Lock Haven, Pennsylvania
Lock Haven, Pennsylvania | |
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Clinton County Courthouse, Lock Haven (1869), Samuel Sloan and Addison Hutton, architects[2] | |
Map of Pennsylvania highlighting Clinton County | |
Map of Clinton County highlighting Lock Haven | |
Coordinates: 41°08′16″N 77°27′03″W / 41.13778°N 77.45083°WCoordinates: 41°08′16″N 77°27′03″W / 41.13778°N 77.45083°W[3] | |
Country | United States |
State | Pennsylvania |
County | Clinton County |
Settled | 1769 |
Incorporated (borough) | 1844 |
Incorporated (city) | 1870 |
Government | |
• Type | Council-Manager |
• Mayor | Richard P. Villelo, Jr. |
• Manager | Richard Marcinkevage |
Area | |
• Total | 2.7 sq mi (7 km2) |
• Land | 2.5 sq mi (6 km2) |
• Water | 0.2 sq mi (0.5 km2) 5.64% |
Elevation[3] | 561 ft (171 m) |
Population (2010)[4] | |
• Total | 9,772 |
• Density | 3,643.9/sq mi (1,406.9/km2) |
Time zone | EST (UTC-5) |
• Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
Zip code | 17745 |
Area code(s) | 570 Exchanges:484,748,893 |
Website | City of Lock Haven |
The city of Lock Haven is the county seat of Clinton County, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Located near the confluence of the West Branch Susquehanna River and Bald Eagle Creek, it is the principal city of the Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, micropolitan statistical area, itself part of the Williamsport–Lock Haven combined statistical area. At the 2010 census, Lock Haven's population was 9,772.
Built on a site long favored by pre-European peoples, Lock Haven began in 1833 as a timber town and a haven for loggers, boatmen, and other travelers on the river or the West Branch Canal. Resource extraction and efficient transportation financed much of the city's growth through the end of the 19th century. In the 20th century, a light-aircraft factory, a college, and a paper mill, along with many smaller enterprises, drove the economy. Frequent floods, especially in 1972, damaged local industry and led to a high rate of unemployment in the 1980s.
The city has three sites on the National Register of Historic Places—Memorial Park Site, a significant pre-European archaeological find; Heisey House, a Victorian-era museum; and Water Street District, an area with a mix of 19th- and 20th-century architecture. A levee, completed in 1995, protects the city from further flooding. While industry remains important to the city, about a third of Lock Haven's workforce is employed in education, health care, or social services.
History
Pre-European
The earliest settlers in Pennsylvania arrived from Asia between 12000 BCE and 8000 BCE, when the glaciers of the Pleistocene Ice Age were receding. Fluted point spearheads from this era, known as the Paleo-Indian Period, have been found in most parts of the state.[5] Archeological discoveries at the Memorial Park Site 36Cn164 near the confluence of the West Branch Susquehanna River and Bald Eagle Creek collectively span about 8,000 years and represent every major prehistoric period from the Middle Archaic to the Late Woodland period.[6] Prehistoric cultural periods over that span included the Middle Archaic starting at 6500 BCE; the Late Archaic starting at 3000 BCE; the Early Woodland starting at 1000 BCE; the Middle Woodland starting at 0 CE; and the Late Woodland starting at 900 CE.[7] First contact with Europeans occurred in Pennsylvania between 1500 and 1600 CE.[7][8]
Eighteenth century
In the early 18th century, a tribal confederacy known as the Six Nations of the Iroquois, headquartered in New York, ruled the Indian (Native American) tribes of Pennsylvania, including those who lived near what would become Lock Haven. Indian settlements in the area included three Munsee villages on the 325-acre (1.32 km2) Great Island in the West Branch Susquehanna River at the mouth of Bald Eagle Creek. Four Indian trails, the Great Island Path, the Great Shamokin Path, the Bald Eagle Creek Path, and the Sinnemahoning Path, crossed the island, and a fifth, Logan's Path, met Bald Eagle Creek Path a few miles upstream near the mouth of Fishing Creek.[9] During the French and Indian War (1754–63), colonial militiamen on the Kittanning Expedition destroyed Munsee property on the Great Island and along the West Branch. By 1763, the Munsee had abandoned their island villages and other villages in the area.[10][11]
