***RHETA please email me again!***I am looking for those of you who have heard about slaves being buried in the Imes (Iames) Cemetery before David Bradley wrote "The Chaneysville Incident". Please send me a message!!!***
1625-Thomas Powell's Expedition arrived from Jamestown, Virginia, where they saw the first Indians near the Warrior's Path
1728-The first 13 settlers moved into this area
1737-Joseph Powell built a Trading Post on Little Sweet Root, about the same time his cousin Robert Ray opened his Trading Post near Bedford
1737-Huff discovered Saltpetre Cave in Sweet Root Gap
1764-Mason and Dixon were commissioned to survey and mark the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania
1758-Indians invaded Chaneysville
1758-Fort Bedford was constructed
1766-Village of Bedford was surveyed, Bedford was named for the Duke of Bedford, before that time it was known as Raystown, probably because of Robert Ray's Trading Post
1771-Bedford County was formed on March 9th of that year
1784-Two Methodist Preachers arrived in Beans Cove, Southampton Twp.
1787-Pennsylvania became the 2nd state, eventually it was divided into 67 counties
1799-Southampton Twp. was organized
1806-First log school was built
1830-Thomas Chaney Jr. built his house in Chaneysville, his family had moved here in 1786 from Washington Co. Md.
1840-Monroe Twp. seceded from Southampton Twp. and Providence Twp.
1840-William Perdew a Revolutionary War Veteran died.
1862-Confederate cavalry scouts entered Black Valley from Flintstone, Md. and camped near Chaneysville
1869-New framed schools were built
1876-Mann Twp. was erected from Southampton Twp.
1879-Hewitt Covered Bridge was approved for use
1921-Forester W. Byers had the Martin Hill Fire Tower built
1930-Someone started a fire on Tussey Mt. that burned 1150 acres on May 4 & 5.
1935-CCC camps were set up in Sweet Root and Blankley Parks.
1949-P.T.A. was organized
1957-Sweet Root Park opened in July
1960-Chaneysville Volunteer Fire Company received their charter in January
1981-David Bradley wrote the novel "The Chaneysville Incident" a story of 13 runaway slaves who passed through Chaneysville
1986-Sponsored by the Chaneysville Seniors, Mabel Hoffman was crowned "Ms. Senior Pa." (honoring women 60 and over) in Nov. at Hershey, Pa.
1987-April 1st in Atlantic City, Mabel Hoffman won the title of "Ms. Senior America".
1989-"In late 1980s, a BLACK panther paid visits to Chaneysville Cove School grounds, witnessed by law enforcement, 6 teachers & 30 students, who have never forgotten those events." (quoted cryptomundo.com)
1998-Trica Miller complied a list of Veterans buried in Southampton Twp.
2000-Hewitt Covered Bridge restored
2001-Dec. 17th UPMC-Bedford Memorial Hospital donated $1000.00 to each of the 13 local fire companies including Chaneysville.
2002-On March 16th the Martin Hill Fire Tower (built in 1921) was quietly removed. It is no longer the icon for Southampton Township that could be seen from miles around on a clear day.
2002-Chaneysville and Hewitt are included (with photos) in an article written about the Mason-Dixon Line by Anna & Lou Leopold for the June/August issue of the magazine "Westsylvania".
2004-Fire at the "hotel"
2007-Feb. 15th the Everett Area School Board voted to close Chaneysville-Cove Elementary School at the end of the school term.
2007-March 14th Headlines from the Bedford Gazette read "Chaneysvlle parents file complaint; Group hires lawyer to review closing of elementary school"
2007-Friday, July 13 the Honorable Judge Howsare ruled the Everett school board's action was "an abuse of discretion" and Chaneysville-Cove Elementary will remain open.
2007-The following week the school board put an automatic supersdeas on Judge Howsare's July 13th ruling, thus the school will be closed and the children will be bused over Tussey Mountain, unless...
2007- August 17th Save Small Schools won once again against the school board when the Honorable Judge Howsare ordered the automatic supersedeas would be lifted and Chaneysville-Cove Elementary would be opened August 29th.
2007-August 29th the doors of Chaneysville-Cove Elementary opened as they had since 1954. The only difference is the bus routes.
2008-What I've learned from the CERT (Certified Emergency Response Team) class is to be prepared for any size emergency by having a Personal/Family Preparedness Go-Kit ready!
2008- March-DSL has finally arrived in Chaneysville.
2008- May 4th- History Hike to Salt Peter Cave
*There are 25 townships in Bedford County. Southampton Township is the second largest in square miles, but the least populated with only about 12 people per square mile.
*Southampton Twp. is 80 square miles.
*One third of that land is State Forest and State Game Land.
*There is 39 miles of township roads.
*The 2000 Census show 1010 people living in Southampton Twp.
*There are 435 registered voters in Southampton Twp.
*Pennsylvania stands for Penns Woods(because of William Penn) and sylvan, meaning "a forested region".
Hammond, Nightingale, Hoover
Knoll, McKenzie, Humberston, Brockey
Williams, Layton, Winck, Clark, McDaniels
Donivan, Ward, Burton, Dean
Forgotten Places by Stacy Dunkle Information on Joseph Thropp, the Earlston Furance and some great photos of the Sweet Root Park area.
Limestone caves by D. Carns Jr. Caves and Hydrology of Martin Mountain, Beans Cove, PA.
www.rootsweb.com/~paphsbc Pioneer Historical Society in Bedford Pa.
www.jamestown.org to open the site on Jamestown. VA.
www.seanet.com to open the site on the 13 Original Colonies
www.apva.org to open the another site on Jamestown, VA.
