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Year

Event

1826 - May 3

Wharton Townhip, Potter County formed from part of Eulalia. The township was Named for Isacc Wharton, an early landowner. Portage Township of Cameron County was part of Wharton at this time. (Potter County History)

1826 or 1827

Zenos C. Cowley settles in Prestonville (Sizerville) (J.H. Beers pg 828)

1827

McKean County finally fully established  with Potter county attached for judicial purposes.

Between

1828 and 1845

The following families settle in Prestonville (Sizerville) Samuel Bliss (property later owned by Lucien B. Jones; was this Samuel Ward Bliss who later lived in Penfield?) & Mr. Rice. (J.H. Beers pg 828)

1830 or 1831

The salt works near Sizerville opened. (Lycoming Salt Co.? or perhaps Wyalusing Salt Manufacturing Company - founded 1831 in Bradford) (J.H.Beers)

1842

Portage Township, Potter County created from part of Wharton Township . (ref: Dan Hyde’s Potter County History)

1846

Isaac Burlingame settles in Prestonville (Sizerville) J.H. Beers pg 829

1847

William L. Ensign, buys and settles on a small farm in Portage township (then part of Potter County). (J.H.Beers)

1849

Ebenezer and Lurena Peasley move to Portage Valley with their three children: Eli, James and Sarah Ann. They are the 4th family to arrive in Portage Valley. The road from Keating Summit to Gardeau was a path through the woods. Nineteen times it crossed a stream in five miles.