Nineteenth century
Lock Haven was laid out as a town in 1833,[15] and it became the county seat in 1839, when the county was created out of parts of Lycoming and Centre counties.[16] Incorporated as a borough in 1840 and as a city in 1870,[15] Lock Haven prospered in the 19th century largely because of timber and transportation. The forests of Clinton County and counties upriver held a huge supply of white pine and hemlock as well as oak, ash, maple, poplar, cherry, beech, and magnolia. The wood was used locally for such things as frame houses, shingles, canal boats, and wooden bridges, and whole logs were floated to Chesapeake Bay and on to Baltimore, to make spars for ships. Log driving and log rafting, competing forms of transporting logs to sawmills, began along the West Branch around 1800. By 1830, slightly before the founding of the town, the lumber industry was well established.[17]
A Lock Haven log boom, smaller than but otherwise similar to the Susquehanna Boom at Williamsport, was constructed in 1849. Large cribs of timbers weighted with tons of stone were arranged in the pool behind the Dunnstown Dam, named for a settlement on the shore opposite Lock Haven. The piers, about 150 feet (46 m) from one another, stretched in a line from the dam to a point 3 miles (5 km) upriver. Connected by timbers shackled together with iron yokes and rings, the piers anchored an enclosure into which the river current forced floating logs. Workers called boom rats sorted the captured logs, branded like cattle, for delivery to sawmills and other owners. Lock Haven became the lumber center of Clinton County and the site of many businesses related to forest products.[20]
The Sunbury and Erie Railroad, renamed the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad in 1861, reached Lock Haven in 1859, and with it came a building boom. Hoping that the area's coal, iron ore, white pine, and high-quality clay would produce significant future wealth, railroad investors led by Christopher and John Fallon financed a line to Lock Haven. On the strength of the railroad's potential value to the city, local residents had invested heavily in housing, building large homes between 1854 and 1856. Although the Fallons' coal and iron ventures failed, Gothic Revival, Greek Revival, and Italianate mansions and commercial buildings such as the Fallon House, a large hotel, remained, and the railroad provided a new mode of transport for the ongoing timber era. A second rail line, the Bald Eagle Valley Railroad, originally organized as the Tyrone and Lock Haven Railroad and completed in the 1860s, linked Lock Haven to Tyrone, 56 miles (90 km) to the southwest. The two rail lines soon became part of the network controlled by the Pennsylvania Railroad.[21]
In terms of board feet, the peak of the lumber era in Pennsylvania arrived in about 1885, when 1.9 million logs went through the boom at Williamsport. These logs produced a total of about 226 million board feet (533,000 m3) of sawed lumber. After that, production steadily declined throughout the state.[22] Lock Haven's timber business was also affected by flooding, which badly damaged the canals and destroyed the log boom in 1889.[24]
The Central State Normal School, established to train teachers for central Pennsylvania, held its first classes in 1877 at a site overlooking the West Branch Susquehanna River. The small school, with enrollments below 150 until the 1940s, eventually became Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania.[25] In the early 1880s, the New York and Pennsylvania Paper Mill in Castanea Township near Flemington began paper production on the site of a former sawmill; the paper mill remained a large employer until the end of the 20th century.
