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Donehoo</span><br> + <br> + <span class="fs80">Secretary of the Pennsylvania Historical<br> + Commission and President of the<br> + Potter County Historical Society</span></p> + <br> + + <figure class="figcenter illowp75" id="titlepage" style="max-width: 76.625em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/titlepage.jpg" alt="River in the woods"> + </figure> + <br><br> + +<p class="center no-indent"> + <span class="fs120 lh">With an Introduction and Glossary of Some Historic<br> + Names Changed or Misspelled In Pennsylvania</span> + <br> + <em>By</em> Henry W. Shoemaker<br> + <br> + <span class="fs80">Member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania<br> + and Chairman of the Committee on Historical<br> + Activity, Pennsylvania Federation of<br> + Historical Societies</span><br> + <br> + <span class="fs120">Published under the Auspices of the Pennsylvania Alpine Club,<br> + J. Herbert Walker, Secretary and Historian</span><br> + <br> + <span class="fs70">Altoona, Pennsylvania</span></p> + + <figure class="figcenter illowp10" id="titlepage2" style="max-width: 8.625em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/titlepage2.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> + </figure> + + <p class="center no-indent"><span class="fs70">Tribune Press, 1921</span> +</p> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> + +<div class="chapter"> +<h2 class="nobreak" id="CONTENTS">CONTENTS</h2> +</div> + +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Prefatory Note +</td> +<td class="tdr"> +<a href="#Prefatory_Note">2</a> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Introduction +</td> +<td class="tdr"> +<a href="#Introduction">2</a> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Changing Historic Place Names +</td> +<td class="tdr"> +<a href="#Changing_Historic_Place_Names">3</a> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +A Partial List of Historic Place Names Changed or Misspelled in Pennsylvania +</td> +<td class="tdr"> +<a href="#A_Partial_List_of_Historic_Place_Names">8</a> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +The Spirit of the Name-Vandal! Exit Muckelrat and Enter Woodland Hills +</td> +<td class="tdr"> +<a href="#The_Spirit_of_the_Name-Vandal">13</a> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Changing the Face of History +</td> +<td class="tdr"> +<a href="#Changing_the_Face_of_History">13</a> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Pennsylvania Alpine Club +</td> +<td class="tdr"> +<a href="#Pennsylvania_Alpine_Club">14</a> +</td> +</tr> +</table> + + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + <p class="center no-indent fs80"> + “There are vicissitudes in all things.”—Terence. + </p> +</div> + + +<div class="chapter"> + <h2 class="nobreak" id="Prefatory_Note"> + Prefatory Note + </h2> +</div> + +<div> + <img class="drop-cap" src="images/image002a.jpg" width="25" height="38" alt="drop-cap"> +</div> + +<p class="drop-cap"><span class="upper-case"> +The</span> author wishes to state that this brief monograph is +written at the suggestion of Col. Henry W. Shoemaker, +who has not only assisted in the writing, but who also +has kindly paid the expense of publication. The article +could be extended very greatly. The author thinks, however, +that enough is written to call attention to the evil of changing +place names.</p> + +<p class="right"> + G. P. D. +</p> + + +<div class="chapter"> + <h2 class="nobreak" id="Introduction"> + Introduction + </h2> +</div> + +<div> + <img class="drop-cap" src="images/image002b.jpg" width="25" height="36" alt="drop-cap"> +</div> + +<p class="drop-cap"><span class="upper-case">It</span> +is indeed a privilege, through the agency of the Pennsylvania +Alpine Club, to assist in the publication of so +timely a monograph as that of Dr. Donehoo’s, on the +subject of changing historic place names. Every month +the senseless shifting is going on, newcomers wresting from the +historic past the heritage of honored names. It will be difficult a +century hence to follow the course of history in Pennsylvania; +even now it is hard to identify the places visited by early travelers +like Spangenberg, Ettwein and Col. Weiser, as innovators have +changed and re-changed even the names of the streams and +mountains that they crossed. It will be hard to trace the racial +and philological development of the State, as the haphazard system +of renaming places destroys all historic sequence of nationality +and individual tendencies. One bright spot remains. +Pennsylvania has discarded fewer of her Indian names than most +other States; personal vanity or prejudice was hardly strong +enough to obliterate these—for even more than “their names are +on the waters and you cannot blot them out,” the Indian-named +mountains, valleys, lakes, rivers and streams persist and bid +fair to defy the ruthlessness of the ages. Let the constant +watchfulness of every public-spirited Pennsylvanian be directed +to “save the ancient landmarks” and keep inviolate the sturdy, +distinctive nomenclature and spelling handed down by our fore-fathers.</p> + +<p class="right"> + <span class="smcap">Henry W. Shoemaker.</span></p> + +<p class="no-indent"><span class="smcap">“Restless Oaks,” McElhattan, Pa., April 30, 1921.</span> +</p> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</span></p> + + +<figure class="figcenter illowp35" id="image003a" style="max-width: 33.6875em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/image003a.jpg" alt="United States Flag"> +</figure> + + + <h2 class="nobreak" id="Changing_Historic_Place_Names"> + Changing Historic Place Names + </h2> +</div> + +<div> + <img class="drop-cap" src="images/image002a.jpg" width="25" height="38" alt="drop-cap"> +</div> + +<p class="drop-cap"><span class="upper-case"> +The</span> Mosaic Law contained the following: “Cursed be he +that removeth his neighbor’s landmark: and all the people +shall say, Amen.”</p> + +<p>They did not have a Historical Society during the early +development of the Jewish Commonwealth, or Moses might have +added to these wise regulations, “Cursed be he that changeth one +of the historic names of towns and villages, and all the people +shall say, Amen.”</p> + +<p>A place name is not only a landmark, but it is a historic landmark, +often of more real value than the landmark of an individual +occupant of the soil. Sometimes the whole history of a region +can be dug up by the careful student of the names which are +given to the towns, villages, streams and mountains in that region. +Very few of the earlier place names in Pennsylvania were given +in a haphazard way. They all meant something, and in most +cases something of real historic value.