This is an index to miscellaneous Somerset County history materials I've collected or created over the years. Hit your refresh button to see the latest updates!
L. Dietle
Photo tour of the Turkey Foot Road, which ran northwest from Fort Cumberland
The Turkey Foot Road video (1 hour, 48 minutes)
The Mystery Road (1,192 KB pdf)
1881 diary of Josephine Emerick (679KB PDF)
Pack Saddle Bridge
1838 Petition of Isaac Miller for a Tavern in Berlin, Pennsylvania
Somerset County description in 1847 book "Early History of Western Pennsylvania"
1800-1900 census summary, Somerset County, Pennsylvania
171st Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers
Old post cards from Somerset County, Pennsylvania (Index)
1789 Militia list, Londonderry Township, Bedford County
Antique rough brake for a horse-drawn wagon
Robert Smith, Insolvency Law Petition, 1800 Somerset County, Pennsylvania
Somerset County, Pennsylvania Colloquialisms
Somerset Co. chapter from 1847 Early History of Western Pennsylvania and the Western Campaigns (422 KB PDF)
Pittsburgh and Connelsville Railroad Company to Samuel A. Long, 1855, Larimer Township
Was there a fortification in Larimer Township?
Article on Somerset County, Pennsylvania from the 1843 "Historical Collections of the State of Pennsylvania"
Index to maps of Somerset County, Pennsylvania and nearby Allegany County, Maryland
Somerset County created from a portion of Bedford County, 1795
History of Meyersdale, by John Olinger
Gunsmiths of Bedford and Somerset counties, Pennsylvania
Click here to see an interactive map I made that compares the Turkey Foot Road to Braddock's Road.
Click here to see an interactive map I made that shows the route of the Turkey Foot Road.
Finding Sloan's Ford YouTube video (6 minutes 31 seconds).
Digital library of books pertaining to Somerset County, Pennsylvania
In the Land of Used to Be: Memories of a Rural Pennsylvania Childhood (book)
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1790 manuscript census records of Bedford County, Pennsylvania (including what is now Somerset County)
The 1800 manuscript census records of Somerset County, Pennsylvania
The manuscript 1810 census records of Somerset County, Pennsylvania
The manuscript 1820 census records of Somerset County, Pennsylvania
The manuscript 1830 census records of Somerset County, Pennsylvania
The manuscript 1840 census records of Somerset County, Pennsylvania
The John Markley house at Penn Alps
Beeghly: "Progress from early 18th century to present day" (1,828 KB pdf).
A video of a drive on the old "Church Lane" wagon road in Larimer Township
A Little Book of Somerset County Verse (26,280 KB pdf)
Christian Sturtz Sr. & Jr. land transactions, Somerset Co. Pennsylvania (Index)
Southampton Township militia lists (1823, 1825, 1836)
Who were the three unidentified gunsmiths referenced in the 1810 Somerset County census records?
1938 archaeology article: Recent Discoveries in Somerset County (4,521 KB pdf)
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This excerpt from the 1792 Reading Howell map of Pennsylvania shows the southern part of what would become Somerset County.