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12 THE JOURNAL Whenever I see an old gray and blue This was one of the comillon practices crock marked with trade-mark "Colder and in the Blooming Grove settlement, not Wilcox" or "Sipe & Son", it suggests apple butter to lne. Thesecrocks. too. find their a family but what boiled their apple butccr place in the museum. in the fall. A few detailsmight differ in Next day when they were cool enouhoh, the variousfamilies, bur in general this they were covered with white paper and would fit any of the Helms, Ulmers, and stored away. It was colninon to snake 20 Shakersor any of the other families then to 30 gallonsin a seasonif apples were Gone are those days, gone the methods plentiful. One boiling, such as I have des- and gone many of those who were with us cribed, would make from twelve to f ourteen then--we linger on, and memory weaves gallons.Some was sold to customers in many happy recollections for us which we WiIJiamsport, for as mucla as fif ty cents a want to have and pass on to those coming gallon. after us ACCESSIONSTO THE MUSEUM Plaqueof Incorporationof City of Montoursville.R. D. 2. Pa. Williamsport, January 15, 1886; Gift of Civil War Gun; Gift of LesterH.ill. Janaes E. Gibbons, South Williamsporr, Williainsport, Pa Pa Shutter fasteners ( or contraptions to hold U. S. Armor-Sword and Belt, property shurcers open) ; Gift of Mrs. Myles Slntschi of H. L. Beak, N. G. P. Sword of Capt of Salladasburg,R. D., Pa John Beck; Gifts of Mf.l-JesseBell, Wil- Book on Nippenose Park; Loaned by .Mrs. liamsport, Pa. Myles Santschiof Salladasburg,R. D., Pa Ladies Black Velvet Shoulder Cape, Red Scrap books and case, books compiled and Green Paisley Shawl, 'Red Weather Fan; Gifts of Mrs. Carl Hall, .IWilliamsporr,Pa by Miss Lucy Scott; Gift of Great-nephew, Mr. James Scott Clancy, Jersey Shore. Sampler of Margaret ''Clark, daughter of Col. Robert Clark of Rev. Fame; Gift of Set of Music Books which belonged to Mrs. Laura Litchard, Williamsport, Pa. Mrs. Paul Brook's father, who.played in Ladies Writing Pens, Mother of Pearl different bands in State of Pennsylvania Handlesand gold pen points; Gifts of Mrs Gift of Mrs. Paul Brooks, Williamsporr, Pa. THE Ann Roberts Davis, Williamsport, Pa Collectionof Postcardsof City of Wil- White Feathered Hand Painted Fan; Gift liamsport and surmunding country of City of Miss Mai:y Roberts, Williamsport, Pa. of Williamsport;Gift of Mrs.Laura G. Fairy Basket; Gift of Mrs. J. Robbins, Janney, Williamsport, Pa. JOURNAL 19 INDIVIDUAL MEMBERSHIPS Annual $ 2.00 yearly Contributing $ 5.00 yearly OFTHE Sustaining $ 1G.00yearly Life $100.00yearly To the Officers of The Lycoming County Historical Society LYCOMING HISTORICALSOCIETY I herewith accept your invitation to become a Member of the Lycoming County Historical Society Full Name Address Please mail to HOWARD J. LAMADE, JR., Treasurer 254 Lincoln Avenue, William)sport, Pennsylvania the J O U R N A L of the Vol.I No.5 T H E JOURNAL April, 1957 LYCOMING HISTORICAL SOCI ETY firmed a report of the laying out of a road a small plot. Soon after, a man named PUBLISHED BIANNUALLY IN WILLIAMSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA from the mouth of Larry's Creek [o the Carter made some improvements nearby Nli\. (I;113SON G. AN'TES. P13ESIDEN'T N'IR. (,F[AI{LES S. STOEVER, 3RD. V. ])]{ES]])ENT State Road. It extended through the town- The lonesomenessof the dark forests.the Ml{ [A)rXS P. BRusstEn, ]sT. Vice PitEslnxNT ]\4[n. f]OXVAi;tl) J. ]aAX;JADE, .TtliiAsui\Et\ ships of Platt, Mifflin, Anthony and into howling of the wolvesand panthers at S.\R£-UEL J. ])ORNSIFE, 2ND. V'ICE PI\ESII)ENT MISS DELLA (,. DODSON, SECRETAI\Y R'nTToRS rhe southern reaches of Cogan House. This night and lack of neighborscaused the two road followed the main branch,or the first DR. LEWIS E. TnEISS MR. NIICnAEL N'I. WARCO men to abandon their improvements branch. as it was sometimes called. MISS 'MILDRED E. KEH,Y \'lR. L. RODNIAN WUSS'rER Cogan's cabin stood near the State Road, Extra Copies of The Journal Fifty Cents Each These three roads passed through vast and hunters coming into the neighborhood areas of virgin timber. There were sections to hunt often used it for a hunting cabin. VOLUMEI APRIL 1957 NUMBER FIVE of the township covered by great, till trees Stewart, in his history of Lycoming County, of white pine intermingled with a scatter- printed in 1876, gives this account of the ing of hemlock and a variety of hardwood first permanent settlers: ''No effort was PRESIDENT''S MESSAGE frees. In other places there were whole madeto settlethe countryuntil 1842,when mountains and