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1907 Map of Clarion

Name: 1907 Topographic Map of Clarion
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1914
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1914

About this map

Clarion serves as the central hub of this northern Pennsylvania landscape, situated near the dramatic winding bends of the Clarion River. The turn-of-the-century rural economy is visible through an extensive network of schoolhouses and churches that anchored these townships, including the Buckhorn School in the north and the Leatherwood Church further south. To the southwest, industrial activity is marked by the Jocelyn Mine and Keystone Mine, connected by the steel rails of the Pennsylvania RR.

Smaller settlements and post offices such as Mechanicsville Frampton PO and Waterson Showers PO suggest a era of highly localized post-and-trade networks. Notable landmarks like the County Home near Licking Creek and the notable elevation of Mcclays Peak provide specific points of interest for genealogists and local historians tracing the physical layout of the county before the modern highway system reorganized the region.