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manufacturing and lumber interests; religious, educational, and social development; geology and agriculture; military record; sketches of boroughs, townships, and villages; portraits and biographies of pioneers and representative citizens, etc. etc
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valley through which it passed to the head thereof." The stretch from the mouth of White Deer Hole Creek to the head of the
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to the river, where there was a fording to Great Island". A small part of the crossing over the hills has been incorporated into the
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44:Lock Haven, Pennsylvania
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