| McKean County History | |
Main Street, Bradford, PA |
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 History of McKean County |
McKean Abstracts |
| Remember When (People and Places) |
Medical History |
| 1941 Post Offices |
Mineral Sanitarium |
| Tuna Valley first families |
Post Cards |
| Music History |
McKean County - 1850's Bank note |
| 1946 Flood |
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| HISTORY EXTERNAL LINKS | |
| ..... | The Great Smethport Fire 1933 |
| Smethport 1938 Newspaper Transcriptions - external link | Bradford area History - external link |
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Voice of the Valley Video |
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McKean County Pennsylvania was established March 26, 1804, being set off from Lycoming.
On December 13, 1805, Governor McKean appointed John Prevost, John
Bell, and Thomas Smith trustees for the new county under the act of
March 26
- Keating Township was established in 1824
- Bradford Township in 1828
- Liberty in 1828
- Corydon in 1829
- Hamilton in 1834
- Norwich in 1835
- Lafayette and Eldred in 1843
- Hamlin in 1844
- Otto in 1854
- Annin in 1860
- Smethport was organized in 1853
- Bradford borough in 1873
- Foster township in 1880
- Eldred
- Kane boroughs since 1878
- Port Allegany was organized in 1882
- Kendall borough in 1881
- Duke Centre (since discontinued)
- townships established when the county was organized are Sargeant and Ceres