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50-658: The line runs generally west between Muncy (in Lycoming County) and Avis (in Clinton County). Other communities served include Montoursville , Williamsport (and its western neighborhood of Newberry), the unincorporated village of Linden (in Woodward Township ) and Jersey Shore (all in Lycoming County). 37 miles (60 km) of track are in Lycoming County and 1-mile (1.6 km)

100-667: A Major General in the United States Army . The McCarty brothers divided up the former Brady land, with William taking the portion between what is now West Water Street and Muncy Creek , and Benjamin that portion between West Water Street and the southern boundary. Main Street now represents what was then the boundary between the Brady farm and Isaac Walton's. In 1797, ten years after coming to Muncy, Benjamin McCarty conceived

150-461: A Quaker citizen of Muncy, was one of the most prominent abolitionists in Lycoming County. Hawley, a tanner by trade, was, like most Quakers, a strong supporter of the abolition of slavery. Hawley invited a now unknown speaker to come to Muncy to speak against slavery. This speaker arrived in April 1842. His arrival and resultant speech set off a tremendous riot that led to the near destruction of

200-427: A 4-foot-deep (1.2 m) trench around it and emplaced upright logs in that trench side by side all the way around. He filled the trench with dirt and packed the dirt against the logs to hold the log wall solidly in place. This log wall ran about twelve feet high from the ground. He then held this wall in place upright by pinning smaller logs across its top, to keep the wall face steady and solid. The John Brady homestead

250-525: A Moravian with an Indian mother and European father. They buried his body and quickly returned to warn their brethren in Schoenbrunn as they thought that the others at Gnadenhutten met the same fate. The Moravian Christian Indians at Schoenbrunn fled to Sandusky before the American militiamen could reach Schoenbrunn, where they planned to commit another massacre. In 1798, David Zeisberger led many of

300-885: A group of Lenape (also known as Delaware ), an Indigenous people in the United States , that primarily speak Munsee and have converted to Christianity, following the teachings of Moravian missionaries. The Christian Munsee are also known as the Moravian Munsee or the Moravian Indians , the Moravian Christian Indians or, in context, simply the Christian Indians . As the Moravian Church transferred some of their missions to other Christian denominations, such as

350-419: A group of ninety-six of Zeisberger's Christian Munsee harvesting corn, and rounded them up in the eastern Ohio village of Gnadenhütten . The Munsee protested their innocence of the incidents and explained their Christian convictions and practice of non-combatant and nonresistance . But the militia took a vote and decided to kill all of these "Indians", including the women and children. Those killed are known as

400-479: A local schoolhouse and the controversial pardoning of the rioters by Pennsylvania Governor David R. Porter . The anti-slavery speaker gave his speech at a one-room school in Muncy in April 1842. During the course of the speech, eighteen men gathered outside the schoolhouse. They began throwing rocks and other debris at the school, breaking all of the windows. Enos Hawley and the guest speaker were both injured in

450-1038: A move to the American West. In 1837, some of the Munsee from Fairfield journeyed to Wisconsin to join another Christian band of Indians, the Stockbridge Indians, a combination of the last remnants of the Mohican and Wappinger peoples of the east bank of the Hudson River in New York, whence the two tribes became known collectively as the Stockbridge-Munsee . They are now the Stockbridge-Munsee Community in Shawano County, Wisconsin . However, most of

500-731: A new Fairfield across the Thames River to the south, which is now known as Moraviantown. In 1903, the Moravian Christians transferred the Munsee mission in Moraviantown to Methodist Christians , a denomination that eventually joined the United Church of Canada . Today many Christian Munsee still belong to this United Protestant denomination. By the 1830s, a faction of the Christian Munsee favored

550-593: A tribe of Lenape , named Monseys . One of the common misconceptions about United States history prior to the Civil War is that all the citizens of the northern states were against slavery . In fact many of the "Yankees", were all for slavery, especially in states closer to the Confederacy like Pennsylvania, Ohio and Delaware . There were more than a few abolitionists in Pennsylvania, and Enos Hawley,

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600-870: Is in Clinton County. The rail line runs north and then west along the left bank of the West Branch Susquehanna River , roughly following the routes of Interstate 180 and U.S. Route 220 . The corporate offices are located in Northumberland, Pennsylvania . There are connections to the Norfolk Southern Railway line at Muncy and Linden (as well as an indirect connection to Canadian Pacific Railway service). The Lycoming County Visitors Bureau offers occasional train excursions, departing from Williamsport and going to either Jersey Shore or Muncy and returning. In

650-521: The Marais des Cygnes River near the town of Ottawa . Signing the treaty for the Munsee were Henry Donohoe, Ignatius Caleb, and John Williams. Although the two tribes shared a reservation and were considered one tribe by the United States government in all dealings, they maintained their separate identities in cultural and religious practices. The Moravian church continued to send missionaries to

