Walker: mills, forges and the iron trade

From the county histories, on Walker township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1913, including the spelling of the day and the errors the scanner made. It has not been rewritten, summarised or added to.

If the location of the squatters in Walker township is correct they were doubtless the first white men who attempted to establish themselves in that section. Patterson has generally been credited with being the first settler, but in view of the above facts it is quite probable that the honor belongs to Frederick Star and his associates. Patterson was one of the most prominent of the early settlers. In he built the first grist-mill and saw-mill east of the Juniata. During the latter years of the French and Indian war his house was used as base of supplies, and at one time, in the fall of 1756, a large quantity of flour was stored there for the use of troops on the frontier. In the expulsion of the trespassers Andrew Lycon resisted arrest, for which his cabin was burned and he was taken to Carlisle and placed in jail.John W. Jordan, ed., History of the Juniata Valley and Its People (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing, 1913) · character 433,518 of the scanned text

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