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Earleysburg
History of Centre and Clinton Counties, John B Linn, 1883, page 411
"Earleysburg was laid out by William Earley, Esq., in 1795 or 1796, and was called indifferently Williamsburg and Earleystown. It never amounted to more than a hamlet on the old Sunbury and Huntingdon road, which ran along south of the Manor. Earley was a justice of the peace, and not being familiar with the form, on one occasion declared the parties "in the presence of God and Judge Potter" man and wife. A noted hotel-keeper of Earleysburg was Walter Longwell, who came from Maryland and kept there as early as 1818. His brother Lewis was a school-teacher in the valley. Dr. Wilson's old abandoned house and one house on the opposite side of the road mark the site of this hamlet."
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