Warren County Historical Society
      210 Fourth Avenue, PO Box 427
       Warren, Pennsylvania 16365
           814-723-1795 

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Video by Barbara Crowley.  Lesson plan by Cindy DeChano.

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Appalachians

Oil-gas-350,000,000 years

Ice Age

Forests – hemlock, white pine, et cetera

Senecas – Iroquois:  corn, beans, squash

French Explorers

Britain

1775 – USA

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Dr. J. Warren – Rev. War, reasons, biography

D. Jackson, A. Tanner

1794 – Irvine surveying – no mention of Ellicott

Warren County Population Chart 1800-2000 (233 – 43,863)

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Transportation – land/water

Lumber and Rafting

Oil and Tanning for early industries

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Struthers Library Theatre

Thomas Struthers biography      Ohio – father from Scotland

                                                Buying/selling land – 1834:  lawyer

                                                Railroad – Oil Creek RR – Banks

1859 – Drake’s Well, oil

1882 – Public Library, $80,000

            Opera House

            Rental spaces

            Masonic Hall

1883 – Died at age 90

1984 – Renovation of Library Theatre

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