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None of the more than 50 structures of French Azilum remain. The house and garden plots were absorbed into larger tracts of farmland. The LaPorte House, built in 1836 by the son of one of the founders of the colony, includes delicately painted ceilings and interior decor which reflect the French influence, and functions as a house museum. An ...
John Laporte (1798–1862), born in Asylum, congressman from Pennsylvania [7]; Ada Matilda (Cole) Bittenbender, born 1848 in Asylum, and by 1888 she was the first woman admitted to practice before the Supreme Court and the third woman admitted to the bar in Nebraska.
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Location of Lycoming County in Pennsylvania. This is a list of the Pennsylvania state historical markers in Lycoming County.. This is intended to be a complete list of the official state historical markers placed in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC).
Location of Forest County in Pennsylvania. This is a list of the Pennsylvania state historical markers in Forest County.. This is intended to be a complete list of the official state historical markers placed in Forest County, Pennsylvania by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC).
In 1793, the French Catholic settlement of French Azilum was founded on the banks of the Susquehanna River near Standing Stone. It was meant as a refuge for French aristocrats fleeing persecution in the French Revolution and slave uprisings in the French colony of Saint-Domingue . [ 6 ]
French Azilum: Bradford County: 1793 Freytown: Lackawanna County [50] Frick's Lock: Chester County: East Coventry Township: Frogtown: Westmoreland County: Salem Township: a coal mining ghost town [51] Gold Mine [52] Grays Run: An obscure logging town. [53] Greenwood Furnace: Huntingdon County: Jackson Township
Map of eastern Pennsylvania showing important locations for the history of Joseph Priestley and the area. Following the French and Indian War (1755–63) and the forced migration of Native American tribes westward, German, Scots-Irish, and other European immigrants settled in the central Susquehanna Valley, including in the area that would become Northumberland, Pennsylvania. [1]