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It is located seven miles north of Williamsport on Mill Creek, which flows southwest into the Lycoming Creek. English immigrant John Ball founded a saw mill in the village in the 1790s and, after he drowned, his son Bill Ball opened a wool mill and named the place Balls Mills with the apostrophe omitted. [ 2 ]
Williamsport was incorporated as a borough on March 1, 1806, and as a city on January 15, 1866. The city is the original home of Little League Baseball, founded in 1939 as a three-team league.
The Wheels of Soul Motorcycle club was founded in 1967 by an unidentified man known as "Coffee". The organization was set up in Philadelphia, which acted as the group's mother chapter as they began expanding into other states. In the early 1970s, the Wheels of Soul was considered a social organization before evolving into an "outlaw" club. [4]
Williamsport is the larger principal city of the Williamsport-Lock Haven, PA Combined Statistical Area, which includes the Williamsport metropolitan area (Lycoming County) and the Lock Haven micropolitan area (Clinton County) [23] [24] [25] and had a combined population of 157,958 at the 2000 census.
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The sheer boom gathered the logs into the main boom that was capable of holding up to 300 million board feet (700 million m³) of logs. The lower end of the boom was where the logs were sorted. The mills in Williamsport, South Williamsport, and Duboistown each had their own distinctive brand burnt or cut into the logs. The men working at the ...
Lycoming Creek runs the length of the township from northeast to southwest on its course to the West Branch Susquehanna River at Williamsport. The Allegheny Plateau rises to elevations of 1,800 to 2,100 feet (550 to 640 m) on both sides of the creek, 1,200 to 1,400 feet (370 to 430 m) above the valley bottom.
It is part of the Williamsport Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is the second largest municipality in Lycoming County, in terms of population, behind the county seat, Williamsport. The township was settled in 1768 and incorporated in 1786. It is located on the north bank of the West Branch Susquehanna River. Native American artifacts can be ...