Country United States County Warren Time zone EST (UTC-4) | State Pennsylvania Settled 1827 Area code(s) 814 | |
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Corydon Township is a defunct township in Warren County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The township was merged in 1964 into Mead Township.
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History
Warren County was formed on March 12, 1800 out of Allegheny County, with the original township of Brokenstraw being formed in that October from everything in the county west of the Allegheny River and Conewango Creek; Conewango Township was formed in March 1808 and consisted of the unincorporated eastern half of Warren County. On March 26, 1846, a portion of Corydon Township in McKean County was set off for Warren County.
Philip Tome, a native of Dauphin County, was the first settler in Corydon in 1827 and for many years was interpreter for Seneca chiefs Cornplanter and Governor Blacksnake. The Buffalo, New York, and Philadelphia Railroad opened in 1882 and brought growth to the community, bringing in stores, a hotel, a stave-mill, a pulp company, a spoke factory, a handle factory, a saw mill, a shingle mill, and various other industries.
Construction of the Kinzua Dam caused the resulting Allegheny Reservoir to submerge the majority of the communities in Corydon Township. The township was merged into Mead Township in 1964.
Geography
Corydon Township was located on a strip of land in the extreme northeastern corner of Warren County, and was bounded Cattaraugus County, New York on the north; McKean County on the east and south; and the Allegheny River on the west.