Leonard Harrison State Park

Leonard Harrison State Park is a 585-acre Pennsylvania state park in Tioga County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is on the east rim of the Pine Creek Gorge, also known as the Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania, which is 800 feet deep and nearly 4,000 feet across here. The park is named for Leonard Harrison, a Wellsboro lumberman who cut the timber there, then established the park, which he donated to the state in 1922.

About Leonard Harrison State Park in brief

Leonard Harrison State Park is a 585-acre Pennsylvania state park in Tioga County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is on the east rim of the Pine Creek Gorge, also known as the Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania, which is 800 feet deep and nearly 4,000 feet across here. The park is named for Leonard Harrison, a Wellsboro lumberman who cut the timber there, then established the park, which he donated to the state in 1922. Pine Creek flows through the park and has carved the gorge through five major rock formations from the Devonian and Carboniferous periods. The gorge is home to many species of plants and animals, some of which have been reintroduced to the area. Since 1996, the 63. 4-mile Pine Creek Rail Trail has followed the creek through the state park. The Pine Creek gorge was named a National Natural Landmark in 1968 and is also protected as a Pennsylvania State Natural Area and Important Bird Area, while Pine Creek is a Pennsylvania Scenic and Wild River. Since a successful publicity campaign in 1936, the park has been a popular tourist destination and attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors each year. Humans have lived in what is now Pennsylvania since at least 10,000 BC. The first settlers were Paleo-Indian nomadic hunters known from their stone tools. The earliest recorded inhabitants of the park were the Iroquoian-speaking Susquehannocks, who lived in stockaded villages of large long houses, and sometimes inhabited the mountains surrounding the gorge.

The Seneca tribe believed that Pine Creek was sacred land and never established a permanent settlement there and had seasonal hunting camps just north of park. To fill the void left by the demise of the Susquesonocks, the British acquired the West Purchase from the British in the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix. The French and Indian War led to the migration of many Native Americans westward to the Ohio River basin, including the Shawnee and Lenape. On November 5, 1768, the French and French acquired the New Purchase from New Purchase for $1,000,000. The Treaty established the border along this line, including what now is now Leonard Harrison Park along the West Branch SusqueHanna River drainage basin. It was unclear whether this treaty was established by this treaty or whether it was as a result of the British acquisition of the West purchase from the French in 1768. After this, the lands of the west branch of the river valley were under the nominal control of the New York-based Iroquois. They were a matriarchal society that lived inStockaded villages, and often inhabited the mountain peaks surrounding the park. By 1675 they had died out, moved away, or been assimilated into other tribes, or were assimilated by other tribes. They and other tribes used the Pine creek Path through the gorge, traveling between a path on the Genesee River in modern New York in the north, and the Great Shamokin Path along the west Branch Susqueshanna River in the south.

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