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Sullivan County, Pennsylvania
Sullivan County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Laporte
Year Organized: 1847
Square Miles: 450 |
Court House: Main and Muncy Streets
County Courthouse
La Porte, PA 18626-0000
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
named for Senator Charles C. Sullivan, Butler District, who
took an active part in procuring passage of the bill.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
Created on March 15, 1847 from part
of Lycoming County and named for Senator Charles C. Sullivan, Butler District,
who took an active part in procuring passage of the bill. Laporte, the county
seat, was laid out in 1850 and incorporated as a borough in 1853. It was named
for John La Porte, surveyor general of Pennsylvania from 1845 to 1851.
The area was included in the New Purchase from the Indians in 1768, but
Connecticut settlers who had been ousted from the Wyoming Valley entered and had
to be run off by Pennsylvania agents. Pennsylvania settlers were themselves
pushed out by the Indian and Tory attacks of 1778–1780. The Genesee Road from
New York opened up the area, and in 1794 a French refugee founded Dushore. A
woolen industry was productive from 1802 until about 1900. Lumber and the
related leather tanning industry were most productive from 1850 to 1900. Coal
was discovered and mined by the Sullivan and State Line Railroad after 1871.
Eagles Mere became a famous tourist resort in the late nineteenth century. The
population peaked at 12,134 in 1900. Today tourism and some lumber and leather
production survives. Farms cover 11 percent of the land but agricultural
receipts rank low among the sixty-seven counties. State game lands and forest
lands are extensive.
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Cherry |
township |
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- Colley |
township |
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- Davidson |
township |
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- Dushore |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Eagles Mere |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Forksville |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Fox |
township |
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- Hillsgrove |
township |
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- Laporte
(County Seat) |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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,
act locally." |
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