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"When Centre County was erected in 1800 the town of Milesburg was vying with Bellefonte to become the county seat and the apathy that was born between the towns then struggling for the honor of being the seat of justice, has existed in one manner or another ever since. It is not so very long ago that venturesome Bellefonte boys invariably met with a good pounding when they visited Milesburg and it is needless to say that the youngsters from Milesburg carried home many a black eye, the result of contact with Bellefonte fists. This nagging spirit was not confided to the youth alone. The continual fighting between the residents of the places had become almost traditional, although we are glad to say the best of feeling exists at the present day. Milesburg claimed to be at the head of navigation on the Bald Eagle creek, but this was successfully counteracted when the Bellefonte boomers piled a lot of second hand furniture on an old flat boat and dragged it up Spring Creek, to where Lamb Street crosses Logan's Branch in Bellefonte, with a team of mules. The old stove that formed part of the cargo of that boat was in 1895 in the possession of S. A. McQuiston, of West High street. They immediately sent a courier to Lancaster to announce that Bellefonte was the true head of navigation, since the first freight boat of the season had reached Bellefonte but a few days before. The act was passed accordingly and Bellefonte became the capital of the new county."
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