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“HISTORY OF SEVEN COUNTIES presented by the Elmira Weekly
Gazette". It is an “Outline History of Tioga and Bradford Counties in
Pennsylvania, Chemung, Steuben, Tioga, Tompkins and Schuyler in New York by
TOWNSHIPS, VILLAGES, BORO’S AND CITIES.” Written expressly for the Gazette
Company, Elmira, N. Y. Copyright 1885.From AN OUTLINE
HISTORY of Tioga
and Bradford
Counties in Pennsylvania,
Chemung, Steuben, Tioga, Tompkins and Schuyler in New York by TOWNSHIPS,
VILLAGES, BORO'S AND CITIES"
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ARMENIA TOWNSHIP
Armenia township was formed in 1843, taken from
Troy and canton townships. It occupies an elevated position on the western
line of the county and forms the water shed between the waters of Sugar creek
and the Tioga river. The Tioga rises in the township and flows in a
southwesterly course into the township of Ward in Tioga county. Although
the lands of the township are situated at an average elevation of eighteen
hundred feet above the sea level, still the soil is quite productive and a
number of good farms are found in the township. From its elevated position
some of the finest landscape views in Northern Pennsylvania are obtained.
It is bounded on the north by Columbia township, on the east by Troy and Canton,
on the south by Canton and on the west by Tioga county.
Early settlers were: Newton Harvey, George
Hawkins, Heman Morgan, Samuel Avery, Silas E. Shepard, Amasa Wood, Joel Wood,
Newell Phinney, Samuel Moore, Joseph Biddle, Alexander Case, John Lyon, Alba
Burnham, Daniel Crandall, William Crandall, Andrew Monroe, Lysander C. Shepard,
Wightman Pierce, William Covert, Abizer Fields, Reuben Mason, Robert Mason,
James Mason, John J. Reynolds, Timothy Randall, John S. Becker, Jacob Y. Dumond,
Gasper Webber, C. H. Webber, John P. Smith, Lyman Hinman.
--The first school house was built in 1834.
--L. P. Newell erected a saw mill, at Armenia, in
1835.
--Rev. Samuel Salsbury preached first in 1835 in
the township.
--The Wesleyan Methodists organized a church in
1845. Church erected in 1879.
--The Tioga river rises in Armenia township, and
flows southwestward, thence north to Corning, east to Elmira and south to
Towanda, and after having flowed one hundred and twenty miles, is within
thirty miles of its source and flowing in the same direction.
--In 1860 there were sixty-two votes cast in the
township, and Armenia furnished fifty-seven soldiers to the Union army.
Eleven soldiers from Armenia during the war of the rebellion lost their lives,
vis: Amos Chapham, Abner Miller, Barlow Smith, Herrick Welch, Sanford
Richmond, Arthur Rundell, James Whitehead,
John H. Dumond, Lincoln Burnham, Judson Knight, Albert Woodworth.