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Scribe Recalls Golden Days” Of ClermontThe Buffalo Times, which has been pubUahing a aeries of articles on ghost towns/1 recently sent a staff writer to the nearby village of Clermont to trace its rise and decline.The Times' interesting article on Clermont follows;Some wandering Pilgrim has daub-j ed on the black rocks which jut the tortuous road to Clermont, Pa., the admonition Seek Christ or Ye Perish/' comment Lyle E. Petteys, Times staff writer. The Clermont of old has perished, he continues, not by the hand of a wrathful God, but because water seeped beyond control into the mines which gave it birth.The map of McKean county still shows Clermont of the days of “The Patch, when hardy men went down into the mines, and the town thrived and boomed. That was in 1875.Only a school and church remain as a reminder of the town of old.Shifting of the town forces the children of the new Clermont to walk nearly a mile to school The church, isoated in a Held, was originally biiilt for union services. A Swedish congregation worships there now.
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McKean County Democrat
Smethport, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, May 30, 1935
Page 6
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