Looking for a historic marker in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania? Below is a comprehensive list of historic markers erected by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) to commemorate significant events in local history.
Marker Name: Bowman Field
County: Lycoming
Date Dedicated: 2000/7/29
Marker Type: Roadside
Location: 1700 West Fourth St., Williamsport
Category: Sports, African American, Baseball
Marker Text:
Built 1926. Long noted as Pennsylvania's oldest operating minor league baseball park and the nation's second oldest. The first professional game here was played April27, 1926, between the Williamsport Grays and the Negro league Harrisburg Giants. Over the years this park became home to successive Williamsport teams and hosted many major league teams for exhibition games. Originally Memorial Field; renamed 1929 for J. Walton Bowman.
Marker Name: Capt. John Brady
County: Lycoming
Date Dedicated: 1947/5/28
Marker Type: Roadside
Location: SR 2014 (old Pa. 147), .8 mile N of Muncy
Category: Military, Native American, American Revolution
Marker Text:
The famed Indian fighter and hero of the colonial wars and the Revolution was killed in ambush by Indians near here April 11, 1779. He was in charge of Fort Brady at present Muncy at the time.
Marker Name: Carl E. Stotz
County: Lycoming
Date Dedicated: 1995/10/10
Marker Type: Roadside
Location: Original Little League Field, W. 4th St., Williamsport
Category: Sports, Baseball
Marker Text:
Founder of Little League Baseball and Commissioner through 1955. Stotz developed the Little League idea in 1938; in the next year three teams played 24 games. It was at this site that Stotz established field distances for the pre-teenage players. The first 12 Little League World Series were held on this field, 1947-1958, and during these years the number of teams grew from 60 to thousands in many nations.
Marker Name: Civilian Conservation Corps
County: Lycoming
Date Dedicated: 1996/9/28
Marker Type: Roadside
Location: Rt. 14 N of Trout Run
Category: Government & Politics, Government & Politics 20th Century
Marker Text:
In March 1933, the federal government created the CCC to combat the Great Depression. During nine years, the CCC enrolled some 3,000,000 youths nationwide--including 194,572 men at 114 camps in Pennsylvania. Members of the 367th CCC company first arrived here, May 30, 1933. Here arose camp S-126, which became home to hundreds of men before it closed in 1936. Many of its members then went to Camp S-145 near Montoursville.
Marker Name: Dietrick Lamade
County: Lycoming
Date Dedicated: 1996/11/23
Marker Type: City
Location: W. 3rd. & Williams Sts., Williamsport
Category: Ethnic & Immigration, Business & Industry
Marker Text:
German-born publisher of the Sunday Grit, for many years a national "family newspaper." He founded it in 1882; this site was its home after 1889. He built Grit on a "good news" concept, an appeal to rural tastes, and a nationwide network of young carriers.
Marker Name: Eagle Grange # 1
County: Lycoming
Date Dedicated: 2001/5/5
Marker Type: Roadside
Location: Rte. 15 and E. Blind Road, Montgomery
Category: Business & Industry
Marker Text:
Pennsylvania's first Grange, officially organized March 4, 1871, two and a half years before organization of the Pennsylvania State Grange on Sept. 18, 1873. The National grange (order of Patrons of Husbandry) had been established in 1867. Objectives of this and other Granges included cooperative purchasing, lowering of railroad rates, and rural free delivery. They pioneered in giving equal status to women. A grange hall was built here, 1887.
Marker Name: Fort Antes
County: Lycoming
Date Dedicated: 1947/5
Marker Type: Roadside
Location: Main & Seminary Sts., Lycoming
Category: Military, Native American, Forts, American Revolution
Marker Text:
Built 1778 by Col. Henry Antes. Stood on the opposite side of the river at the mouth of Nippenose Creek. Nearby was Antes Mill, first in the region. The stockade was abandoned during the Great Runaway; burned by Indians.
Marker Name: Fort Muncy
County: Lycoming
Date Dedicated: 1946/6/4
Marker Type: Roadside
Location: U.S. 220, 3.5 miles N of Muncy (Missing)
Category: Military, American Revolution, Forts
Marker Text:
Site just south. Built early in 1778 by Col. Thomas Hartley. Destroyed by Indians the same year. Rebuilt 1779 and again destroyed, it was rebuilt in 1782. It was the principal post north of Fort Augusta.
