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4 unusual facts about Tioga County


Cornerstone Community Church

Cornerstone is part of a network called Zion Fellowship, under the leadership of Dr. Brian Bailey, based in Waverly, New York.

Elishama Tozer

Elishama Tozer (July 3, 1741 Lyme, New London County, Connecticut — 1790 Waverly, then in Montgomery County, now in Tioga County, New York) was an American politician from New York.

Esther Hobart Morris

Esther Hobart Morris (August 8, 1814 – April 3, 1902), a Tioga County, New York native, distinguished herself as the first female Justice of the Peace in the United States.

Nicetown-Tioga, Philadelphia

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.


Gabriel T. Harrower

Gabriel T. Harrower (September 25, 1816 Guilford, Chenango County, New York – August 15, 1895 Lawrenceville, Tioga County, Pennsylvania) was an American politician from New York.


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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.

Sallie Updyke Mundy

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