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Southampton Township, Somerset County, PA history

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  • The Cook farmstead on East Mineral Street

  • Emerick Cemetery, Southampton Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania

  • Photos of Comp's Lutheran and Reformed Church

  • Jacob Knuff 1845 Southampton Township tavern petition

  • The gunsmith Benjamin Troutman (1780-1856)

  • The gunsmith Daniel Benjamin Troutman (1822-1891)

  • Sept. 18, 1930 article about Wellersburg & Southampton Township

  • Catharine Troutman, Consort of William (tombstone), Wellersburg, PA

  • Daniel Benjamin Troutman Muzzle Loading Rifle Photos

  • Southampton twp. descriptions in Somerset County history books

  • Mystery rock stacks near a steep gully along the old turnpike/plank road

  • Agreement, Samuel Witt & George Cook, Jr.

  • Rachel Troutman to Benjamin Troutman, 1871

  • Estate of Samuel Witt to John Long, 1846

  • Isaac Harden of Southampton Township, Somerset County, PA (index)

  • The board yard

  • 1838 John Harden to Richard Gaumer article of agreement for 179 acres

  • Southampton Twp, Somerset Co. created from a portion of Bedford Co., 1800

  • Christian Sturtz, early Somerset County resident

  • Eber Cockley's 1967 notes on the Leydig family.

  • Click here to see a video about the old Somerset County wagon road known as East Mineral Street.

  • Daniel Korns's coal mine

  • Earl Korns's steam shovel

  • Getz Cemetery Listings (148 KB PDF)

  • Sturtz Cemetery, Southampton Township, Somerset County, PA

  • Photos of, and 1876 map to a water-powered sawmill site, Southampton Township

  • The board yard

  • Will of Isaac Harden's second wife Catherine

  • The Mull House where church services were held before the Mulls congregation built a church.

  • William Kennell and his wife Effie (Lepley) Kennell

  • The old log house along Grandview Drive on the Troutman farm

  • The Lepley stone house on Hill Road

  • The Blubaugh Place on Rizer Road

  • Southampton Township militia lists (1823, 1825, 1836)

  • Tracing ownership of the Sturtz/Korns farm

  • A geographic reference to a Southampton Township gunpowder mill

  • Kennells Mill School, Southampton Township

  • Photos of Lepley gunsmithing tools and leftover muzzleloading gun parts

  • Analysis of the Southampton Township portion of the 1818 Melish-Whiteside map

  • Remains of Fink's Church along Glencoe road

  • Mountain School page, with map

  • Spruce Bank School, near Wellersburg, PA

  • Dom Farm near Wellersburg, Pennsylvania

  • Water powered mill near the Kennels Mills-area fulling mill

  • Railroad along Gladdens Run


  • Old store located near site of Kennells Mill

  • Old bridge abutment from the Palo Alto Road near fulling mill site

  • Gladdens postoffice, near Kennell's Grist Mill, 1927

  • 1939 photo of fields in Richie Hollow

  • Southampton Township map from 1876 Beers atlas of Somerset County

  • Gladdens Run Church, Southampton Township

  • Photos of Comp's Lutheran and Reformed Church

  • Korns School

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