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Lock Haven more than 150 years ago

Historian Lou Bernard gave us additional information about this map of Lock Haven which we printed recently. The map appears in the bottom left corner of a larger map of Clinton County published in 1862 by Way, Palmer & Co. of New York. Bernard, who works at Ross Library, tells us that the full map may be seen at the library and reprints are available from the Clinton County Genealogical Society in book form. We noted that Lusk Run is named “Luck Run” by mistake, and Bernard notes that Vesper Street appears here as “Western Street.” He also said that Bellefonte Avenue did not run through the Express block, although the map appears to show it doing so. “Looking very closely, you can see that the line over that block actually is not Bellefonte Avenue, but the border of an addition to the city,” he said. This map indicates who created or donated what sections of town, and this particular line depicts the eastern edge of Quiggle’s Addition, he said. The log booms in the river are only on the south side, Bernard noted, because when logging first became big in this area, Williamsport’s governmental leaders took steps to keep Lock Haven from choking off their business. They went to court and got an injunction that allowed our city to use only the south side of the Susquehanna for log booms. Attorneys Samuel R. Peale and Seymour Durell Ball fought that in court for years and finally got it overturned, but by then the local economy had been firmly established, Bernard said. We thank him for sending a wealth of information, and Jack Doherty for sending us the map.