</p> + +<p>Some of these early names are most beautiful to hear, and +some are not. But they are all of interest and historic value. +Many of the most beautiful sounding names, and names of historic +value, have disappeared entirely from the map of the state. +Wyoming is an illustration of the disappearance of an old, beautiful +and historic name. Many people think that the name +“Wyoming” belongs to the state to which it migrated from the +beautiful vale of Pennsylvania, where it was made historic for +all time.</p> + +<p>Some of the earliest place names now are applied to towns +and topographical features far removed from the place which +gave them birth. Shamokin is an illustration of this change. +This name is one of the very oldest on the Susquehanna River, +and it was used during the entire period of settlement, as well as +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</span>during the period of Indian occupancy, when the Vice-Gerent +of the Iroquois Confederacy made it the Indian capitol of Pennsylvania. +All of the early travelers and all of the official documents +relating to Indian affairs use this name for the present +Sunbury. The name Shamokin has been given to a town which +is in no way connected with the historic town from which this +name was taken. In order to avoid confusion, a historical writer +now has to always refer to the old, historic place in this manner: +“Shamokin (now Sunbury).” The same rule has to apply to the +other historic village of Wyoming. When this place is mentioned, +the statement must be made as “Wyoming (now Wilkes-Barre).” +Probably the greatest crime of all is that which was +committed by some classical school teacher in the change which +was made from Tioga to Athens. The author in other publications +has referred to the trail of the massacre of Indian place +names by these classic school teachers from New England. It +was one of the sad results of the Connecticut Settlement of +Pennsylvania and Western New York. The Indian names were +slaughtered without pity. The Scotch-Irish in Pennsylvania +killed the Indians, but spared the names which the Indians had +given to the rivers and mountains in the region in which they +had lived. The New England school teacher slaughtered the +names. Follow the trail of these classical scholars from Athens +up into New York and you find a veritable trail of blood of +historic and beautiful Indian names.</p> + +<p>Imagine, if you please, the following names within the historic +habitat of the mighty Iroquois: Cato, Ovid, Camillus, Rome, +Utica, Troy, Syracuse, Marathon, Ithaca, Geneva, Sempronius, +Aurelius, Marcellus, Scipioville, Aurora, Romulus, Junius—and +so on <em>ad nauseam</em>, there is hardly any limit to the list. The beautiful +lake region of New York seems to have been the “Gettysburg” +of the New England teacher, where the “high tide” of +classical slaughter was done. By direct trail he reached the +headwaters of the Susquehanna, where he killed Tioga in cold +blood, and then erected “Athens.” About this time the tide of +Scotch-Irish and German “Pennamites” swept up the Susquehanna +River and ended the advance of the classical scholar and +prevented the continuation of the slaughter along the Susquehanna +River.</p> + +<p>I have always been thankful that this classic invasion of +Pennsylvania soil did not come into the State by the way of the +Allegheny River. Had it done so, the Ohio, or La Belle Riviere, +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</span>might probably have been re-baptized the “Styx,” and the old +twin towns at the headwaters of this stream called Romulus and +Remus.</p> + +<p>A “name” means something. It stands for the person or +place. To the Israelite the name of the Deity was so sacred and +awful that it was not pronounced at all. One of the Commandments +relates to the taking of “the name in vain.” We Americans +are losing our spirit of reverence for almost everything. +Names of places are changed without a feeling of loss. Sometimes +these changes are due to the errors of clerks or map +makers. There are so many illustrations of this method of +change that only a few can be mentioned. Carter Camp, in +Potter County, has been substituted for Cartee Camp—the name +of a historic family, of which General Cartee was a member. +One can easily see how this change was made by a copyist +glancing at the name Cartee and then writing the more familiar +“Carter.” Another illustration of the same sort of error is +found in the name “Queen’s Run,” which should be Quinn’s Run—named +for a famous early settler and Indian lighter who settled +above Lock Haven, on the West Branch.</p> + +<p>Col. Henry W. Shoemaker calls my attention to a few other +changes of this sort. The Cattleman River should be “Casselman,” +being named for a famous family of pioneers which settled +in Western Pennsylvania. One of the townships in Clinton +County is now named “Gallagher” instead of “Gallauher,” in +honor of Judge Abraham Gallauher. The recent maps of Pennsylvania +are literally filled with such clerical errors, which finally +have the authority of the United States Government to back them +up, in the Geological Survey Maps and naming of Post Offices. +These errors could all be avoided by having the proofs of maps +and other official documents submitted to the County Historical +Societies before final publication.</p> + +<p>Other changes of names are intentional, as in the case of the +many names, such as Athens, for Tioga Point; Sunbury, for +Shamokin; Wilkes-Barre, for Wyoming. These changes were +made so long ago that the more recent name has become historic. +But changes are being made which have no historic significance +whatever. One of the worst, which the author often thinks +about because he remembers the place by its old name, is that of +the large and growing town of Coraopolis, below Pittsburg, +which formerly had the historic name of Vance Fort—which +means something of the romantic period when the early settlers +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</span>on the Ohio had to fly to Vance’s Fort for protection from the +Indians. “Coraopolis” means nothing whatever. There are +“opolis” without number in the United States. There was only +one Vance Fort. The change of Venango to Franklin is another +illustration of giving up an early and historic name.