Crawford County, Pennsylvania


History
Historical Township Boundaries

WEST SHENANGO TOWNSHIP
Date
Event
1860 Proposed by inhabitants of South Shenango Twp. as Royalton Twp. [q.v.].
14 Aug. 1863 Created from the southwestern part of South Shenango Twp. and the borough of Turnersville.1
We the above named viewers being duely sworn did view the above discribed premices And do report that the same be set off as a new Township to be called West Shenango with the exception of that portion laying north of the land of Wm French late of South Shenango Deceased making the north line of said Frenches Land the north line of said new Township Agreeable to a plot or draft hereto anaxed [sic].   Witness our hands and seals the 2d day of April 1863 [signed] James Espy, E Allen, R S McKay
14 Aug. 1863, report filed approved & confirmed by the Court
1 Crawford County Court of Quarter Sessions #53 November Session 1862 [see papers (at State Archives) for further details]; Crawford County Quarter Sessions Dk. 8:573 (with map).