Part 2

Rattlesnake { Changed to “honor” a railroad } Whetham { contractor. }

{ Changed on account of being } Susquehanna { other town of same name in } Nisbet { State. }

{ On former domain of Queen } Riansares { Maria Christina of Spain. } Penny Hill (Mountain) { Named for her husband, the } { Duke of Riansares. }

Stavertown Glen

Burgettstown Langeloth

Reastown { Raystown, { Bedford

Coryell’s Ferry New Hope

Quiggleville Lycoming

Geulich, Gulick (Township) Clearfield County

{ Another railroad blunder in } Benezet { spelling. Named for Anthony } Benezette { Benezet, Quaker Abolitionist. }

Chatham’s Run, Charlton (Hamlet)

Barclay Wyside

{ Here was a big camp of Irish } Paddy’s Run { railroad laborers when Sunbury } East Renovo { and Erie Railroad was } { built about 1864. }

Saltzman East Ferney

{ Named by early Scotch-Irish } Swatragh, { pioneers for a brook in } Swatara (Stream) { Derry, Ireland—Sewataro, } { Swetarrow. }

Powl’s Creek { Pronounced Pole’s Creek. } Powell’s Creek { Spelling should conform. }

Matawanna McVeytown

{ Named for early tribe of } Mingoville { redmen. New name given by } Hecla Park { owners of a picnic park. }

{ A regrettable abbreviation of } Hartley Hall { Major-General Thomas } Hartleton { Hartley’s name. }

Oak Grove { Changed because other town } Avis { of same name in State. }

{ An unaccountable substitution } Derrstown { of first name of Lewis Derr, } Lewisburg { pioneer, for his last name. }

Stitestown { Named for the first settler in } Lebanon { locality. }

{ An obstinate blunder creeping } Paxtang { like a canker into history, } Paxton { as original name was Peshtank! }

Funkstown { Altodale { Mont Alto

Obold Mount Pleasant

Rumberger DuBois

Morgan’s Gap Bull Run Gap

Great Shawanese Ganoga Lake Lake

Woodruffstown { Blockhouse { Liberty

Watsonburg Watsontown

Upland An early Swedish settlement Chester

Boyersville Mazeppa

Green Castle Greencastle

Adamsburg Beaver Springs

Moose’s Pond Mose’s Pond

Chinkalacamoose “Meeting place of the Moose” Clearfield

Straus Schuyler

Zermatt Holstein

Germantown { North Junction { Philadelphia

{ Changed by Railroad Company, } { which had another station } Georgetown { of same name. New name } Dalmatia { sounds nice, but of no local } { significance. }

Kishekokelas Kishacoquillas

Jamesburg Oriole

Swartztown Milton

Cameronia Montandon

The Spirit of the Name-Vandal!

Exit Muckelrat and Enter Woodland Hills

Muckelrat is gone forever, the “Village of Woodland Hills” takes its place and every citizen holds his head erect these days and smiles a happy smile.

The territory comprising the one-time Muckelrat includes that part of Wilkins Township, hounded by Braddock road, Filmore road, Glasgow road, Fairview avenue and Ridge avenue.

The formal announcement of this change was made in a communication to The Sun today, signed “Citizens of Woodland Hills.”—PITTSBURG SUN, 1921.

Changing the Face of History

There is another aspect of the ruthless spirit of the day which holds nothing of the past sacred and secure. That is the modernization of Civil War memorials. Most of these erected thirty years ago, instead of showing the rugged, long-haired, bearded, loosely clad soldier of Civil War times represented the “Civil War” warrior to look like the trim National Guardsman of the Nineties, with short hair, curled mustache, and tight-fitting uniform. Those erected recently, take, for example, the Bucktail monument at Driftwood, and the Union League Club Regiment monument at Philadelphia, represent the Civil War soldier as short haired and clean shaven. The typical Civil War soldier was neither of these, even if a few shaved their whole faces once in six weeks. All let their hair stay long; that was part of the tradition of the war, while most of the boys allowed their beards to grow and have never shaved them off to this day. The short-haired, clean-shaved Civil War soldier never existed outside of the careless imagination of modern sculptors, and in only a single monument at Gettysburg Battlefield is the real soldier of the period depicted, that sole exception being in the bronze figure on the monument of the Fifth Minnesota Regiment. Even Violet Oakley has fallen into the popular error with her Lincoln and Meade murals in the Senate Chamber at Harrisburg, but she goes most artists one better by giving her clean-shaven soldier boys “Dutch cuts,” from which their locks were as free as their cheeks were of the razor. Why can’t real Civil War soldiers be put on these monuments, and not faces and costumes typical of 1915-1921—a crime in the eyes of historic exactitude. The Civil War soldier, South as well as North, was a Poilu, and the razor applied by sculptors half a century later has stripped him of one of his principal claims to individuality. As the noted French author, Maurice Barres, remarked, in speaking of the hairy French soldiers of the World War, “Their beards have been part of the war, and of our courage.” The bearded Civil War soldier bespoke his period, and told the story of camp and campaign, and any attempt to change him now makes the memorials historically ineffective. This is a phase of monument construction for our able State Art Commission to consider in co-operation with Dr. Donehoo’s Historical Commission. Clean-shaved Civil War soldiers are as historically out of place as if the typical American “Doughboy” of the World War were put on a pedestal with Lord Rocksavage side-whiskers or Lord Fauntleroy tresses. Let us be correct and exact in every detail, if we are to build for the ages to come!

H. W. S.

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Pennsylvania Alpine Club

THE CREED: To protect, study and preserve, wherever possible, the history, folk lore, folk songs and proverbs of our mountain people. To preserve historic place names and their rightful spelling, Indian traditions and Indian names. To secure the Pennsylvania Mountains a wider popularity and appreciation. To work for pure air, pure water, pure manhood and womanhood against the inroads of the modern complex, urban civilization. To save the ancient landmarks, such as old forts and other pioneer structures and memorials, and historic and noteworthy trees and groves. To create a sentiment for the education and moral encouragement of the Pennsylvania mountain children, neglected in favor of the children of the Kentucky and Tennessee mountains. To stand at all times for the American Flag and Pennsylvania Beautiful.

For the establishment of new Chapters and membership, apply to J. Herbert Walker, Secretary and Historian, Box 328, Scranton Pa. Program of Spring and Fall Outings on Application.

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Transcriber’s Notes

pg 4 changed: into New York and you find a vertiable to: into New York and you find a veritable

pg 8 changed: How perfectly flat and inocuous to: How perfectly flat and innocuous

pg 12 changed: Named for early tribe of red-men. to: Named for early tribe of redmen.