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Cherrytree, Indiana County, PA

 

1923 - 1924 Cherrytree High School Class  (Elaine Bartlebaugh Schenk)

1950 Class of Cherry Tree   Elaine Bartlebaugh Schenk

Cherry Tree Monument   E Farrell

View of Cherry Tree with Rosie Dunlap      E Farrell

 

Here is located a monument marking a part of the boundary line between the Indians and the whites set down in the Treaty of Fort Stanwix of 1768.  The line of the purchase from the Indians at Fort Stanwix in that year ran up the West Branch of the Susquehanna to the fork nearest Kittanning and thence was a straight line to Kittanning.   The beginning of the straight line was marked by a cherry tree at a spot then known as Canoe Place.  The modern town was named for the tree.  The monument has been erected approximately on the site of the tree, and the counties of Clearfield, Indiana and Cambria meet near the point.

 

(Carol Powell)

 

Abner Bartlebaugh "The Spirit"

(Debbie Huey Passmore)

 

 

Photos of Cherry Tree Monument

(Elaine Schenk)

(Elaine Schenk)

(Elaine Schenk)

 

 

 

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