Explore Pennsylvania's Grand Canyon
Imagine a vast sheet of ice, hundreds of feet thick, inching over this landscape like a giant bulldozer. Several such glaciers sculpted this landscape. As the last glacier receded north more than 10,000 . . . — — Map (db m223098) HM
While acting as scouts for the Williamson Road party in 1792, Robert and Benjamin Patterson discovered coal at present-day Blossburg. The first drift to mine the coal was opened on Bear Creek by David Clemons about 1815. — — Map (db m73097) HM
First secretary of labor in 1913-21, Congressman, and labor leader, spent the greater part of his life here. He was born in Scotland, 1862,
worked in the Arnot mines, rising to prominence as a labor statesman. His home is opposite. Died in 1934. — — Map (db m245715) HM
Dedicated in memory
of the Sons and Daughters
of this area who
served in the military
forces of their country
[Armed Services Emblems]
Revolutionary War • War of 1812 • Mexican War
Civil War • Spanish/American War • World War I . . . — — Map (db m222907) WM
United States Army
Pennsylvania National Guard
Killed in Action - Taqaddum Iraq
Operation Iraqi Freedom
1st Battalion, 28th Infantry Division
Freedom Isn't Free
SSG Ryan S. Ostrom served with Company B-109th Infantry . . . — — Map (db m91237) WM
World War One - The Great War
Liberty Area Veterans
[Died in Service]
Emory H. Blackwell • Arthur M. Brion
Clyde Skelly
Liberty's World War II
Honor Roll
[Died in Service]
Charles M. Maneval • Gordon McCarthy
Elmer S. . . . — — Map (db m91227) WM
At Liberty was located a storage depot known as the Block House. It was built of logs, about 20x40 feet in size. Supplies were kept there and bread baked for the road builders, 1792-96. — — Map (db m43219) HM
This tablet marks the camp of the pioneers constructing the Williamson Road. Weather conditions delaying the construction. Canoes were built and used from this camp to Apple Island 1792-93 Placed by Wellsboro Chapter Daughters of the American . . . — — Map (db m14318) HM
One of the early railroads in the Northeast was completed in 1840 from Corning, N.Y. to Blossburg. It was built by the Tioga Navigation Company to connect the Chemung Canal, and the Erie Railroad, with the local coal fields. — — Map (db m14301) HM
In 1936 seventy-five percent of Pennsylvania farms had no electric service. During the next five years, with Federal support, 14 consumer-owned cooperatives were formed in the State. Tri-county Rural Electric Cooperative, serving much of . . . — — Map (db m14288) HM
In commemoration of Mansfield's Sesquicentennial Celebration and as a tribute to the Mansfield alumni, students, faculty, staff and founders who have so honorably served our country as members of the Armed Services, this memorial is presented with . . . — — Map (db m120349) WM
In Memoriam
Veterans
of All Wars
This park is dedicated to all Mansfield
area veterans who have served their country
with pride and honor, who by their
sacrifice have preserved freedom for every citizen.
This memorial . . . — — Map (db m120356) HM
Here the road builders late in 1792 ended work. After facing starvation, they were rescued by canoes and supplies from Painted Post. Canoe Camp derived its name from the incident. — — Map (db m14316) HM
Killed in Action
Gerald N. Austin • Gordon Bailey • Sgt. John F. Cox
Croix de Guerre [sic on marker]
Nurse Sylvene A. Nye
[Honor Roll of Veterans by community]
That government of the people, by the people,
for the people, shall . . . — — Map (db m120360) WM
These elm trees and this tablet were
placed here by the Mansfield State Normal
School, in honor of her five-hundred young
men and young women, who, in the spirit of
sacrifice and devotion, gave their services
to their country.
In . . . — — Map (db m120355) WM
[Majority of the marker is natural history information about the Rattlesnake and is not transcribed]
Home Sweet Forest
Wild, forested areas like our 2.1 million acres of Pennsylvania State Forests and Parks are some of the last remaining . . . — — Map (db m223072) HM
In March 1933, the federal government created the CCC to combat the massive unemployment of the Great Depression. Continuing until 1942, the CCC enrolled some three million youths nationwide. In Pennsylvania, 194,572 men were enrolled at 114 camps. . . . — — Map (db m43209) HM
[Majority of the marker is natural history information about the Bald Eagle and comparing it to the Turkey Vulture and Osprey, and is not transcribed]
Good News About Eagles
Not long ago, bald eagles faced a bleak future. Heavily hunted . . . — — Map (db m223069) HM
Imagine more than two million acres of deep forests, rugged
hills, and fast-flowing streams conserved for your benefit and
enjoyment-the largest block of public land between New
York City and Chicago. This is the Pennsylvania Wilds,
covering 12 . . . — — Map (db m223097) HM
The pen name of poet, woodsman, outdoor writer and pioneer conservationist George Washington Sears (1821-1890), a resident of Wellsboro, Pa. From near this spot he wrote the first prose and verse descriptions of the Pine Creek Gorge. — — Map (db m43185) HM
The Indians called Pine Creek “Tiadaghton,” which meant river of pines. These now-gone pines brought drastic changes to Pine Creek.
Logging began in the 1800s. Before the logging, the thick soil held rainwater like a sponge. It released it . . . — — Map (db m93076) HM
Explore Pennsylvania’s Grand Canyon Imagine a vast sheet of ice, hundreds of feet thick, inching over the landscape like a giant bulldozer. Several such glaziers sculpted this landscape. As the last glacier receded north more than 10,000 years . . . — — Map (db m90137) HM
Has been designated a Registered Natural Landmark
Under the provisions of the Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935.