700-666: The Moravian of the Thames reservation). Present-day Christian Munsee communities include Moravian of the Thames , the Christian Munsee tribe in Kansas, and the Stockbridge–Munsee Community . Starting in the 1740s, the Moravian Church sent Christian missionaries to North American Indian tribes and started settlements, with full tribal support. The ranks of the Christian Munsee included influential Lenape chiefs from

750-691: The Munsee Indians who once lived in the area. The population was 2,442 at the 2020 census . It is part of the Williamsport, Pennsylvania , Metropolitan Statistical Area. Muncy is located on the West Branch Susquehanna River , just south of the confluence of Muncy Creek with the river. Currently the borough president is Bill Scott and the mayor is Jon Ort. About 1787, four brothers Silas, William, Benjamin, and Isaac McCarty, came here from Bucks County . They were of Quaker extraction. William and Benjamin bought 300 acres (120 ha) known as

800-613: The United States Census Bureau , the borough has a total area of 0.8 square miles (2.1 km ), all land. It has a hot-summer humid continental climate ( Dfa ) and average monthly temperatures range from 26.8 °F in January to 72.3 °F in July. [1] The hardiness zone is 6b. As of the 2000 census, there were 2,663 people, 1,142 households, and 749 families residing in the borough. The population density

850-673: The War of 1812 , when American soldiers burned their village to the ground during the Battle of the Thames . The battle is well known historically as a victory for United States General William Henry Harrison , and for the death of the Shawnee chief Tecumseh , an ally of the British, but the destruction of Moraviantown is little more than a footnote. The Munsee fled into the wilderness for safe haven until hostilities had ceased, then returned to build

900-550: The "John Brady farm." John Brady was one of the earliest settlers in the area. He received a land grant which was awarded to the officers who served in the Bouquet Expedition. He chose land west of present-day Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. He built a private stockade on this land in the Spring of 1776, close to present day Muncy, Pennsylvania, which he called "Fort Brady." John Brady's Muncy house was large for its day. He dug

950-657: The Indians during these raids. In this ongoing skirmishing, both sides committed unspeakable atrocities on the other, which drove a long-lasting cycle of revenge for revenge brutalities between the settlers and Indians. It was in the midst of this extreme danger and violence that Major John Brady chose to settle his family, which set the stage for what happened to him and for what so greatly impacted and influenced his family—especially, his sons, Continental Army Captain Samuel Brady of Brady's Leap fame and Hugh Brady , who became

1000-694: The Lycoming Valley Railroad (Initials are LVRR) was formerly part of the Reading Company and New York Central Railroad and was absorbed into Conrail . SEDA-COG JRA was formed in July 1983 to continue to provide rail service to communities whose rail lines Conrail had decided to abandon. In 1996 the JRA took over the line when Conrail abandoned it, and the Lycoming Valley Railroad was born as its fifth railroad. Vast stands of timber and nearby coal deposits brought three early railroads to

1050-934: The Methodists, Christian Munsee today belong to the Moravian Church, Methodist Church , United Church of Canada , among other Christian denominations. The Christian Munsee tribe has produced several people who have become notable figures in Christianity and the Delaware Nation as a whole, such as Gelelemend (a Lenape chief), John Henry Kilbuck (a Moravian Christian missionary to the Native peoples in Alaska), Papunhank (a Moravian Lenape diplomat and preacher), Glikhikan (Munsee chief, Moravian elder, and Christian martyr), and Washington Jacobs (a chief of

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1100-905: The Moravian Christian Indian Martyrs. While the American militiamen murdered the Moravian Christian Indians in Gnadenhutten, a messenger sent by the Moravian missionaries in Sandusky on March 3 reached Schoenbrunn on March 6 in order to deliver the news that all of them would be moving to Detroit. Two of the Moravian Indians from Schoenbrunn went to tell their brethren in Gnadenhutten but on their journey there, they saw that American soldiers had mangled body of Joseph Schebosh Jr,

1150-511: The Moravian Christian Indians back to Ohio, where they established the Goshen Mission near Schoenbrunn . Zeisberger lived there until his death, after which many of the Moravian Christian Indians moved to Ontario (cf. Delaware Nation at Moraviantown ) and others to Kansas, along with Christian missionaries who continued to live and work among them. The descendants of Jacob and Ester, the surviving children of Israel Welapachtshechen (who

1200-488: The Muncy High School locker room; the shoe has since been bronzed and mounted on a wooden box. Muncy currently leads the series with 28 wins to Montgomery's 18. Hughesville's high school team and Muncy are also rivals. In the first game of the season, September 4, 2010, Muncy kept The Shoe by shutting out Montgomery 52–0. As of December 2017, Muncy still is in possession of The Shoe. The Muncy Historic District

