Crawford County, Pennsylvania

Part I: Directory
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RICHMOND TOWNSHIP.

WAS formed in 1830. It lies ih [sic] the interior of the county and contains 2,744 acres. It is wall [sic] watered by Woodcock, Muddy, and Mackey Creeks. The population of the township by the census of 1870 was 1,399 whose avocations are principally lumbering and dairying. The earliest settlers in this township are Daniel and Lucius Winston and Horace Hurlburt from Cortland county N. Y. Dean Swift moved in from New Haven[,] Conn. in 1816, and Ebenezer Hunt came from Vermont in 1818. John Brown of "Ossawatamie" moved to Richmond when he was 26 years old in the year 1826, where he erected a tannery which combined with farming sheep rearing he carried on until he removed to Ohio in 1835. The township contains twelve schools with an average attendance of 240, costing annually about $1,600. Lyona and Mew [sic; New] Richmond are the Post offices located within the township.