Born a slave in Maryland in 1801, he escaped as a boy and about 1824 came to Meadville. A barber, he was long active in the Underground Railroad. His Arch Street house, since torn down, is estimated to have harbored some 500 runaway slaves prior to . . . — — Map (db m41030) HM
Major George Washington was 21 years old and a loyal British subject when he was sent by the governor of Virginia, Robert Dinwiddie, on a dangerous diplomatic mission into western Pennsylvania. Governor Dinwiddie had heard reports that the French . . . — — Map (db m175235) HM
Dr. Charles H. Strong was a native of Girard, Pennsylvania.
Dr. Strong's dream came true when he decided to go deer hunting and possibly locate the geographical center of Crawford County, which had just been established in Southeast Kansas . . . — — Map (db m36928) HM
Ada grew alongside the tracks of the Ohio & Indiana Railroad, completed in 1854 between Crestline, Crawford County, and Fort Wayne, Indiana. This line became part of the Southwest Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1869. Ada's rapid growth as . . . — — Map (db m29014) HM
In September, 1875, members of the Masonic fraternity proposed the establishment of a lodge in Lake City. Twenty Masons, who felt themselves to be sufficiently permanent residents to affiliate with a local lodge, met on December 4, 1875. To provide . . . — — Map (db m292097) HM
Canadian born Thomas Roddy was admitted to the Crawford County Bar in 1870. He served on City Council, library boards and Market House oversight committee. In 1881 he won Elias Allen's suit which desegregated Pennsylvania schools-all despite being . . . — — Map (db m55069) HM
General Geography/Economy
The topography, climate, and soil makes western Pennsylvania well-suited for the dairy and agricultural industry, and on well-drained soils, crops produced here include oats, wheat, potatoes, and corn. Poorly-drained . . . — — Map (db m203051)
John Wesley Nichols was born January 28, 1839, in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, to Samuel and Katharine Maxwell Nichols. Little is known of his early years. In 1860 he married Sarah Elizabeth Dearborn, also born in Crawford County.
Nichols . . . — — Map (db m58277) HM
David Mead was born in Hudson, NY on January 17, 1752, the eldest son of Darius and Ruth Curtis Mead of Connecticut. In 1774, he married Agnes Wilson of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, and the couple had nine children, of whom five lived to . . . — — Map (db m175200) HM
The Native American most closely identified with our region is Guyasuta of the Seneca Nation. His name has many different spellings and it is said to mean, (Gayahsö:dö')“Standing Paddle.”
Guyasuta was a Seneca Wolf Clan chief before his nephew . . . — — Map (db m248506) HM
From the 1850s through the 1960s Meadville's 4th Ward was a neighborhood of frame houses and small industries, home to railroad workers and tradesmen. It extended from French Creek to Park Avenue and was bisected by Dock Street (now Mead Avenue), . . . — — Map (db m175201) HM
This tablet is erected
in memory of the men who composed
Company "A" 211th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers,
who enlisted in Crawford County
and went forth in defense of their country
in the Civil War of 1861-1865.
Elias . . . — — Map (db m314450) WM
Thin black lines indicate changes in relevance. Between each pair of lines entries are ordered geographically but all have the same relevance.
* Inflectional forms of words are their plurals, singulars, and possessives as well as gramatical tenses and similar variations.