Marker Name: Freedom Road Cemetery
County: Lycoming
Date Dedicated: 1993/5/15
Marker Type: Roadside
Location: T-456 in Loyalsock Twp.
Category: Underground Railroad, African-American, Religion
Marker Text:
Daniel Hughes, a lumber raftsman on the Susquehanna, lived here, 1854-80. In the years ending with the Civil War, he brought fugitive slaves here from Maryland, protecting them before they continued north via the Underground Railroad. Hughes gave part of his land for a cemetery, and among those buried here are nine known African-American veterans of the Civil War. The cemetery has borne its present name since 1936.
Marker Name: Lycoming County
County: Lycoming
Date Dedicated: 1981/4/13
Marker Type: City
Location: Lycoming County Courthouse, Williamsport
Category: Government & Politics, Government & Politics 18th Century, Sports, Baseball
Marker Text:
Formed April 13, 1795 out of Northumberland County. The name (from a Delaware Indian word) honors Lycoming Creek. Williamsport, the County Seat, became a borough , 1806, and a city, 1866. Once a great lumbering center. Birthplace of Little League Baseball.
Marker Name: Muncy
County: Lycoming
Date Dedicated: 1952/1/21
Marker Type: Roadside
Location: Pa. 405 E and SR 2014 (old Pa. 147) N of Muncy
Category: Cities & Towns, Native American
Marker Text:
Laid out, 1799, by Benjamin McCarty. Named for the Monsey Indians, tribe of Delawares, who inhabited this area before arrival of the whites. Four Indian paths - Shamokin, Wyalusing, Wyoming, Towanda - formed a junction here.
Marker Name: Muncy Mills
County: Lycoming
Date Dedicated: 1947/5/28
Marker Type: Roadside
Location: Junction Pa. 405 & 442 E of Muncy
Category: Business & Industry, Native American
Marker Text:
The nearby memorial is at the site of this valley's first grist mill. It was built by John Alward about 1772 and burned by Indians 1779. Other mills built on the site in 1783 and 1800. Last mill was used until 1872.
Marker Name: Pennsdale Meeting
County: Lycoming
Date Dedicated: 1946/7/19
Marker Type: Roadside
Location: Junction LR 41154 & LR 41054 near Pennsdale (Missing)
Category: Religion
Marker Text:
The Friend's Meeting House opposite was built in 1799. It was erected to provide a place of worship for the numerous Quaker settlers of this region following the American Revolution.
Marker Name: Pennsdale Meeting
County: Lycoming
Date Dedicated: 1947/5
Marker Type: Roadside
Location: Junction SR 2051 (former LR 41054) & township road (former LR 41154) near Pennsdale
Category: Religion
Marker Text:
The Friends Meeting House opposite was built in 1799. It was erected to provide a place of worship for the numerous Quaker settlers of this region.
Marker Name: Pennsylvania Canal (West Branch Division)
County: Lycoming
Date Dedicated: 1952/7/9
Marker Type: Roadside
Location: Near junction SR 2014 (old Pa. 147) and SR 2036 (old U.S. 220), Halls (Missing)
Category: Transportation, Canals, Navigation
Marker Text:
This Division, built 1828-1834, extended from Northumberland to Farrandsville. Used to Lock Haven until 1889, to Muncy Dam until 1901. Beyond the woods to the south, 1400 feet of vertical wall, 22 feet high, built along the river, support the old towpath.
Marker Name: Peter Herdic
County: Lycoming
Date Dedicated: 1996/11/7
Marker Type: City
Location: 407 W. 4th St., Williamsport
Category: Professions & Vocations, Business & Industry
Marker Text:
Owner, lumber mills, and president, Susquehanna Boom. A key player in making this city the "lumber capital of the world." He invented the "herdic," a rear-entry carriage, and erected many buildings here on Millionaire's Row. His 1854 home is No. 407.
Marker Name: Pine Creek Presbyterian Church
County: Lycoming
Date Dedicated: 1949/2/25
Marker Type: Roadside
Location: SR 3028 (old U.S. 220), .5 mile SW of Jersey Shore (Missing)
Category: Religion
Marker Text:
Just south along Pine Creek was the site of the first Presbyterian Church in this area, organized in 1792. It was the ancestor of the Jersey Shore Presbyterian Church, organized in 1851.
