Formed March 26, 1804 from Lycoming County, and fully organized in 1835. Named for Revolutionary hero General James Potter. An early center of the lumbering and tanning industries. Coudersport, the county seat, was laid out in 1807; incorporated . . . — — Map (db m39966) HM
The Allegheny River rises from a spring in Potter County in north central Pennsylvania, 130 miles upstream of the Kinzua Dam, flowing northwest into New York then southwest into Pennsylvania again. The Iroquois and Shawnee Indians who lived along . . . — — Map (db m77842) HM
Between 1800 and 1850, much of the region's massive old-growth white pine was harvested, muscled to the rivers, lashed into rafts, and floated to far away shipyards and other industries. By 1850, the Industrial Revolution brought hopeful and . . . — — Map (db m304445) HM
In 1807, the Pennsylvania legislature commissioned a road across the wilderness of northern Pennsylvania to open up east-west travel. Nine years later, laborers completed the "road," though sections remained rough packhorse trail — like here . . . — — Map (db m142687) HM
High on the Allegheny Plateau, Potter County gives birth to three mighty rivers. Eleven miles northeast of Coudersport, on a hilltop near Raymond, their watersheds converge. Waters trickle from the hill's north side to form the Genesee River that . . . — — Map (db m142688) HM
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Soils and sands get washed from mountainsides and settle into lakes and oceans where they are naturally compressed into layers of sedimentary rocks. The layers of rock are like pages of a book and tell the . . . — — Map (db m64530) HM
This statue of a Civil War veteran was erected to pay tribute to those veterans who settled Potter County. Potter County was initially named Ashmore, but later named Potter by the 1877 Dakota Territory Legislature. Gettysburg was first named . . . — — Map (db m125778) HM WM
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