History of Perry County, Pennsylvania : including descriptions of Indian and pioneer life from the time of earliest settlement,
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Ancestry.com. History of Perry County, Pennsylvania : including descriptions of Indian and pioneer life from the time of earliest settlement, [database on-line]. Provo, UT: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005. Original data: Hain, Harry Harrison,. History of Perry County, Pennsylvania : including descriptions of Indian and pioneer life from the time of earliest settlement, sketches of its noted men and women and many professional men. Harrisburg, Pa.: Hain-Moore Co., 1929.
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Table of Contents
- Front matter
- Title page
- Map of Perry County
- Contents
- Chapter I. Location, physical features, geology, etc.
- Chapter II. Earliest records of Indian inhabitants
- Chapter III. Intruding settlers evicted
- Chapter IV. Treaty of peace, but a devastating Indian warfare
- Chapter V. Simon Girty, the renegade
- Chapter VI. Duncans and Haldemans Islands
- Chapter VII. Coming of the trader
- Chapter VIII. Coming of the pioneers
- Chapter IX. Perry County in the Revolutionary War
- Chapter X. Perry County territory in the War of 1812
- Chapter XI. The province and "Mother Cumberland"
- Chapter XII. Perry County established
- Chapter XIII. The fight for the county seat
- Chapter XIV. Trials and highways
- Chapter XV. Old landmarks, mills and industries
- Chapter XVI. The earliest churches
- Chapter XVII. The county schools, past and present
- Chapter XVIII. Academies and public institutions
- Chapter XIX. Postrider and stagecoach
- Chapter XX. Rivers, streams, and old ferries
- Chapter XXI. River and canal transportation
- Chapter XXII. Building of the Pennsylvania Railroad
- Chapter XXIII. Projected and other railroads
- Chapter XXIV. The Sunday school movement in Perry
- Chapter XXV. The liquor question
- Chapter XXVI. The countys public officials
- Chapter XXVII. The bench and bar
- Chapter XXVIII. The public press
- Chapter XXIX. Banks and corporations
- Chapter XXX. Countys early years--A comparison (1820-1860)
- Chapter XXXI. Perry County in the Sectional War. (The Civil War)
- Chapter XXXII. The Spanish-American War
- Chapter XXXIII. The World War, and Perry County
- Chapter XXXIV. Perry Countys noted men, and prominent descendants abroad
- Chapter XXXV. Agriculture in Perry County
- Chapter XXXVI. The Tuscarora Forest
- Chapter XXXVII. Perry County from many viewpoints
- Chapter XXXVIII. Perry Countys boroughs, townships and villages
- Index