Twentieth century
As older forms of transportation such as the canal boat disappeared, new forms arose. One of these, the electric trolley, began operation in Lock Haven in 1894. The Lock Haven Electric Railway, managed by the Lock Haven Traction Company and after 1900 by the Susquehanna Traction Company, ran passenger trolleys between Lock Haven and Mill Hall, about 3 miles (5 km) to the west. The trolley line extended from the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad station in Lock Haven to a station of the Central Railroad of Pennsylvania, which served Mill Hall. The route went through Lock Haven's downtown, close to the Normal School, across town to the trolley car barn on the southwest edge of the city, through Flemington, over the Bald Eagle Canal and Bald Eagle Creek, and on to Mill Hall via what was then known as the Lock Haven, Bellefonte, and Nittany Valley Turnpike. Plans to extend the line from Mill Hall to Salona, 3 miles (5 km) miles south of Mill Hall, and to Avis 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Lock Haven, were never carried out, and the line remained unconnected to other trolley lines. The system, always financially marginal, declined after World War I. Losing business to automobiles and buses, it ceased operations around 1930.[26]
The state of Pennsylvania acquired Central State Normal School in 1915 and renamed it Lock Haven State Teachers College in 1927. Between 1942 and 1970, the student population grew from 146 to more than 2,300; the number of teaching faculty rose from 25 to 170, and the college carried out a large building program. The school's name was changed to Lock Haven State College in 1960, and its emphasis shifted to include the humanities, fine arts, mathematics, and social sciences, as well as teacher education. Becoming Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania in 1983, it opened a branch campus in Clearfield, 48 miles (77 km) west of Lock Haven, in 1989.[25]
An 8-acre (3.2 ha) industrial area in Castanea Township adjacent to Lock Haven was placed on the National Priorities List of uncontrolled hazardous waste sites (commonly referred to as Superfund sites) in 1982. Drake Chemical, which went bankrupt in 1981, made ingredients for pesticides and other compounds at the site from the 1960s to 1981. Starting in 1982, the United States Environmental Protection Agency began a clean-up of contaminated containers, buildings, and soils at the site and by the late 1990s had replaced the soils. Equipment to treat contaminated groundwater at the site was installed in 2000 and continues to operate.[28]
Floods
Pennsylvania's streams have frequently flooded. According to William H. Shank, the Indians of Pennsylvania warned white settlers that great floods occurred on the Delaware and Susquehanna rivers every 14 years. Shank tested this idea by tabulating the highest floods on record at key points throughout the state over a 200-year period and found that a major flood had occurred, on average, once every 25 years between 1784 and 1972. Big floods recorded at Harrisburg, on the main stem of the Susquehanna about 120 miles (193 km) miles downstream from Lock Haven, occurred in 1784, 1865, 1889, 1894, 1902, 1936, and 1972. Readings from the Williamsport stream gauge, 24 miles (39 km) miles below Lock Haven on the West Branch of the Susquehanna, showed major flooding between 1889 and 1972 in the same years as the Harrisburg station; in addition, a large flood occurred on the West Branch at Williamsport in 1946.[29] Estimated flood-crest readings between 1847 and 1979—based on data from the National Weather Service flood gauge at Lock Haven—show that flooding likely occurred in the city 19 times in 132 years.[30] The biggest flood occurred on March 18, 1936, when the river crested at 32.3 feet (9.8 m), which was about 11 feet (3.4 m) above the flood stage of 21 feet (6.4 m).[30]
The third biggest flood, cresting at 29.8 feet (9.1 m) in Lock Haven, occurred on June 1, 1889,[30] and coincided with the Johnstown Flood. The flood demolished Lock Haven's log boom, and millions of feet of stored timber were swept away.[31] The flood damaged the canals, which were subsequently abandoned, and destroyed the last of the canal boats based in the city.[24]
