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Boggs Township, created in 1814 out of part of Spring Township, was named for Andrew Boggs, the first white settler in what is now Centre County. He lived near present-day Milesburg, along Bald Eagle Creek at its junction with Spring Creek. The township was the location of two large early ironmaking operations: Milesburg Iron Works, built in 1795 by Samuel and Joseph Miles and Joseph Green; and the Eagle Iron Works, started as a forge in 1810 by Roland Curtin. Iron products were at first precariously floated on arks down the Bald Eagle Creek to the West Branch of the Susquehanna River, and later shipped by canal via the Bald Eagle and Spring Creek Navigation Co., providing a safer and cheaper means of transporting iron to Baltimore and other eastern markets.

Information and text courtesy of The Centre County Historical Society
www.centrecountyhistory.org/

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