1250-649: The Munsee eventually returned to Canada. The Christian Munsee in southern Ontario remain today as the Moravian of the Thames and the Munsee-Delaware Nation . A small band of Christian Munsee decided to migrate again, this time to Kansas Territory, to join their non-Christian Lenape kinsmen. They settled first in Wyandotte County , then Leavenworth County . A few families settled near Fort Scott in Bourbon County . By 1857, most of

1300-562: The Munsee. Under the Dawes Act , the Chippewa-Christian Indian Reservation, as it was known in the 1859 treaty, was allotted to the individual members and descendants of the tribes in separate 160-acre plots. The people eventually accepted assimilation . In 1900, the final disbursement of federal funds was paid, and all benefits and official recognition as Native Americans were dissolved. A number of

1350-628: The SEDA-CoG Joint Rail Authority, they have been operated by the Lycoming Valley Railroad Company since August 15, 1996. On September 8, 2011 the railroad bridge over Loyalsock Creek was heavily damaged by flooding. Heavy rain from the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee raised the creek "higher than anything we've seen in recorded history", according to a Lycoming County official. According to USGS gauge height recordings upstream at Loyalsockville,

1400-665: The Williamsport area. In December 1854, the Sunbury & Erie RR, a PRR predecessor, built northward through Williamport. The Catawissa, Williamsport & Erie RR, a Reading predecessor, ran its trains to Williamsport over Sunbury & Erie from 1854 until its own line was constructed 1871. The New York Central presence in the Valley dates from 1883, when its Pine Creek RR opened between Wellsboro and Newberry, to haul coal. All these routes were merged into Conrail in 1976. Purchased by

1450-581: The Wolf Clan of the Lenape , occupying the area where present-day New York , Pennsylvania and New Jersey meet. The first recorded European contact occurred in 1524, when Giovanni da Verrazzano sailed into what is now New York Harbor . Like most native peoples of the Atlantic coast, the Munsee suffered from the introduction of European diseases, such as smallpox and influenza , that were endemic among

1500-423: The age of 18 living with them, 52.8% were married couples living together, 8.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 34.4% were non-families. 29.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.33 and the average family size was 2.86. In the borough, the population was spread out, with 23.5% under

1550-463: The age of 18, 7.2% from 18 to 24, 28.3% from 25 to 44, 23.7% from 45 to 64, and 17.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females, there were 90.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 85.9 males. The median income for a household in the borough was $ 33,603, and the median income for a family was $ 38,934. Males had a median income of $ 31,900 versus $ 22,222 for females. The per capita income for

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1600-595: The assault. Upon fleeing the school, the abolitionists were pelted with eggs . The rioters followed Hawley and his guest to Hawley's home at the corner of High and Main Streets. They continued the assault on Hawley's home until after midnight, when the local law enforcement officers were able to quell the riot and arrest the rioters. The rioters were indicted in September and went to trial in October, when thirteen of

1650-642: The borough was $ 17,782. About 8.3% of families and 10.0% of the population were below the poverty line , including 19.0% of those under age 18 and 3.1% of those age 65 or over. The United States Postal Service operates the Muncy Post Office. The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections State Correctional Institution - Muncy is located in Clinton Township , Lycoming County , near Muncy. SCI Muncy has Pennsylvania's death row for women. Christian Munsee The Christian Munsee are

1700-606: The creek crested that day at 70,000 cubic feet per second or 31.5 million gallons per minute. The damage to the bridge was severe enough that the bridge was not able to be saved. While she still stood, one of the middle piers had become dislodged and the rails were bent. The bridge over the Loyalsock Creek was rebuilt and opened in 2014. Muncy, Pennsylvania Muncy is a borough in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania , United States. The name Muncy comes from

1750-490: The eighteen rioters were found guilty as charged. The jury 's deliberation was quite a long process. Abraham Updegraff was a member of the jury who was the driving force that led to the conviction of the rioters. Updegraff, an ardent abolitionist who was a vital member of the Underground Railroad in Lycoming County, was able to convince his peers that the rioters deserved to be punished. The first jury vote

1800-915: The fall these are billed as "Fall Foliage Excursions" and in December there are Polar Express rides with Santa Claus . The system has trackage rights via the Norfolk Southern line. These allow the Lycoming Valley Railroad to connect to the west with the Nittany and Bald Eagle Railroad (at Lock Haven ) and, to the south, with the Union County Industrial Railroad (at Milton ), the North Shore Railroad (at Northumberland ), and Shamokin Valley Railroad (at Sunbury ). The line operated by

1850-465: The frontier, apart from both European settlers and from other native people. The most prominent missionary among the Munsee was David Zeisberger . In 1772, he led his group of Christian Munsee to the Ohio Country , which he hoped would isolate them from the hostilities of the approaching American Revolution . However, in 1782, a force of Pennsylvania militiamen, in search of Indians who had been raiding settlements in western Pennsylvania, happened upon