</p> + +<p>Another change which Col. Shoemaker tells me of is the suggested +change of Shousetown to Glenwillard. The Shouse family +was one of the early pioneer families on the upper Ohio in the +days when the male members of the family defended the frontiers +of civilization. There are “glens” of every possible style and +degree of fashion in the State, but there is only one Shousetown, +or Shouse Ferry. Somehow, whenever a certain type of people +move into a locality, it seems to be about the first thing which +these modern pioneers think of, is that of changing a name, which +does not have an up-to-date sound, to “glen”-something-or-other. +Instead of cutting down trees, they cut down names. My very +good friend Gifford Pinchot is a perfect friend of “forestry conservation,” +so is my other friend, Col. Henry W. Shoemaker—more +power to both of them in their good work! Let us all +start a movement for the “preservation and conservation of the +historic place names of Pennsylvania.” Some of these names are +not as “pretty” as they might be, but they mean something, and +they are historic. I know that Mary is a rather old-fashioned +name for a girl, when compared with Gladys or Ethyl—but +somehow the name means more. It has the historic light of ages +playing about it. One thinks of deep-blue Syrian skies and the +lakes of Killarney, and a lot of other things, when it is mentioned. +So, Shousetown has a sort of crude sound when compared with +“Glenwillard.” But if you think of the sturdy frontiersman who +ferried across the Ohio in the early days, the name becomes +romantic. So also with the other names. If you know why they +were given, you will realize why they should stay.</p> + +<p>Another matter which calls for the attention of Historical +Societies is that of giving names to places which never had a +name. These names should have some meaning, either in local +or state history. Oftentimes new towns are given names which +bear no relation to anything in local or State history. Such names +as “Mexico,” “Arroyo,” “Vera Cruz,” etc., have no relation +whatever to anything local or State. Many of these names are +intrusive. They have historical significance elsewhere, but not +here.</p> + +<p>In view of these very brief remarks about Pennsylvania place +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</span>names, the author would suggest to the various Historical Societies +in the State the passage of an Act of Assembly forbidding +the giving of names to any place, or the changing of any place +name, without the authority of either the Historical Commission +or of some other historical body, such as the Historical Society +of Pennsylvania. The author understands that many European +countries and some of our own States already have such laws. A +person has the right to call his own country place or farm by +whatever name he wishes. But State names of places become the +property of the State, and become a part of the State’s archives. +Such a law would prevent the ignorant vandalism which has been +so much in evidence in the past, in blotting out historic names, +and it would also prevent the thoughtless and, oftentimes, utterly +ridiculous bestowal of names.</p> + +<p>There are hundreds of appropriate and beautiful historic +names in early Pennsylvania history, among which are many +really significant Indian names, which have never been given to +any places or topographical features. These names, rather than +meaningless ones, could be given to new towns and villages, and +even to country places. Now is the fitting time for the Historical +Societies of the State to commence a movement having in view the +results mentioned in this article. Nearly every county in the +State now has a Historical Society, or has such a society under +way. This work can be made a most valuable part of the activity +of such societies. The change of historic place names may seem +a small matter, but it is not. Equally offensive is the mis-spelling +of historic names, for it adds a studied indifference to the illustrious +names or events in history, which no patriotic American +should pass over lightly. We must hold to our historic place +names as the tangible links in the chain of our historical development.</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp10" id="image007" style="max-width: 16.0em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/image007.jpg" alt="Female American Indian"> +</figure> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</span></p> + + + <h2 class="nobreak" id="A_Partial_List_of_Historic_Place_Names"> + A Partial List of Historic Place Names<br> + Changed or Misspelled in Pennsylvania + </h2> +</div> +<p class="center no-indent bold fs120">(Compiled by Henry W. Shoemaker)</p> + + +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdl bold" style="width:28%"> +Old Name +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="width:44%"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl bold" style="width:28%"> +New Name or Spelling +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Louisbourg +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +Even the State Capitol was not spared! +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Harris’ Ferry, Harrisburg +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Wyoming +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Wilkes-Barre +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Shamokin +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +“The Place of the Horns,” where the deer performed their mewing. +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Sunbury +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Ohe-yu +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +“The Beautiful River—La Belle Riviere” +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Allegheny River +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Cartee Camp +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +New Bergen, “Carter” Camp +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Shousetown +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +Sturdy Indian fighters, ancestors of Hon. Jouett Shouse, lived here. +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Glenwillard +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Muckelrat +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +How perfectly flat and innocuous the new name! +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Woodland Hills +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +White’s Eddy +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Ritchie +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Young Woman’s Town +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +Here Mary Wolford, beautiful pioneer girl, was drowned escaping from Indians. +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +North Bend +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Eyersburg +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Bloomsburg +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Longstown +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +New Berlin +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Stroupstown +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Freeburg +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Swinefordstown +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +How inane the new name, compared to the