Upper Pine Bottom State Park
Upper Pine Bottom State Park is a 5-acre Pennsylvania state park in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. The park is in Cummings Township on Pennsylvania Route 44 and is surrounded by the Tiadaghton State Forest. It is on Upper Pine Bottom Run, which gave the park its name and is a tributary of Pine Creek. The earliest recorded inhabitants of the area were the Susquehannocks.
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Upper Pine Bottom State Park is a 5-acre Pennsylvania state park in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. The park is in Cummings Township on Pennsylvania Route 44 and is surrounded by the Tiadaghton State Forest. It is on Upper Pine Bottom Run, which gave the park its name and is a tributary of Pine Creek. The earliest recorded inhabitants of the area were the Susquehannocks, followed by the Iroquois, Lenape, and Shawnee. As of 2020 it is for day use only and its only facilities are a few picnic tables and a parking area. In October 1784, the United States acquired a large tract of land, including what is now Upper Pine Top State Park, from the Second Fort Stanwix Treaty. The French and Indian War led to the migration of many Native Americans westward to the Ohio River basin, including the Shawnee and Algonkian tribes. The valleys of the Pine Creek and its tributaries were used by the tribes as a hunting ground and burial ground to the north of Little Pine State Park on Little Pine Creek, just a few miles from the park’s entrance. The state forest was started in 1898 and the park was formed from it by 1923 as a Class B public camp. The Civilian Conservation Corps had a camp on the run and improved the park in the 1930s, but it was not transferred to the Bureau of State Parks until 1962. In addition to picnics, its chief use is as a Parking area for local hunters, anglers, hikers, cross-country skiers, snowmobilers, and all-terrain vehicle riders.
Upper PineBottom Run is state-approved and stocked for trout fishing in season. It was the site of a furnace for pig iron in 1814, the first sawmill was built on it in 1815, and in 1825 an earlier bridle path across its headwaters became a turnpike. The first settlers were Paleo-Indian nomadic hunters known from their stone tools. The hunter-gatherers of the Archaic period, which lasted locally from 7000 to 1000 BC, used a greater variety of more sophisticated stone artifacts. The Woodland period marked the gradual transition to semi-permanent villages and horticulture, between 1000 BC and 1500 AD. The Iroquoi 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 BranchSusquehanna River in the south. Their numbers were greatly reduced by disease and warfare with the Five Nations of the Iroqois, and by 1675 they had died out, moved away, or been assimilated into other tribes. After this, the lands of the West branches of the river valley were under the nominal control of the Iroquois. They lived in long houses, and had a strong confederacy which gave them power beyond their numbers.
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