How to Develop an Historic Context - National Park Service

A BRIEF HISTORY OF BLAIR COUNTY. Sylva Emerson. One hundred years before the chartering of Blair County, the territory now comprising the area was primeval forest. It is doubtful if any portion of the county had been cleared. It was densely covered with a great variety of trees—oak, pine, chestnut, hemlock, hickory and walnut. ................
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