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Bradford County, Pennsylvania
Bradford County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Towanda
Year Organized: 1810
Square Miles: 1,151 |
Court House: 301 Main Street
County Courthouse
Towanda, PA 18848-1851
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
Originally named Oneida County for the lake of the same name.
On March 24, 1812 it was formally renamed for William Bradford, second Attorney
General of the United States.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
Created on February 21, 1810, from
parts of Luzerne and Lycoming Counties and named Oneida County for the lake of
the same name. On March 24, 1812 it was formally renamed for William Bradford,
second Attorney General of the United States. Towanda, the county seat, was
incorporated as a borough on March 5, 1828 and named for Towanda Creek.
After the Revolution, veterans of the Sullivan expedition against the Indians
and Dutch immigrants from New York settled the area. French refugees flourished
at Azilium from 1793 to 1804. The county was part of the area plagued by
disputes over land claims based on settlement by people from Connecticut.
Englishman Robert Barclay began coal mining in 1812, which buttressed the
economy and spawned a canal and a railroad. As Barclay's mines were closing, a
lumber boom began, and it flourished until about 1930. Dairy farming is
presently the backbone of the economy; the county has many small farms. These
cover 46 percent of the land. Athens, Towanda, and Canton were Underground
Railroad stations, and David Wilmot struggled against slavery in Congress with
his many Wilmot Provisos. The myth of the French Queen Marie Antoinette's plan
to flee to French Azilium has provided local color. Also, the history of the
misdeeds of members of a family named Pool once gave rise to a theory that they
had a genetic criminal makeup. This was musician Stephen Foster's home.
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Alba |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Armenia |
township |
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- Asylum |
township |
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- Athens |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Burlington |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Canton |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Herrick |
township |
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- Le Raysville |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Litchfield |
township |
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- New Albany |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- North Towanda |
township |
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- Orwell |
township |
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- Overton |
township |
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- Ridgebury |
township |
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- Rome |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Sayre |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Sheshequin |
township |
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- South Creek |
township |
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- South Waverly |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Standing Stone |
township |
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- Sylvania |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Terry |
township |
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- Towanda
(County Seat) |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Troy |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Ulster |
township |
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- Ward |
township |
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- Wells |
township |
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- West Burlington |
township |
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- Wilmot |
township |
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- Windham |
township |
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- Wyalusing |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Wysox |
township |
County Resources:
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County Resource Guide
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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic
features of our country!"
But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.
Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally,
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Penn Foster High School
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