Crawford County, Pennsylvania

Date	Event
Origins:	Laid out as Rockville after construction of the Meadville & Erie Turnpike, possibly in 1819, by Henry Minium, who began selling lots by 1825. Also known as Gravel Run and possibly Keplertown. Woodcock P.O. established 1830. Called Rockville on the 1839 county map, Woodcock on 1848 county map.¹
27 April 1844	Incorporated from Woodcock Twp. ²
	Be it enacted ... that the territory lying in the township of Woodcock, in the county of Crawford, included within the following boundaries, viz: Bounded on the north by the south line of Venango township, on the east by land of David Humes, William Griffith, Elias Wicoff and Daniel Shaffer, on the south by land of Henry Rust to the Waterford and Susquehanna turnpike; thence from the south-east corner of land of Jacob Rust, westerly by land of Henry Rust to the east line of land of John M. Humes; and thence northerly by land of John M. Humes and Thomas M. Humes, to the south line of Venango township, containing 640 acres, is hereby erected into a borough, to be called the borough of Woodcock.
18 April 1852	Made subject to the 1851 Act re: boroughs.³

¹ Crawford Co. Deed Bk. K-1:196. 1885 Crawford Co. Hist., 703. F. Seely & J. Helmreich, Crawford Co. Place Names (2nd ed.), 39. RETURN

² 1844 Pa. Laws 429 (No. 287). A "Diagram of the Borough of Woodcock" was recorded 12 Jan. 1846 at Crawford Co. Deed Bk. Z-1:54. RETURN

³ Crawford Co. Court of Quarter Sessions Dk. 6:26, #17 April Session 1852. CCo. Place Names (2nd ed.), at 39, erroneously states that the charter was abandoned. RETURN