THE DALLAS POST, DALLAS, PA, FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1937.
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EXCERPTS FROM
THE HISTORY OF DALLAS
By WILLIAM PENN RYMAN
(Willigm Penn Ryan wrote this history of
Dallas first as a paper for Wyoming Historical
and Geological Society in 1885. It filled such
a long-felt need for a permanent record of the
development of this section that he was asked
to enlarge it. He set upon that task and had
finished it except for a final chapter on the
Civil War when, on July 31, 1889, he died.—
Editor.
Up to the present time, focal historians have
found so much of interest connected with the set-
tlement and growth of Wyoming Valley that they
have neglected to note many important events in
the rise and progress of the country surrounding.
There is, no doubt, a vast deal of interesting
historic material connected with every township in
the present county of Luzerne, which, years ago,
could and should have been recorded and given
permanent place in its annals, but which, from long
neglect is now either lost forever, or so poorly and
inaccurately handed down to us to be comparatively
valueless. In some parts of the country the work
of collecting this material has been too long de-
layed to make it possible now to get anything like
an accurate account of men and events from the
date of the first settlement. The men who know
of their own knowledge, who lived and had ex-
perience in the earliest days, are gone, leaving us
only the children or grandchildren to relate what
was told them by the ancestors. This kind of hear-
say and tradition lets in an element of uncertainty
which should not exist in any historic record.
With this view and purpose of writing down
what I can learn, at this late day, concerning the
“over the mountain” or hill country West of Wyo-
ming Valley, and especially of the present town-
ship and borough of Dallas, I began in the year
1885 to make some effort to collect these materials
and data from every source known to me, from
examination of records, from conversation and cor-
respondence with those whose memory runs farthest
back and is clearest, from monuments, maps, deeds,
etc., and have, in the following pages, recorded
as best I can the result.
I have endeavored to collect abundant proofs
and the best evidence to be had before putting down
any statement herein as fact. For the reasons given
above I have not been able to entirely exclude
hearsay or tradition; but whenever relied upon it
has been fortified by the testimony of more than
one witness on the same point.
The township of Dallas originally embraced all
the territory of Luzerne County northwest of the
present boundary lines of Kingston, Plymouth and
Jackson Townships, extending to the present Sull-
ivan, then Lycoming, county line It included all
of the township of Monroe and parts of Forkston,
North Branch, Northmoreland and Eaton Twn-
ships, in present Wyoming County. All of Lake
and Lehman townships and part of Ross, Union
and Franklin townships in present Luzerne County.
Dallas Township originally joined to Kingston
Township, as it now does, on the line of the South-
easterly side of certified Bedford Township. The
northern portion of present Dallas Township is
drained by Leonard’s Creek, which passes through
the village of Kunkle to Bowman's Creek, and with
that into the Susquehanna River near Tunkhan-
nock. The southern and larger portion of present
Dallas Township, including nearly, if not quite all,
of certified Bedford, is drained by Toby's Creek,
which passes, by an easy grade, through a cut or
gap in the mountains to Wyoming Valley at a
point near the center of greatest population and
activity. This is noted as important because the
first immigrations to a country always follow the
streams. This opening through the mountains made
the country about the head waters of Toby's Creek
very accessible to those living near its outlet. As
soon as the settlements in the valley increased so
that neighbors lived near enough to see each other,
there were some restless souls who felt crowded and
began to seek homes farther back into the woods.
The soil ia the valley was sandy and not very rich.
The trees that grew upon it were scrubby and
small, while the higher lands about Dallas the soil
seemed stronger and was covered with a heavy
forest of very large trees. Some who first settled
in the valley reasoned from this that the soil about
Dallas, which could raise such, very large trees,
must be richer and better for farming purposes
than the soil of the valley, and they sold their
farms in the valley and moved back. Of course
the anthracite coal of the valley was not known
of or considered then.
The difficulties of settling Dallas Township were
very great. It was comparatively an easy thing to
cut a path or road along the banks of Toby's Creek
and find a way to its source, but to settle there
alone, many miles from any clearing, and meet the
wolves, bears and other wild animals, which were
terrible realities in those early days, saying nothing
of the still pending dread of the prowling Indians,
was a very serious undertaking.
When a young boy I heard Mr. Charles Harris,
then an old man, tell some of his early recollections,
which ran back to about the time of the battle and
massacres of Wyoming. He told us of the Indians
who once came into the house where he and his
mother were alone, and demanded food. There
being nothing better they roasted a pumpkin before
the fire and scraped it off and ate as fast as it be-
came soft with cooking. He also told us about his
father’s first settling on the westerly side of Kings-
ton Mountain at what is still known as the “Harris
Settlement” about two miles north of Trucksville.
| He said that his father worked all the first day fell-
ing trees and building a cabin. Night came on be-
fore the cabin could be enclosed. With the dark-
ness came a pack of wolves and, to protect his fam-
ily, Mr. Harris built a fire and sat up all night to
keep it burning. The wolves were dazed and would .
not come near a fire, and when daylight came they
disappeared.
To pass one night under such circumstances re-
quired bravery, but to stay, build a house, clear a
farm and raise a family with such terrors constantly
menacing exhibited a courage that commands our
highest esteem.
(Continued next week)
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