Corydon Township, Warren County, Pennsylvania

Corydon Township
Township
Former location of Corydon Township in modern-day Warren County
Location of Warren County in Pennsylvania
Coordinates: 41°47′0″N 79°1′0″W / 41.78333°N 79.01667°WCoordinates: 41°47′0″N 79°1′0″W / 41.78333°N 79.01667°W
Country	United States
State	Pennsylvania
County	Warren
Settled	1827
Time zone	EST (UTC-4)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-5)
Area code(s)	814

Corydon Township is a defunct township in Warren County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The township was merged in 1964 into Mead Township.

History

Historical population
Year	Pop.
1850	228
1860	302
1870	411
1880	335
1890	527
1900	646
1910	402
1920	330
1930	327
1940	260
1950	263
1960	206
Source: United States Census Bureau

Warren County was formed on March 12, 1800 out of Allegheny County, with the original township of Brokenstraw being formed in that October from everything in the county west of the Allegheny River and Conewango Creek; Conewango Township was formed in March 1808 and consisted of the unincorporated eastern half of Warren County.^[1] On March 26, 1846, a portion of Corydon Township in McKean County was set off for Warren County.^[2][3]

Philip Tome, a native of Dauphin County, was the first settler in Corydon in 1827 and for many years was interpreter for Seneca chiefs Cornplanter and Governor Blacksnake. The Buffalo, New York, and Philadelphia Railroad opened in 1882 and brought growth to the community, bringing in stores, a hotel, a stave-mill, a pulp company, a spoke factory, a handle factory, a saw mill, a shingle mill, and various other industries.^[4]

Construction of the Kinzua Dam caused the resulting Allegheny Reservoir to submerge the majority of the communities in Corydon Township. The township was merged into Mead Township in 1964.^[5]

Geography

Corydon Township was located on a strip of land in the extreme northeastern corner of Warren County, and was bounded Cattaraugus County, New York on the north; McKean County on the east and south; and the Allegheny River on the west.^[6]

References

1. Schenck, p. 259.
2. Hottenstein, p. 127.
3. Schenck, p. 266.
4. Warren County Historical Society History of Warren County Pennsylvania Schenck 1887
5. Hoover, William N (2006). Kinzua: From Cornplanter to the Corps. Lincoln, Nebraska: iUniverse. p. 12. ISBN 0-595-82483-8.
6. Schenck, p. 559.

Sources

• Schenck, J.S.; Rann, R.S., eds. (1887). History of Warren County, Pennsylvania. Syracuse, New York: D. Mason & Co. Retrieved June 4, 2011.
• Hottenstein, JoAnne; Welch, Sibyl (1965). "Warren County". Incorporation dates of Pennsylvania municipalities (PDF). Harrisburg: Bureau of Municipal Affairs, Pennsylvania Department of Internal Affairs. Retrieved June 4, 2011.