. Genealogical gleanings of Siggins, and other Pennsylvania families; a volume of history, biography and colonial, revolutionary, civil and other war records including names of many other Warren County pioneers. and Penn. Six miles below Franklin, Pennsylvania, on the East sideof the Allegheny River stands the Indian God Rock keep-ing guard over the secrets of the Red man, as enacted therewhen they were the sole possessors of the soil and mon-archs of all they beheld. It stands near the shore and isfully twenty feet in length; its upper end rests on the bankbut its huge bulk stands out in bold
. Genealogical gleanings of Siggins, and other Pennsylvania families; a volume of history, biography and colonial, revolutionary, civil and other war records including names of many other Warren County pioneers. and Penn. Six miles below Franklin, Pennsylvania, on the East sideof the Allegheny River stands the Indian God Rock keep-ing guard over the secrets of the Red man, as enacted therewhen they were the sole possessors of the soil and mon-archs of all they beheld. It stands near the shore and isfully twenty feet in length; its upper end rests on the bankbut its huge bulk stands out in bold relief; its upper sideis completely covered with Indian hieroglyphics and sym-bols, such as turtles, snakes and other animals, arrows,representations of the sun, etc., etc. It was the supersti-tious belief of the early Indian inhabitants that any onewho could walk its length unaided would live a hundredyears. Cornplanter it was said performed this feat althoughit would seem impossible of accomplishment so nearly per-pendicular does it stand; for reward he claimed his fullquota of years which nature generously granted with someeight or ten to spare. The progress of the twentieth century is playing havoc. Other Families 19 with the old land marks of Warren County. One of these,the Cornplanter Hotel, was built by Dr. William A. Irvineon the flat near the town of Irvineton. It was built ofnative slate stone; was massive in appearance and far sur-passed the other buildings of the neighborhood. It is rap-idly becoming demolished and will soon exist only in mem-ory. It stood on the East side of the road near the Riverand was built about 1843. A man by the name of Foremankept the hotel for many years. Few names are more distinguished in the frontier his-tory of Pennsylvania than that of Cornplanter. His Indianname was Ga-nio-di-euh, or Handsome Lake. He was bornat Conewangus on the Genessee River: being a half breed,the son of a white man, named John OBail, a trader fromthe Mohawk Val
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