Crawford County, Pennsylvania
History & Biography
DIRECTORY
OF
Crawford County, Pa.
FOR
1871-721
CONTENTS
PUBLISHER’S REMARKS2
HEREWITH is presented to the people of Crawford County the first complete County Directory. It has been prepared and issued under many difficulties, which will be appreciated only by those who have had experience in like enterprises.
We are well aware it contains many imperfections and inaccuracies, but in the main it will be found correct and reliable. We present the work, such as it is, to our generous patrons in full faith that it will prove universally acceptable and worthy of patronage.
The work will be continued annually,3 with such additions and improvements as we may be able to add from time to time. Thanking our business men for advertising favors, we submit the result of our labors.
JNO. M. ARTERS, PUBLISHER.
CITIES
Meadville ·
Titusville
BOROUGHS
Cambridge Springs ·
Centreville Borough ·
Cochranton ·
Conneautville ·
Conneaut Lake ·
Hydetown ·
Spartansburg ·
Venango
POST OFFICES
Meadville
[Sketch], pp. 22-42
Meadville in 1805
Railway Facilities.
Allegheny College.
Manufacturing Interests.
Banks.
Societies and Lodges.
Church Directory.
Public Schools.
Fire Department.
City Government.
County Officers.
Titusville
[Sketch], pp. 123-133
[headings:]
Titusville’s Future.
The Oil Trade.
Manufacturing Interests.
Societies and Lodges.
Churches.
Banks.
Titusville City Officers.
Fire Department.
Production since 1859.
Number of Producing Wells - Average Capacity - Number of Wells Completed in 1868.
Stocks on Hand in the United States and Europe Jan. 1, 1868 and 1869.
Recent Improvements., pp.
[Directory], pp.
1 Jno. M. Arters, comp., Directory of Crawford County, Pa. for 1871-1872, Comprising a List of All Residents, Together with Historical Sketches of the County, and Embracing Statistical and General Information and the Advertisements of the Principal Business Houses. (Meadville, Pa.: By the comp., 1871) [printed at Corry, Pa., by the Daily Republican Steam Printing House] RETURN
2 Ibid., p. 10. RETURN
3 Such was not the case; the next city or county directories to appear were in 1874 and 1879-80. RETURN