old! Middle of what? +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Middleberg +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Christunn +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +Why this was changed is a puzzle, as new name has little special significance +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Middle Creek +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Youngmanstown +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +There are no less than thirty other places called “Mifflin” in State, and Youngmanstown had a delicious West Country, Irish flavor! +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Mifflinburg +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Muhlenberg +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Newton Hamilton +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Messimersville +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Sheridan +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Dengler’s +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Mount Penn +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Wessnersville +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +Stony Run really means nothing definite; State is full of them. +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Stony Run +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Quinn’s Run +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Queen’s Run +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Suedberg +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Suedburg +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Reidersville +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Newport<span class="pagenum" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</span> +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Peter’s Camp +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Blossburg +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Parkinson’s Ferry +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Monongahela City, Monongahela +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Casselman River +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +This atrocity is gradually getting on all maps, even some of those of State Forestry Department. +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Castleman River +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Casselman +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Castleman +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Shireman’s Creek +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Sherman’s Creek +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Zerby +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Sober +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Gallauher (Township), Clinton County +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +Another victim of “Sinn Fein” +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Gallagher +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Tioga Point +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Athens +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Vance Fort +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Coraopolis +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Venango +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Franklin +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Shoemakertown +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Ogontz +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Kreamersville +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +A quaint old town re-baptized to please a local politician. +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Smullton +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Hamburg (Clinton Co.) +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Mackeyville +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Pittsburg +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +“H,” in these days of simplified spelling, and after having been laid aside for nearly +a century, tacked on by P. R. R. in 1902 to suit a resident Vice-President born +in Edinburgh, pronounced Edinborough; which itself is philologically incorrect, the +original name of the “Athens of the North” having been Edwins-burg, an early settlement of Angles, not Celts. +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Pittsburgh +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Brunerstown +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Somerset +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Bloody Run +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +Here immortal hero blood was shed. Why change it? +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Everett +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Bismarck +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +A victim of war hysteria and over-zealous “patriotism.” +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Quentin +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Fort Hunter +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Rockville +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Siegfried +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Northampton +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Allenville +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +(Name changed twice) +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Northampton, Allentown +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Heidelberg +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +Hard to trace pioneer localities since these old names are nearly all gone. +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Schaefferstown +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Derry +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +With its old church, cruelly wiped off the map. +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Hershey +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +High Head (Mountain) +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +In Penn’s Valley, Centre County. There are no less than 100 other mountains and hills in State called “Round Top.” +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Round Top +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Old Eagle +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Strafford<span class="pagenum" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</span> +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Stucktown +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +A stalwart Indian fighter’s name obliterated to make way for a stockholder in a new railroad through the town. +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +McClure +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Dunnsburg +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Dunnstown +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Lewis’ Lake +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +Why this sentimental, slushy new name? +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +“Eaglesmere” +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Strasburg (York County) +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Shrewsbury +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Greersburg +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Darlington +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Exetertown +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +(Name changed twice) +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Exeter, Lorane +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Saltzburg +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Saltsburg +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Anderson’s Ferry +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Marietta +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Dekanoagah +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Bainbridge +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Kloster (Cloister) +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Ephrata +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Wright’s Ferry +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Wrightsville +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Tiadaghton +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Pine Creek +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Karoondinha +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +John Penn’s Creek, Penn’s Creek +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Standing Stone Town +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Huntingdon +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Reinholds +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Blainsport +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Petersburg +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +Changed, as another town of same name in State. +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Duncannon +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Stover’s +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +The name of old Reuben Stoyer, pioneer and hunter, deserved to be thus perpetuated. Why Livonia? +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Livonia +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Weirickstettle +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Penn’s Creek P.O. Centreville +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Millersburg, (Berks County) +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +Changed owing to there being another Millersburg in State, but new name of no local significance. +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Bethel +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Allemingle +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +“All Wants,” meaning “Land of Plenty.” A very distinctive cognomen. New name of no local significance whatever. +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Albany +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Riviere Le Boeuf +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +“River of Buffaloes” +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +French Creek +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Sinnemahoning +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +Changed by railroad. Indian name Sinne-Mahoning, or “Stony Lick.” +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Sinnamahoning +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Nippeno +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +Another railroad infliction. Old name “Nippeno,” from Nippe-nuse, an Indian Chief of the locality. +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Nippono +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Manayunk +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Schuylkill<span class="pagenum" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</span> +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Jaysburg +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +Changed so as to be the “soul mate” of Sunbury. +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Newberry +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Jacobsburg +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Woodward +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +The Forks +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +A sturdy pioneer sounding name. Changed by railroad land agents to please an influential citizen of county. +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Coburn +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Panther Run +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +An abbreviation which destroys most of the local significance. +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Panther +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Hightown +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +White Deer +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Littlestown +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Bradford +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Rattlesnake +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +Changed to “honor” a railroad contractor. +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Whetham +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Susquehanna +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +Changed on account of being other town of same name in State. +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Nisbet +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Riansares (Mountain) +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +On former domain of Queen Maria Christina of Spain. Named for her husband, the Duke of Riansares. +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Penny Hill +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Stavertown +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Glen +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Burgettstown +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Langeloth +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Reastown +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Raystown, Bedford +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Coryell’s Ferry +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +New Hope +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Quiggleville +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Lycoming +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Geulich, (Township) Clearfield County +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Gulick +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Benezet +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +Another railroad blunder in spelling. Named for Anthony Benezet, Quaker Abolitionist. +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Benezette +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Chatham’s Run, (Hamlet) +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Charlton +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Barclay +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Wyside +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Paddy’s Run +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +Here was a big camp of Irish railroad laborers when Sunbury and Erie Railroad was built about 1864. +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +East Renovo +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Saltzman +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +East Ferney +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Swatragh, (Stream) +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +Named by early Scotch-Irish pioneers for a brook in Derry, Ireland—Sewataro, Swetarrow. +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Swatara +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Powl’s Creek +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +Pronounced Pole’s Creek. Spelling should conform. +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Powell’s Creek +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Matawanna +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +McVeytown<span class="pagenum" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</span> +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Mingoville +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +Named for early tribe of redmen. New name given by owners of a picnic park. +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Hecla Park +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Hartley Hall +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +A regrettable abbreviation of Major-General Thomas Hartley’s name. +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Hartleton +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Oak Grove +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +Changed because other town of same name in State. +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Avis +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Derrstown +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +An unaccountable substitution of first name of Lewis Derr, pioneer, for his last name. +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Lewisburg +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Stitestown +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +Named for the first settler in locality. +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Lebanon +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Paxtang +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +An obstinate blunder creeping like a canker into history, as original name was Peshtank! +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Paxton +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Funkstown +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Altodale, Mont Alto +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Obold +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Mount Pleasant +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Rumberger +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +DuBois +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Morgan’s Gap +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Bull Run Gap +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Great Shawanese Lake +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Ganoga Lake +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Woodruffstown +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Blockhouse, Liberty +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Watsonburg +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Watsontown +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Upland +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +An early Swedish settlement +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Chester +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Boyersville +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Mazeppa +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Green Castle +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Greencastle +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Adamsburg +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Beaver Springs +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Moose’s Pond +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Mose’s Pond +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Chinkalacamoose +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +“Meeting place of the Moose” +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Clearfield +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Straus +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Schuyler +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Zermatt +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Holstein +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Germantown Junction +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +North Philadelphia +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Georgetown +</td> +<td class="tdl" style="margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1em;"> +Changed by Railroad Company, which had another station of same name. New name sounds nice, but of no local significance. +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Dalmatia +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Kishekokelas +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Kishacoquillas +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Jamesburg +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Oriole +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Swartztown +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Milton +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"> +Cameronia +</td> +<td class="tdl"> + +</td> +<td class="tdl"> +Montandon +</td> +</tr> +</table> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</span></p> + + + <h2 class="nobreak" id="The_Spirit_of_the_Name-Vandal"> + The Spirit of the Name-Vandal!</h2> + + <hr class="r5"> + + <h3>Exit Muckelrat and Enter Woodland Hills</h3> + +</div> + + +<p>Muckelrat is gone forever, the “Village of Woodland Hills” takes +its place and every citizen holds his head erect these days and smiles +a happy smile.</p> + +<p>The territory comprising the one-time Muckelrat includes that +part of Wilkins Township, hounded by Braddock road, Filmore road, +Glasgow road, Fairview avenue and Ridge avenue.