. The Pennsylvania railroad : its origin, construction, condition, and connections ; embracing historical, descriptive, and statistical notices of cities, towns, villages, stations, industries, and objects of interest on its various lines in Pennsylvania and New Jersey . , and was not fully organized,with separate jurisdiction, until the i6th ofMarch, 1819, when the seat of justice waspermanently fixed at Warren. Owing prin-cipally to troubles about land titles, growingout of the transactions of the Holland LandCompany,*—an organization owning or * During the Revolutionary war a loan of severa
. The Pennsylvania railroad : its origin, construction, condition, and connections ; embracing historical, descriptive, and statistical notices of cities, towns, villages, stations, industries, and objects of interest on its various lines in Pennsylvania and New Jersey . , and was not fully organized,with separate jurisdiction, until the i6th ofMarch, 1819, when the seat of justice waspermanently fixed at Warren. Owing prin-cipally to troubles about land titles, growingout of the transactions of the Holland LandCompany,*—an organization owning or * During the Revolutionary war a loan of several millions ofdollars was obtained by the colonial government from individu-als in Holland. After the war this debt was liquidated, in part,at least, by the transfer to the holders of the loan of vast tractsof land in the northern part of Pennsylvania and the westernportion of New York, and thus was created the Holland LandCompany, in the direct management of which many distin-guished gentlemen, both native and foreign, were at differenttimes engaged. The transactions of the company were con-ducted with fairness,—the difficulties originating where theirlands lay being more the result of conflicting claims thanany fault of the company or its agents. WARREN. 239. ■ •K*^- claiming most of tlie land within its limits,—and other causes, the increase of populationwas slow, and in 1820 it contained less thantwo thousand inhabitants. Since 1830 itsgrowth has been more than usually rapid,and its progress has increased with everydecade, until at present it may justly beranked among the most progressive countiesin the Commonwealth. The surface of Warren county is undula-ting, ajiproaching to ruggedness along thelarger streams intersecting it. Most of itsterritory is susceptible of cultivation, andportions are quite fertile and highly im-proved. The Allegheny river—which flowsthrough the county for fifty miles, theConewango river, the Brokenstraw, Tionestaand Tidioute creeks, wi
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