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Armstrong County, Pennsylvania Volume 1; her people past and present, embracing a history of the county and a genealogical and biographical record of representative families - Softcover

 
9781235281778: Armstrong County, Pennsylvania Volume 1; her people past and present, embracing a history of the county and a genealogical and biographical record of representative families
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...for the purpose of improving this creek, and Levi Gibson and Samuel C. Orr were appointed commissioners. That act also made it lawful for all persons owning lands adjoining this stream to erect milldams across it, and other waterworks along it, to keep them in good repair, and draw off enough water to operate them on their own land, but required them "to make a slope from the top, descending fifteen feet for every foot the dam is high, and not less than forty feet in breadth," so as to afford a good navigation and not to infringe the rights and privileges of any owner of private property. The first flatboat fleet that descended this stream was piloted by Samuel Knapp, in full Indian costume, in 1832 or 1833--two boats loaded with sawed lumber, owned by Uriah Matson, which found a good market in Cincinnati, with the proceeds of which Matson purchased the goods with which he opened his store at Brookville, Jefferson county. By the act of Assembly April 17, 1854, the Red Bank Navigation Company was incorporated, and authorized, among other things, to clean and clear the Red Bank, Sandy Lick and North Fork creeks of all rocks, bars and other obstructions; to erect other dams and locks; to regulate the chutes of dams; to control the waters by brackets and otherwise for the purpose of navigation; to levy tolls on boards and other sawed stuff, square and other timber, and boats that might pass down these creeks, to be collected at the mouth of Red Bank. The company had begun the work of improvement before the charter was granted, and had already expended over $8,000. Much of the blasting between New Bethlehem and the mouth of the creek was done by Lewis W. Corbett in 1850. EARLY SETTLEMENT Some of the settlers of this township at different periods were: ...

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  • PublisherRarebooksclub.com
  • Publication date2012
  • ISBN 10 1235281779
  • ISBN 13 9781235281778
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages422

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