For the Middle Susquehanna Valley, 1778 was especially frightening. Raids threatened isolated farms and settlements. Settlers fled down the West Branch in what became known as the Great Runaway. Colonel Thomas Hartley demonstrated that a relatively small Continental force could reverse that movement during the Battle of Indian Hill on September 29, 1778.
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The word home, can conjure a flood of memories. Lewis C. Heddens, who was born and grew up on Mill Street in Danville, Montour County, in the early 1900s, shared vivid accounts of the men, women, and children who walked and worked on the main thoroughfare.
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Constructed in 1848-49 as a freight handling warehouse, Lewistown Station is described as the oldest surviving structure known to have been built by the Pennsylvania Railroad.
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Historians report Conrad Weiser, who acted as an interpreter between the Indians and whites, was envious of the beautiful “island” and traded his gun to Chief Shikellamy in exchange for the Isle of Que.
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