valleys covered with hem- Charles Straub, Joseph Stryker, Adam Faus lock and a scatteringof other speciesof naught, Benjamin Quimby, John Akin and Last month the Lycoming Historical Society celebrated(without celebration) its trees,and other areaswere mostly of hard John WZeigel located in the western part fiftieth birthday. woods with a scattering of pine and hem- of what is now Cogan House Township, The scheduled meetings, to be held Thursday, April 4th, u-ill end the activities lock. and made quite extensive improvements. of the Society for the present season. The first lumbering operation in Cogan I petition to set up a township organization June 19ch is the tentative date for this yeah:'sSummer outing, plans for which i-louse Township appears to have originated was granted and confirmed Dec. 6, 1843 are in che making; Mr. Morris H. Housed i; in charge along the Larry's Creek Road. In the The first written record of lumbermen, As we. Membersand Friendsof the Societygo into our beautiful Museum,may Historyof Platt Township,it is statedthat their names and an account of their oper we pledge to each other, and to our Patriotic Ancestors our best efforts [o build bigger vast amountsof logs, lumber, and bark ltions begins with the year 1844. In 1844, tnd better in the years to come caineover this road to the village at the Mr. James Wood and his son, Robert, be- When chasSociety celebrates the end of the next fifty years,may our Posterity mouth of Larry's Creek, where, until 1834, gan to manufacture lumber in a crude saw- look backwith pride on the work we havedone it was ranted down the river to the markets pit. The powerto drive the pit-sawin this As your Pi:evident,I pledgeto you my very best efforts in the days ahead.Will on the lower reaches of the Susquehanna primitive arrangement was furnished by you, as i'len)belts and Friends, give of your best to make our dreams come true? River. The names of the first lumbermen Mr..Wood at one end of the saw, and Robert at the other end. Sometimeafter Sincerely, were not preservedin the early records. In GibsonG. Antes, L834, the West Branch Canal was completed 1850, he purchaseda steam saw-mill from President as far as Lock Haven, and from that date Peter Herdic up on Buckhorn Mountain, rhe lumber was loaded on canal boats at ind still later he movedthe samemill rhe mouth of Larry's Creek and shipped to doran on a four hundred acre tract near the southern markets. In 1899, the June rhe Summit Church. where he cleared con flood destroyedthe canal,but by this time siderable land and spent his remaining days. rhe Fall Brook Railroad had been built--it PeterHerdic cailaefrom New York State EARLY LUMBERING IN COGAN HOUSE was completed on June 4, 1883--and the to Cogan House with William Andress in products of the f orest were then shipped 1846. Here. near the Beech Grove School. TOWNSHIP out on the railroad. No recordwas kept of they purchased a "shingle interest" from rhe logs, lumber and bark that came out Hubbard 'Webster and started in to manu- by Mlilton Landis, Local Historian of the Larry'sCreek region, but the old facture shingles. It is supposed that they timers said it was millions upon millions made the shingles BY HAND. They worked Many years before the first pioneer made is composed of rLLggcd mountains with deep of board feet. As a goodly share of that here three years,and at the end of that a settlementwithin the presentborders of valleys, it presented such a formidable ap- lumber camc out of the southern part of lime, each had earned $2,500. In 1850 Cogan House Township, three important pearanceto the traveler that not one cared CoganHouse Township, we can only won- Mr. Herdic arid Henry Hughesbought a roads had been constructed through the [o settle on its steep llill-sides. der as to lust how many millions of feet tract of pine climber from Mr. Hayes and wildernessof the townshipand two of The second road was built across the of lumber our whole township did produce. erected therein a steam saw-mill. We are Chemwere to play an important part in center of the tou'nship and became the The rugged terrain of Cogan House quite sure this tract was on Buckhorn che settlement of Cogan House Township great highway of its dime. It was called offeredlittle inducement,at first. to the Mountain . Hughes sold his share to and also of other townships to the West the StateRoad. The StateRoad was built early pioneers as a favorable region in which Herdic. From this tr act. Mr. Herdic realized and North of it. in 1799 from the Lycoming Creek at New- to carveout a farm and a permanenthome.

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