Marker Name: Sheshequin Path
County: Lycoming
Date Dedicated: 1949/3
Marker Type: Roadside
Location: U.S. 15, 2.2 miles S of Trout Run
Category: Transportation, Environment, Paths & Trails
Marker Text:
Branch of Warriors Path; provided a short cut from Tioga to the Big Island, traversing "the dismal wilderness" of Lycoming Creek. Dense forest, swamp, windfall, and storm made Indians believe a demon had power in this valley.
Marker Name: Sheshequin Path
County: Lycoming
Date Dedicated: 1949/3
Marker Type: Roadside
Location: Pa. 14, 1.4 mile NE of Trout Run (Missing)
Category: Transportation, Native American, Paths & Trails
Marker Text:
By this path up Lycoming Creek, Conrad Weiser, with Lewis Evans, map-maker, and John Bartram, botanist, traveled to Onondaga in 1743 on a peace mission for Virginia: "To take the hatchet out of the head of the Six Nations."
Marker Name: Sheshequin Path
County: Lycoming
Date Dedicated: 1949/3
Marker Type: Roadside
Location: Pa. 14 at Marsh Hill
Category: Transportation, Paths & Trails
Marker Text:
Bishop Spangenberg went through this valley on his way to Onondaga in 1745. He was impressed by woods so thick "one does not see the sun all day," and by mountains rising closely round him, suggesting "ant hills."
Marker Name: Susquehanna Log Boom
County: Lycoming
Date Dedicated: 1962/12/19
Marker Type: Roadside
Location: U.S. 15 just S of Williamsport
Category: Business & Industry
Marker Text:
Six-mile series of piers, built by a company incorporated in 1846; used to collect and store logs during the spring log drives down the West Branch. Helped make Williamsport the world's lumber capital prior to 1900. Badly damaged in 1889 flood, the boom declined thereafter.
Marker Name: W. D. Crooks & Sons Door Plant
County: Lycoming
Date Dedicated: 2000/10/26
Marker Type: Roadside
Location: One College Ave. Williamsport, outside the Alvin Bush Campus Center
Category: Business & Industry
Marker Text:
During its 85 years, 1886-1971, this unique family-owned firm produced thousands of high -quality wood -veneer doors for the U.S. capitol, the white House, and other public and private buildings across the nation. Using Pennsylvania hardwoods and many imported varieties of wood, its workers crafted specialty goods during an era of mass production. Founded in South Williamsport, it relocated to this site, 1898; in the 1940's, 125 people worked here.
Marker Name: Williamson Road
County: Lycoming
Date Dedicated: 1947/5
Marker Type: Roadside
Location: U.S. 15 at Trout Run
Category: Transportation, Roads
Marker Text:
Built in 1792-96 by land agent Charles Williamson to open the Genesee lands in N.Y. From Trout Run, it cut through the wilderness to Lawrenceville by the same general route as the present highway.
Marker Name: Williamsport
County: Lycoming
Date Dedicated: 1947/5
Marker Type: Roadside
Location: U.S. 220 E at Williamsport
Category: Cities & Towns
Marker Text:
Laid out 1795 by Michael Ross. Incorporated as a borough 1806; as a city 1866. At one time a leading lumber center of the nation. Trade and travel for over a century.
Marker Name: Williamsport
County: Lycoming
Date Dedicated: 1947/5
Marker Type: Roadside
Location: U.S. 15 S at Williamsport
Category: Cities & Towns
Marker Text:
Laid out 1795 by Michael Ross. Incorporated as a borough 1806; as a city 1866. At one time a leading lumber center of the nation. Trade and travel center for over a century.
Marker Name: Williamsport
County: Lycoming
Date Dedicated: 1947/5
Marker Type: Roadside
Location: U.S. 220 W of Williamsport (Missing)
Category: Cities & Towns
Marker Text:
Laid out 1795 by Michael Ross. Incorporated as a borough 1806; as a city 1866. At one time a leading lumber center of the nation. Trade and travel center for over a century.
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