ANCIENT HISTORY OF VENANGO COUNTY.
SUDDEN and unexpected changes are characteristic of the age in which we live. Progress and development seem remarkably animated and energetic during this latter half of the nineteenth century. The sands seem to run rapidly through the glass, as we approach the grand climacteric in the world's history. The Almighty God appears to be opening his great treasure house to provide for the grand and important changes, that in his wise and inscrutable Providence, he is working among us here.
Venango county, Pennsylvania, has suddenly attained to an interest, unsurpassed by any other region of the United States. From being one of the most unproductive and obscure, it has become the first in interest, and wealth and influence among its sister counties, in all the broad range from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Some facts and brief notes, therefore, will be of interest in