Hunters are hitting the woods and camps like Greenwood Camp near Curwensville and Rockton. The Greenwood Fields Monument near the camp gives great history of the area. This stone was placed on this site by the Curwensville-Pike Township Historical Society in 1985. It is located near the road in front of the Greenwood Camp in Pike Township approximately one mile off Route 153 on Township Road 488. The monuments inscription reads: John Nicholson of Philadelphia purchased this 100 acres of white pine forest from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on December 31, 1794. Hartsock, Irwin, McDowell, Neeper, and Patton families owned and sold the land until Henry Bloom purchased the tract June 13, 1865. The family developed a farm and built a home and barns that stood near the present water dam. The wife, Elizabeth, is buried beside this marker. White posts mark the grave of an infant Williams boy buried near the road in the 1800s. Stone from the Bloom farm fences was used to build the private Greenwood Hunting Camp from 1918-1921. The U.S. Government operated a lighted airport, weather station, and 90-foot beacon light as part of the Green Airway mail route from New York to Chicago during the 1920s and 1930s. The weather station closed in 1947. Wiley Post, famed World War I pilot, landed his plane here shortly before he and humorist, Will Rogers, died in a 1935 plane crash in Alaska. Herds of white-tailed deer now roam among the wild huckleberry bushes of their former farm and airport.”
Posted on: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 03:29:40 +0000
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