Chapter 57
Section 57 of a Guide Book of Art, Architecture, and Historic Interests in Pennsylvania, edited by Margareta Archimbeau. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Read by Tatiana Cicilla. Perry County. Formed March 12, 1820, named for Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, lying between the Tuscarora and the Blue Mountains it abounds in beautiful scenery, low hills, rich valleys, and abundant streams. Chief Industry, Agriculture. New Bloomfield County seat settled in 1820. Streets run due east and west, north and south.
Courthouse faces the center square. Colonial with Kubla, brick, built in 1868. Fireproof Annex, built 1892. Soldiers Monument in the square, memorial to soldiers and sailors of Perry County. Among the good church buildings may be noted the Methodist. Architect M.A. Cast Harrisburg. Sherman's Dale was in 1720, an Indian village. At Marysville, a long stone arch bridge on the Pennsylvania Railroad line crosses over the Susquehanna River from Rockville, Dauphin County.
The Marysville Civic Club has done much for the improvement of the town and has beautified the town square and schoolyard. Beyond Duncannon, where an immense traffic in coal and iron is carried on, one goes through the valley of the beautiful Juniata. The scenery along this river, as one crosses ridge after ridge of the Alleghenies, is most picturesque, and the region traversed is full of historical reminisces of the struggles of early Scotch-Irish colonists with the Indians, and of the enterprise of David Brainerd and other missionaries.
At Millerstown, one threads the Tuscarora Gap, where the railway, river, road, and canal squeeze their way through this narrow defile. This lay in the land of the Tuscarora Indians. End of Section 57.