Federal, state, and local governments began construction in 1992 of barriers to protect the city. The project included a levee of 36,000 feet (10,973 m) and a flood wall of 1,000 feet (305 m) along the Susquehanna River and Bald Eagle Creek, closure structures, retention basins, a pumping station, and some relocation of roads and buildings. Completed in 1995, the levee protected the city from high water in the year of the Blizzard of 1996,[34] and again 2004, when rainfall from the remnants of Hurricane Ivan threatened the city.[33]
Geography and climate
Lock Haven is the county seat of Clinton County.[35] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.7 square miles (7.0 km2), 2.5 square miles (6.5 km2) of which is land. About 0.2 square miles (0.5 km2), 6 percent, is water.[36]
The city and nearby smaller communities—Castanea, Dunnstown, Flemington, and Mill Hall—are mainly at valley level in the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians, a mountain belt characterized by long even valleys running between long continuous ridges. Bald Eagle Mountain, one of these ridges, runs parallel to Bald Eagle Creek on the south side of the city.[27] Upstream of the confluence with Bald Eagle Creek, the West Branch Susquehanna River drains part of the Allegheny Plateau, a region of dissected highlands generally north of the city.[38][39] The geologic formations in the southeastern part of the city are mostly limestone, while those to the north and west consist mostly of siltstone and shale. Large parts of the city are flat, but slopes rise to the west, and very steep slopes are found along the river, on the university campus, and along Pennsylvania Route 120 as it approaches U.S. Route 220.[27]
Under the Köppen climate classification, Lock Haven is in zone Dfa meaning a humid continental climate with hot or very warm summers.[40] The average temperature in Lock Haven in January is 25 °F (−4 °C), and in July it is 72 °F (22 °C). The highest recorded temperature for Lock Haven was 104 °F (40 °C) in 1988, and the lowest recorded temperature was −19 °F (−28 °C) in 1982. The average wettest month is June.[41] Between 1926 and 1977 the mean annual precipitation was 38.8 inches (990 mm), and the number of days each year with precipitation of 0.1 inches (2.5 mm) or more was 77.[42] Annual snowfall amounts between 1888 and 1996 varied from 0 in several years to 64.5 inches (164 cm) in 1942. The maximum recorded snowfall in a single month was 38.4 inches (98 cm) in April 1894.[42]
Climate data for Lock Haven, Pennsylvania | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high °F (°C) | 67 (19) |
71 (22) |
87 (31) |
92 (33) |
95 (35) |
98 (37) |
104 (40) |
100 (38) |
100 (38) |
91 (33) |
82 (28) |
72 (22) |
104 (40) |
Average high °F (°C) | 34 (1) |
38 (3) |
49 (9) |
61 (16) |
72 (22) |
80 (27) |
84 (29) |
82 (28) |
75 (24) |
64 (18) |
51 (11) |
39 (4) |
60.8 (16) |
Average low °F (°C) | 16 (−9) |
17 (−8) |
25 (−4) |
35 (2) |
45 (7) |
54 (12) |
60 (16) |
58 (14) |
51 (11) |
38 (3) |
30 (−1) |
22 (−6) |
37.6 (3.1) |
Record low °F (°C) | −19 (−28) |
−6 (−21) |
−2 (−19) |
12 (−11) |
27 (−3) |
34 (1) |
43 (6) |
34 (1) |
30 (−1) |
21 (−6) |
12 (−11) |
−9 (−23) |
−19 (−28) |
Precipitation inches (mm) | 2.5 (64) |
2.3 (58) |
3.1 (79) |
3.3 (84) |
3.7 (94) |
4.8 (122) |
4.2 (107) |
4 (100) |
3.9 (99) |
3.1 (79) |
3.5 (89) |
2.7 (69) |
41.1 (1,044) |
Source: [41] |
Demographics
Historical population | |||
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Census | Pop. | %± | |
1850 | 830 | ||
1860 | 3,349 | 303.5% | |
1870 | 6,986 | 108.6% | |
1880 | 5,845 | −16.3% | |
1890 | 7,358 | 25.9% | |
1900 | 7,210 | −2.0% | |
1910 | 7,772 | 7.8% | |
1920 | 8,557 | 10.1% | |
1930 | 9,668 | 13.0% | |
1940 | 10,810 | 11.8% | |
1950 | 11,381 | 5.3% | |
1960 | 11,748 | 3.2% | |
1970 | 11,427 | −2.7% | |
1980 | 9,617 | −15.8% | |
1990 | 9,230 | −4.0% | |
2000 | 9,149 | −0.9% | |
2010 | 9,772 | 6.8% | |
Est. 2012 | 9,797 | 0.3% | |
Sources:[43][44][45] |
As of the census of 2010, there were 9,772 people, who comprised 3,044 households spread across 3,624 housing units in the city. The average household size was 2.14. Between 2005 and 2009, multi-unit structures made up 53.5% of the housing-unit total. During those same years, the rate of home ownership was 34.0%, and the median value of owner-occupied units was $91,600.[4][46]
