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6 unusual facts about Tioga


Charles V. Stuart

Stuart was born in Nippenose Township, Pennsylvania, and worked on his father's farm until the age of 14, when he was enrolled at Owego Academy in what is now Tioga, New York, where he studied under the educational reformer Charles Rittenhouse Coburn.

Nicetown-Tioga, Philadelphia

Trump Entertainment Resorts in recent years planned to build a casino on a former Budd Company site on Hunting Park Avenue between Henry Avenue and Fox Street.

Perhaps it was inherited from the Lenape Indians of the area (if in fact they used a word tioga that was either a cognate to, or a borrowing of, the Iroquois word), or perhaps it began as the name of the country estate of a Euro-American gentleman farmer inspired by the Tioga placenames of Tioga County, Pennsylvania and Tioga County, New York.

Tioga, New York

The historic Iroquoian-speaking tribes developed as the Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee or the Iroquois Confederacy, since about the 15th century.

Tioga, North Dakota

Tioga was founded in 1902 and named by settlers from Tioga, New York.

Tioga, Texas

Gene Autry lived in Tioga as a child; one of the main streets through the town is named for him.


Cowanesque

Cowanesque River, a tributary of the Tioga River in Pennsylvania and New York

Ghost of Queen Esther

A military force of two-hundred men under the command of Colonel Thomas Hartley was created and started up the Susquehanna River to Tioga Point, finally reaching the hilly area of Queen Esther.

Indigo Wireless

In 2000, after AT&T had left the Cellular One group and Southwestern Bell and Bell South had left in order to become Cingular Wireless, Indigo finally changed its name from Cellular One of Tioga to Indigo Wireless.

John Muir College

The 8- and 11-story twin residence halls Tenaya and Tioga along with the 5- and 9-story Tuolumne and Tamarack apartment buildings stand as a testament to the nature-conserving policies of Muir as well as examples of the prevalent architectural style of the 1960s.

KLAA

KLAA-FM, a radio station (103.5 FM) licensed to Tioga, Louisiana, United States

Mt. Pisgah State Park

Stephen Foster Lake, named for the famed composer and former resident of Tioga County was formed by damming Mill Creek in 1977.

Raphael Pumpelly

After graduating, Pumpelly moved to Tioga Point, now Athens, in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, where he was soon appointed a Justice of the Peace, and became land agent for the Hon. Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Maryland.

RV Tioga

Currently Tioga is heavily involved in the tagging and studying of the endangered Right whales and the maintenance of the Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory.

Sallie Updyke Mundy

She is part-owner of a small cattle farm, raising Scottish Highland cattle, in Tioga County.

Sullivan Expedition

In September 1778, revenge for the Wyoming defeat was taken by American Colonel Thomas Hartley who, with 200 soldiers, burned nine to twelve Seneca, Delaware and Mingo villages along the Susquehanna River in northeast Pennsylvania, including Tioga and Chemung.

Tioga Downs

Artists that appeared at Tioga Downs have included Gretchen Wilson, Vanilla Ice, Tony Orlando, and Sister Sledge.

Tioga Hotel

The Tioga Hotel was a grand hotel which hosted prominent guests, including Eleanor Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Mary Pickford, and various foreign royalty.


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