Port Allegany

Port Allegany is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Port Allegany, McKean County, dedicated 1948.

US 6 west of N Main, at bridge, Port Allegany

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Travel point since pioneer days, when travelers coming overland from the Susquehanna continued by water from "Canoe Place." The town grew as a center of lumber and tanning industry. Its descriptive present name came into use about 1840.

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Historical maps covering this location

1827 · Pennsylvania. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1830 · New York (A. Finley, 1830) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1834 · The tourist's pocket map of Pennsylvania (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1848 · Pennsylvania. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1872 · Warren, McKean, Potter, Forest, Elk, Cameron counties. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Warren, McKean, Potter, Forest, Elk, Cameron counties, 1872, covering the location of Port Allegany, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Warren, McKean, Potter, Forest, Elk, Cameron counties, 1872, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Port Allegany

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