The population density was 3,915.1 people per square mile (1,505.8 per km2). The reported racial makeup of the city was 92.8% White, 4.2% African-American, 0.1% Native American, 1.0% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, and 1.3% from two or more races. People of Hispanic or Latino origin accounted for 1.9% of the residents. Between 2005 and 2009, 2.4% of the city's residents were foreign-born, and 3.9% of the population over the age of 5 spoke a language other than English at home.[4]
The city's population included 15.7% under the age of 18 and 11.6% who were 65 years of age or older.[4] Females accounted for 53.9% of the total.[4] Students at the university comprised about a third of the city's population.[27]
Of the people who were older than 25, 82.7% had graduated from high school, and 24.4% had at least a bachelor's degree. In 2007, 640 businesses operated in Lock Haven. The mean travel time to work for employees who were at least 16 years old was 18.2 minutes.[4]
The median income for a household in the city was $27,055. The per capita income for the city was $14,193. About 30.6% of Lock Haven's population lived below the poverty line between 2005 and 2009.[4]
Economy
Lock Haven's economy, from the city's founding in 1833 until the end of the 19th century, depended heavily on natural resources, particularly timber, and on cheap transportation to eastern markets.[27] Loggers used the Susquehanna River and Bald Eagle Creek to float timber to sawmills in Lock Haven and nearby towns. The West Branch Canal, reaching the city in 1834, connected to large markets downstream, and shorter canals along Bald Eagle Creek added other connections.[19] In 1859, the first railroad arrived in Lock Haven, spurring trade and economic growth.[27]
By 1900, the lumber industry had declined, and the city's economic base rested on other industries, including a furniture factory, a paper mill, a fire brick plant, and a silk mill. In 1938, the Piper Aircraft Corporation, maker of the Piper Cub and other light aircraft, moved its production plant to Lock Haven. It remained one of the city's biggest employers until the 1980s, when, after major flood damage and losses related to Hurricane Agnes in 1972, it moved to Florida.[27] The loss of Piper Aircraft contributed to an unemployment rate of more than 20% in Lock Haven in the early 1980s, though the rate had declined to about 9% by 2000. Another large plant, the paper mill that had operated since the 1880s[47] in Castanea Township, closed in 2001.[48] By 2005, 32% of the city's labor force was employed in health care, education, or social services, 16% in manufacturing, 14% in retail trade, 13% in arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation, and food services, and smaller fractions in other sectors. The city's biggest employers, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania and Lock Haven Hospital, are among the seven biggest employers in Clinton County.[27]
Arts, culture, historic sites, and media
The central library for Clinton County is the Annie Halenbake Ross Library in Lock Haven; it has about 130,000 books, subscriptions to periodicals, electronic resources, and other materials.[55] Stevenson Library on the university campus has additional collections.[56]
The Piper Aviation Museum exhibits aircraft and aircraft equipment, documents, photographs, and memorabilia related to Piper Aircraft. An eight-room home, the Heisey House, restored to its mid-19th century appearance, displays Victorian-era collections; it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 and is home to the Clinton County Historical Society.[57] The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission has placed three cast aluminum markers—Clinton County, Fort Reed, and Pennsylvania Canal (West Branch Division)—in Lock Haven to commemorate historic places.[58] The Water Street District, a mix of 19th- and 20th-century architecture near the river, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.[59][60] Memorial Park Site 36Cn164, an archaeological site of prehistoric significance discovered near the airport, was added to the National Register in 1982.[61][62]
