History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania

By: Robert W. Smith, Pub. 1883, reprinted 2023, 826 pages, New Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-529-4.  Armstrong County was created in 1800 from Allegheny, Lycoming and Westmoreland Counties. Its early settlers were of Scotch-Irish and English descent.  This book is not too different from other county history books of this era. With such topics as trade and transportation, labor, farming, politics, and Civil War involvement - all important in the development of