</p> + +<p>The formal announcement of this change was made in a communication +to The Sun today, signed “Citizens of Woodland Hills.”—PITTSBURG +SUN, 1921.</p> + + +<hr class="r5"> +<div class="chapter"> + <h2 class="nobreak" id="Changing_the_Face_of_History"> + Changing the Face of History + </h2> +</div> + + +<p>There is another aspect of the ruthless spirit of the day which +holds nothing of the past sacred and secure. That is the modernization +of Civil War memorials. Most of these erected thirty years ago, +instead of showing the rugged, long-haired, bearded, loosely clad soldier +of Civil War times represented the “Civil War” warrior to look +like the trim National Guardsman of the Nineties, with short hair, +curled mustache, and tight-fitting uniform. Those erected recently, +take, for example, the Bucktail monument at Driftwood, and the +Union League Club Regiment monument at Philadelphia, represent +the Civil War soldier as short haired and clean shaven. The typical +Civil War soldier was neither of these, even if a few shaved their +whole faces once in six weeks. All let their hair stay long; that was +part of the tradition of the war, while most of the boys allowed their +beards to grow and have never shaved them off to this day. The +short-haired, clean-shaved Civil War soldier never existed outside of +the careless imagination of modern sculptors, and in only a single +monument at Gettysburg Battlefield is the real soldier of the period +depicted, that sole exception being in the bronze figure on the monument +of the Fifth Minnesota Regiment. Even Violet Oakley has +fallen into the popular error with her Lincoln and Meade murals in +the Senate Chamber at Harrisburg, but she goes most artists one +better by giving her clean-shaven soldier boys “Dutch cuts,” from +which their locks were as free as their cheeks were of the razor. Why +can’t real Civil War soldiers be put on these monuments, and not faces +and costumes typical of 1915-1921—a crime in the eyes of historic +exactitude. The Civil War soldier, South as well as North, was a +Poilu, and the razor applied by sculptors half a century later +has stripped him of one of his principal claims to individuality. As +the noted French author, Maurice Barres, remarked, in speaking of +the hairy French soldiers of the World War, “Their beards have been +part of the war, and of our courage.” The bearded Civil War soldier +bespoke his period, and told the story of camp and campaign, and any +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</span>attempt to change him now makes the memorials historically ineffective. +This is a phase of monument construction for our able State +Art Commission to consider in co-operation with Dr. Donehoo’s Historical +Commission. Clean-shaved Civil War soldiers are as historically +out of place as if the typical American “Doughboy” of the +World War were put on a pedestal with Lord Rocksavage side-whiskers +or Lord Fauntleroy tresses. Let us be correct and exact in every +detail, if we are to build for the ages to come!</p> + +<p class="right"> + H. W. S. +</p> + +<hr class="tb"> + + +<div class="chapter"> + <h2 class="nobreak" id="Pennsylvania_Alpine_Club"> + Pennsylvania Alpine Club</h2> +</div> +<br> + <figure class="figcenter illowp20" id="image014" style="max-width: 21.125em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/image014.jpg" alt="P.A.C."> + </figure> +<br> +<p>THE CREED: To protect, study and preserve, wherever possible, +the history, folk lore, folk songs and proverbs of our mountain people. +To preserve historic place names and their rightful spelling, Indian traditions +and Indian names. To secure the Pennsylvania Mountains a +wider popularity and appreciation. To work for pure air, pure water, +pure manhood and womanhood against the inroads of the modern +complex, urban civilization. To save the ancient landmarks, such as +old forts and other pioneer structures and memorials, and historic +and noteworthy trees and groves. To create a sentiment for the education +and moral encouragement of the Pennsylvania mountain children, +neglected in favor of the children of the Kentucky and Tennessee +mountains. To stand at all times for the American Flag and Pennsylvania +Beautiful.</p> + +<p>For the establishment of new Chapters and membership, apply to +J. Herbert Walker, Secretary and Historian, Box 328, Scranton Pa. +Program of Spring and Fall Outings on Application. +</p> +<br> + +<p class="center no-indent fs120"> + <em><b>Finis</b></em> +</p> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> + +<div class="chapter transnote"> +<h2 class="nobreak" id="Transcribers_Notes">Transcriber’s Notes</h2> + +<ul> +<li>pg 4 changed: into New York and you find a vertiable<br> +<span style="padding-left: 2em">to: into New York and you find a veritable</span></li> + +<li>pg 8 changed: How perfectly flat and inocuous<br> +<span style="padding-left: 2em">to: How perfectly flat and innocuous</span></li> + +<li>pg 12 changed: Named for early tribe of red-men.<br> +<span style="padding-left: 2em">to: Named for early tribe of redmen.</span></li> + +</ul> + +<p>New original cover art included with this eBook is granted to the public domain.</p> + +</div> + +<div style='text-align:center'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 78202 ***</div> +</body> +</html> diff --git a/78202-h/images/cover.jpg b/78202-h/images/cover.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..319888d --- /dev/null +++ b/78202-h/images/cover.jpg diff --git a/78202-h/images/image002a.jpg b/78202-h/images/image002a.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..61290d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/78202-h/images/image002a.jpg diff --git a/78202-h/images/image002b.jpg b/78202-h/images/image002b.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..9d04600 --- /dev/null +++ b/78202-h/images/image002b.jpg diff --git a/78202-h/images/image003a.jpg b/78202-h/images/image003a.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..c352e4f --- /dev/null +++ b/78202-h/images/image003a.jpg diff --git a/78202-h/images/image007.jpg b/78202-h/images/image007.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..0dd2f1a --- /dev/null +++ b/78202-h/images/image007.jpg diff --git a/78202-h/images/image014.jpg b/78202-h/images/image014.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..4307dc4 --- /dev/null +++ b/78202-h/images/image014.jpg diff --git a/78202-h/images/titlepage.jpg b/78202-h/images/titlepage.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..8a6af02 --- /dev/null +++ b/78202-h/images/titlepage.jpg diff --git a/78202-h/images/titlepage2.jpg b/78202-h/images/titlepage2.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..9df3512 --- /dev/null +++ b/78202-h/images/titlepage2.jpg |
