Corydon Township | |
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 Former location of Corydon Township in modern-day Warren County | |
 Location of Warren County in Pennsylvania | |
| Coordinates:41°47′0″N79°1′0″W / 41.78333°N 79.01667°W /41.78333; -79.01667 | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Pennsylvania |
| County | Warren |
| Settled | 1827 |
| Time zone | UTC-4 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (EDT) |
| Area code | 814 |
Corydon Township is a defuncttownship inWarren County,Pennsylvania in theUnited States. The township was merged in 1964 intoMead Township.
| Year | Pop. |
|---|---|
| 1850 | 228 |
| 1860 | 302 |
| 1870 | 411 |
| 1880 | 335 |
| 1890 | 527 |
| 1900 | 646 |
| 1910 | 402 |
| 1920 | 330 |
| 1930 | 327 |
| 1940 | 260 |
| 1950 | 263 |
| 1960 | 206 |
| Source:United States Census Bureau | |
Warren County was formed on March 12, 1800 out ofAllegheny County, with the original township ofBrokenstraw being formed in that October from everything in the county west of theAllegheny River andConewango Creek;Conewango Township was formed in March 1808 and consisted of the unincorporated eastern half of Warren County.[1] On March 26, 1846, a portion ofCorydon Township inMcKean County was set off for Warren County.[2][3]
Philip Tome, a native ofDauphin County, was the first settler in Corydon in 1827 and for many years was interpreter forSeneca chiefsCornplanter andGovernor Blacksnake. TheBuffalo, New York, and Philadelphia Railroad opened in 1882 and brought growth to the community, bringing in stores, a hotel, a stave-mill, a pulp company, a spoke factory, a handle factory, a saw mill, a shingle mill, and various other industries.[4]
Population of (West) Corydon peaked in 1900; while it received a modest boost in population in the 1890s, it did not experience the massive boom and bust that its neighboring townships along the Allegheny did. It was in a state of persistent decline through the first half of the 20th century and had already shrunk to less than a third of its peak by 1960. Construction of theKinzua Dam caused the resultingAllegheny Reservoir to submerge the remaining communities in Corydon Township. The little remaining land that remained above water was annexed to Mead Township in 1964.[5]
Corydon Township was located on a strip of land in the extreme northeastern corner of Warren County, and was bounded by theTown of South Valley,New York on the north; (East) Corydon in McKean County on the east, Kinzua Township to the south; and the Allegheny River on the west.[6] A ferry service (Webb's Ferry) connected Corydon withElk Township, Warren County, Pennsylvania across the river. The ferry's western terminus in Elk Township remains in use, maintained by theAllegheny National Forest.
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| Footnotes | ‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties | |
