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Excerpt from Centennial Discourse: A Sketch of the History of Venango County, Pennsylvania Venango county. Although organized at a later period than many of her sisters, has yet a history that is full of thrilling interest. In many of its features it borders on the romantic. The beginning of the century that is just closing found this region covered with its primeval forest. The Indian had his home here, and what little of civilization had been seen in earlier days under the French rule had vanished. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.