This site possesses exceptional value in illustrating the natural history of the United States. — — Map (db m199463) HM
The thousands of footsteps that cross this area each year take their toll on plant life. People compact the soil so much that eventually plant roots can no longer probe through it, and the plants die.
In 1982, the Bureau of State Parks . . . — — Map (db m223077) HM
Born at our nation’s lowest point, the CCC rebuilt a land and its people. We all owe thanks to the thousands of men who helped build Pennsylvania’s parks and reforest its hills.
Beginning late in 1929, the Great Depression was a desperate time . . . — — Map (db m90048) HM
Born at our nation’s lowest point, the CCC rebuilt a land and its people. We all owe thanks to the thousands of men who helped build Pennsylvania’s parks and reforest its hills.
Beginning late in 1929, the Great Depression was a desperate time . . . — — Map (db m199464) HM
In honor and memory of all
those who lost their lives
on 9/11/01 and our love and
thoughts to all surviving
families and friends. — — Map (db m184254) WM
This memorial is erected in
loving memory of our members
of the armed forces living and
dead who gave of themselves
to the land of the free and
the home of the brave. — — Map (db m163574) WM
This tablet
is erected in memory
of these Sons of America
who gave their lives
in the Vietnam Conflict
David L. Cleveland
G. Eugene Smith
May they rest in peace. — — Map (db m163550) WM
This Tablet
Is erected in memory
of these sons of America
who gave their lives
in World War II
Willis Audinwood
Clifford Cole
Thomas Graves
Clyde Harrower
Morris Heck
Vernon Hughes
Donald Swain
William Whitney
May they rest . . . — — Map (db m163576) WM
From 1840-90, "Bloss" coal from the mines of the nearby region was widely known and used as smithing and steam coal. Tioga in those years was a leading county in bituminous coal production in the U.S. — — Map (db m43215) HM
This testimonial is dedicated by the North American survivors, colleagues of E.A. VanValkenburg during the quarter-century in which he directed the publication of the Philadelphia North American. As its editor he inspired and directed public opinion . . . — — Map (db m88334) HM
Founder of the Fall Brook Coal Company.
[bas relief]
Projector of the
Corning, Cowanesque & Antrim Railway.
[bas relief]
The story of a useful and honored life
may be told in these words.
His energy and diligence compelled . . . — — Map (db m222867) HM
Presented by
Leonard and Mary Green Harrison
for free use of the public,
under control of
the Wellsboro Cemetery Company,
erected A.D. 1917. — — Map (db m223232) HM
Nessmuk was the pen name of pioneer conservationist and woodsman George Washington Sears (1821-1890), a resident of Wellsboro. Noted chiefly as the author of first book on woodcraft, Sears was also a poet, adventurer, canoeist and outdoor writer. — — Map (db m43180) HM
Before time had a name, these forests were here. Pine, hemlock and chestnut grew to enormous sizes. The forest ecosystem naturally found the proper balance of life. But in time, this serene landscape was changed.
The first European settlers . . . — — Map (db m146494) HM
A Seneca trail from the Genesee to the Susquehanna at Jersey Shore, forked one mile south of here. One branch ran through the gorge of Pine Creek; the other crossed the hills, following Darling Run and Babb Creek back to Pine Creek at Blackwell. — — Map (db m43211) HM
If these stones could talk,
what tales they would tell,
of things in heaven,
and things in hell.
Listen my people
and please draw near,
we will say things
that you need to hear.
We speak for many
who are not here,
they took . . . — — Map (db m222822) WM
Replica erected by the
Tioga County Historical Society
1985
Wellsboro, Pennsylvania
Benefactors
Citizens and Northern Bank
The Packer Foundation
John Nicoll Estate
Trustees
Charles Balleine - Lowell Coolidge
James Dunham - . . . — — Map (db m88335) HM
Formed March 26, 1804 from Lycoming County. The name, derived from an Indian word meaning "the forks of a stream," honors the Tioga River. Wellsboro, the county seat, was laid out in 1806; incorporated 1830. On Pine Creek is Pennsylvania's Grand . . . — — Map (db m43212) HM
Governor of Pennsylvania 1899-1903, Congressman in 1891-1899; was born two and a half miles SW of here April 18, 1846. Graduate of Mansfield Normal. Began Law practice in Wellsboro, 1870. Moved to Pittsburgh, 1877. Died March 1, 1920. — — Map (db m43149) HM
Governor of Pennsylvania 1899-1903, Congressman in 1891-1899; was born two and a half miles SE of here April 18, 1846. Graduate of Mansfield Normal. Began Law practice in Wellsboro, 1870. Moved to Pittsburgh, 1877. Died March 1, 1920. — — Map (db m43152) HM
To Honor Veterans of the Armed Forces
from Wellsboro and Area who served their country
in
World War II
from 1939 to war's end 1945
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
We must always remember for it is by their . . . — — Map (db m222719) WM
Since the 1990s, the members of the Tioga County Bass Anglers (TCBA) have completed several habitat projects at Hammond Lake and Cowanesque Lake. When TCBA entered into the Cooperative
Habitat Improvement Program at Lake Nessmuk, a fish habitat . . . — — Map (db m223242) HM
Lake Nessmuk, Tioga County, is one of the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission (PFBC)-owned reservoirs which were required to be drawn down due to aging dams. PFBC used the opportunity of repairing the dam to improve the lake's habitat for fish. . . . — — Map (db m223238) HM
Exploding black powder charges boomed down this now peaceful canyon in the summer of 1891, as 90 Italian laborers shoveled, picked and blasted the new Fahnestock (say "funnystock") and Tiadaghton railroad into the steep canyon wall just across Pine . . . — — Map (db m146493) HM
