Crawford County, Pennsylvania

Part I: Directory
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SAEGERTOWN.

This Borough is situated in the eastern border of the township, located on the east bank of French Creek; in the midst of a fine farming country. It was organized as a borough in 1851, and contains about 500 inhabitants. The first settlement here was made about 1796. About 1800 a saw mill was built by Major Alden, on the site of the present mills, from which the place was known as Alden's Mills. Daniel Saeger, in 1824, purchased the mill and laid out the town, and gave it its present name. The first tavern was kept by Peter Saeger. The first school was kept by J. G. David. The postoffice was established in 1833.—It contains four churches, one graded school, three stores keeping general merchandise, one drug store, two shoemaker's shops, four blacksmith shops, one gunsmith, two hotels with livery stables, one tin shop, one marble yard, one furniture and undertaking establishment, one wagon shop, one plaining [sic] mill, one handle factory, one stave mill, one cheese factory, one grist and saw mill, three butcher shops and one sucker-rod manufactory. The Independent Order of Forresters, Court Niagara; Mutual Protection Association; State Police, and Good Templer's, are the secret societies which meet here.