,
William Jackson, Amos Bennett, Silas Beardsley, Theophilus Moyer, Henry Birney,
John Hutchinson, Samuel Gorden, Jonathan Stevens, William Houch, Anthony
LaFever, Peter Miller, Jacob Primer, (colored,) Cherick Westbrook, Henry Van
Curen, David Hawley, David Eicklor, Cornelius Ennis, Levi Ennis, Hiram Gorden.
--Johathan Stevens, an early settler of Standing
Stone, served three years in the continental army.
--The lands in Standing Stone township were among
the first grants made by the Susquehanna
Land Company in Bradford county,
having been sold to David Smith, in 1774.
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