Archive for June, 2015

Reflection 65

Monday, June 29th, 2015

 

Age is a curse that falls on us unawares.  It’s true!   It feels like twenty minutes ago that I was eighteen years old and playing baseball with my friends in Beaver Co.  Now I am an old man with white hair and a Medicare card.  My knees hurt.  How did this happen?

 

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Map: Beaver Co in 1817

Sunday, June 14th, 2015

While researching steamboat history within the PA Archives, I found a map of Beaver Co dated July 25, 1817 titled A Correct Map of Beaver County by Hugh McCollough, DS

 

To me the interesting finds on the map are the labels attached to road and trails.  There are two lines identified as “to George Town” and two eminating lines from Georgetown  “to Pittsburgh” (Pittsburgh Grade Road) and “to Washington” (Catfish Camp Trail).  

 

There is no Midland nor Aliquippa on the map. Beaver is on the map. But no roads are labeled “to Beaver”.  The map maker evidently viewed George Town as  an important cross roads or cross trails and entry into the Northwest Territory.  Before 1785, the Ohio River had been the recognized boundary between the United States and Indian territory. 

 

Check it out.  Beaver Co Map 1817.

The link to the original Melish-Whiteside County Map at the PA Archives.

 

Hugh McCollough, a vet of the War of 1812, died in 1841 and was buried in the Georgetown Cemetery. 

 

 

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