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Year

Event

1804 - March 26

Lycoming, Potter & McKean counties defined but Potter & McKean are attached to Centre county for  judicial purposes.

1806

The Ellicottville Road, constructed by Joseph Ellicott, was opened. This road started at Dunnstown, opposite Lock Haven on the Susquehanna, up that river to the Sinnemahoning branch, and then to Emporium, the Big Elk Lick (Gardeau, 3 miles north of Sizerville) and then over the highlands crossing Marvin Creek about seven miles from Smethport, and again over highlands and down the Tuna Valley and on to Ellicottville, New York.

1810 - December 5

Eulalia Township created in Potter County. Eulalia was named for Eulalia Deschapelles, wife of John Keating.  (ref: Dan Hyde’s Potter County History)

1812 Summer

According to the tale of "Lost Silver Treasure" Captain Blackbeard traveled through this area on his way to Gardeau (3 miles to the north) with the treasure from a Spanish Galleon that had gone down off the Bahamas during a heavy tropical hurricane in 1680. He is supposed to have deposited the silver in an old salt lick near Gardeau and Keating Summit.

1816

Potter & McKean counties are attached to Lycoming county for  judicial purposes.

1819 - 1820

L. Lucore settles near Emporium

Hiram Sizer settles in Portage Township. (J.H.Beers pg. 828)

1823

James B. Roach, of the Tennessee Methodist Conference, was sent to Coudersport. His circuit extended from there to Canoe Place (Port Allegany) and the Portage Settlement (Emporium). It included “an unbroken wilderness of 24 miles, if we except the primitive houses of Hiram Sizer and Brewster Freeman”.  (J.H.Beers)  The Brewster Freeman property was in or near Prestonville (Sizerville). The Sizer homestead was a bit to the south.