Crawford County, Pennsylvania

HISTORICAL BOROUGH BOUNDARIES

VALONIA / VALLONIA / VALLONIA CITY

Date	Event
Origins:	Laid out in 1866 by executors of the Edward Huidekoper estate.¹
11 June 1868	Incorporated as Valonia from Vernon Twp. ²
	[Boundaries not given in the decree; according to the petition:] Beginning at a point on French Creek near New Bridge, thence n. 14° w. 500 feet, thence n. 77—° e. 250 feet, thence n. 14° w. 2,015 feet to Rogers Ferry Road, thence along said road n. 77—° e. about 1400 feet to French Creek, thence by the various meanderings of French Creek to the place of beginning.
14 Jan. 1904	Annexed to Meadville as the Fifth Ward.³
	Ordered ... that the territory included within the boundariers of what was known as the Borough of Vallonia be, and the same is arranged into and created a new ward of the City of Meadville, Pennsylvania, which new ward is hereby designated as the Fifth Ward of said City of Meadville

¹ 1885 Crawford Co. Hist., 684. An 1866 "Map of Vallonia City Lots" is on file at Drawer 2, #34D, Crawford Co. Historical Society Library. RETURN

² Crawford Co. Court of Quarter Sessions Dk. 10:442, April Session 1868, as recorded 20 Nov. 1869 at Crawford Co. Agreement Bk. B:488. RETURN

³ Crawford Co. Court of Quarter Sessions Civil Dk. 1:125-26, #72 May Session 1903. Vallonia had been called "a suburb of Meadville" as early as 1879 (1879-80 Crawford Co. Directory, p. 141). RETURN