1900-415: The idea of starting a town, and began laying out lots on what is now Main Street, and sold them to different parties. His example was followed by his brother William, north of Water street, and by Isaac Walton. The town was named Pennsborough in honor of the William Penn . The town grew slowly and was nothing but a village for many years. More than a quarter of a century passed before an act of incorporation

1950-429: The less than flattering nickname of the "Previous Pardonin Porter." Historians believe that Porter pardoned the rioters under political pressure that was rampant, in the years prior to the Civil War, regarding the issue of slavery. Muncy has nearly 2,700 residents. Its high school football team and the Montgomery high school team play annually for The Shoe, a trophy created in 1961 from an old athletic shoe found in

2000-501: The newcomers, but to which they had no acquired immunity. Those who survived were forced inland by encroaching European settlements. By the mid-18th century, one group of Lenape people began to follow the teachings of Moravian missionaries. The Moravians were descended from exiled Protestants from Morava, now Czech Republic, who founded a Protestant denomination from Herrnhut in the German state of Saxony . They sought to protect their converts by creating separate mission villages in

2050-432: The other Lenape (of Kansas) were removed to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). The Christian Munsee, who then numbered less than one hundred, chose to purchase a new reservation in Franklin County from a small band of Ojibwa (Chippewa) that had migrated from Michigan. The Treaty of 1859 officially combined the Swan Creek and Black River Band Chippewa and the Christian Munsee on a reservation of twelve square miles along

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2100-406: The start. The Moravian Christian approach was to preserve Lenape cultural practices while introducing Lenape to the Gospel message with the entirety of the Christian faith. As such, Moravian Christian missionaries developed the orthography for Lenape dialects and David Zeisberger "compiled dictionaries of various Native tongues, translating them into English and German". The Munsee were

2150-422: Was 11 to 1 in favor of acquittal , with Updegraff being the lone dissenter . Updegraff argued that "we have been sworn to try this case according to the law and the evidence presented and that if no contradictory evidence [is] offered by the defendants than we could do nothing more than to convict them." He was able to make his argument in German which was the native tongue of three other jurors. The second vote

2200-460: Was 3,174.3 inhabitants per square mile (1,225.6/km ). There were 1,233 housing units at an average density of 1,469.7 per square mile (567.5/km ). The racial makeup of the borough was 98.46% White , 0.04% African American , 0.08% Native American , 0.23% Asian , 0.30% from other races , and 0.90% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.94% of the population. There were 1,142 households, out of which 28.3% had children under

2250-400: Was 9 to 3 in favor of acquittal. A third vote brought about the conviction of 13 of the 18 men charged in the Muncy Abolition Riot of 1842. This conviction was essentially overturned by Governor David R. Porter when he pardoned the rioters several days later. Governor Porter's statement of pardon said, "It is represented to me by highly respected citizens of Lycoming County, that this prosecution

2300-433: Was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. Muncy is located at 41°12′7″N 76°47′11″W  /  41.20194°N 76.78639°W  / 41.20194; -76.78639 (41.201969, -76.786333). Lycoming County is approximately 130 miles (209 km) northwest of Philadelphia and 165 miles (266 km) east-northeast of Pittsburgh . Muncy is surrounded by Muncy Creek Township . According to

2350-432: Was applied for. Finally, by act approved March 15, 1826, it was incorporated as a borough. On January 19, 1827, with a population of less than 600, the name was changed from Pennsborough to Muncy. This was done because many persons thought it was "too flat and long," and the new name would be more in accordance with the historical associations of the place, and serve to perpetuate the name of the tribe that first dwelt there,

2400-415: Was instituted more with a view to the accomplishment of political ends than to serve the cause of law and order ." Porter's pardon message placed the blame for the riot on the abolitionist speaker. Porter stated that the speech was "notoriously offensive to the minds of those to whom they were addressed and were calculated to bring about a breach of the peace." This pardon led to Governor Porter being given

2450-479: Was martyred in the Gnadenhutten massacre ), make up the majority of the Christian Munsee tribe in Kansas today. After ten more years of strife, most of the Christian Munsee followed Zeisberger to Ontario , Canada, where they established a new home at Fairfield, commonly known as Moraviantown , along the Thames River . There they lived in relative peace for twenty years, supporting themselves with their farming and industry. But they became unwitting victims during

2500-431: Was perilously close to the leading edge of the frontier of that time, the Susquehanna River. The other side of the Susquehanna was fiercely dominated by the Indians. The Indians resisted settler encroachment on their territory by routinely crossing the Susquehanna to raid the settlers. The settlers just as routinely crossed the Susquehanna to pursue the raiding war parties to retaliate and sometimes to rescue captives taken by

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