The city's media include The Express, a daily newspaper, and The Eagle Eye, the student newspaper at the university.[63] Radio stations WBPZ (AM) and WSQV (FM) broadcast from the city. A television station, Havenscope, and a radio station, WLHU, both managed by students, operate on the university campus.[63]
Parks and recreation
A 25-mile (40 km) trail hike and run, the Bald Eagle Mountain Megatransect, takes place annually near Lock Haven.[65] The local branch of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) offers a wide variety of recreational programs to members, and the Clinton Country Club maintains a private 18-hole golf course in Mill Hall.[66]
Government
Lock Haven has a council-manager form of government. The council, the city's legislative body, consists of six members and a mayor, each serving a four-year term. The council sets policy, and the city manager oversees day-to-day operations. As of 2009, the mayor is Richard P. Villelo, Jr., and the manager is Richard Marcinkevidge.[67]
Lock Haven is the county seat of Clinton County and houses county offices, courts, and the county library. Three elected commissioners serving four-year terms manage the county government. Robert "Pete" Smeltz, chairman; Jeffrey Snyder, vice-chairman, and Joel Long, have terms running through 2015.[68]
Michael K. Hanna, a Democrat, represents the 76th District, which includes Lock Haven, in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. John N. Wozniak, a Democrat, represents Lock Haven as part of the 35th District of the Pennsylvania State Senate.[69]
Education
Infrastructure
The Norfolk Southern Railway mainline from Harrisburg to Buffalo, New York, runs through the center of Lock Haven. On the east side of town, it connects to the Nittany and Bald Eagle Railroad, a short line. Trains serving Lock Haven carry only freight. The City of Lock Haven operates the William T. Piper Memorial Airport, a general aviation facility with a paved runway, runway lighting, paved taxiways, a tie-down area, and hangar spaces. No commercial, charter, or freight services are available at this airport.[27]
Electric service to Lock Haven residents is provided by PPL (formerly known as Pennsylvania Power and Light), the gas division of which provides natural gas to the city. Verizon Communications handles local telephone service; long-distance service is available from several providers. Comcast offers high-speed cable modem connections to the Internet. Several companies can provide Lock Haven residents with dial-up Internet access. One of them, KCnet, has an office in Lock Haven. Comcast also provides cable television.[27]
The City of Lock Haven owns the reservoirs and water distribution system for Wayne Township, Castanea Township, and the city. Water is treated at the Central Clinton County Water Filtration Authority Plant in Wayne Township before distribution. The city also provides water to the Suburban Lock Haven Water Authority, which distributes it to surrounding communities. Lock Haven operates a sewage treatment plant for waste water, industrial waste, and trucked sewage from the city and eight upstream municipalities: Bald Eagle Township, Castanea, Flemington, Lamar, Mill Hall, Porter Township, Woodward Township, and Walker Township in Centre County. Storm water runoff from within the city is transported by city-owned storm sewers. Curbside pickup of household garbage is provided by a variety of local haulers licensed by the city; recyclables are picked up once every two weeks. The Clinton County Solid Waste Authority owns and operates the Wayne Township Landfill, which serves Lock Haven.[27]
Notable people
Brittani Kline, winner of America's Next Top Model (cycle 16), is pursuing degrees in English and Spanish at Lock Haven University.[70] Alexander McDonald, a U.S. Senator for Arkansas was born near Lock Haven in 1832.[71] Artist John French Sloan was born in Lock Haven in 1871,[72] and cartoonist Alison Bechdel, author of Dykes to Watch Out For and Fun Home, was born in Lock Haven in 1960.[73] Richard Lipez, author of the Donald Strachey mysteries, was born in Lock Haven in 1938.[74] Other notable residents have included diplomat and Dartmouth College president John Sloan Dickey[75] and federal judge Kermit Lipez of the U.S. Federal First District Court of Appeals.[76]
See also
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