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Transfer is an unincorporated community in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, United States. [1] The community is located along a rail line 6.6 miles (10.6 km) north of Hermitage. Transfer has a post office, with ZIP code 16154. [2] [3] Norfolk Southern Railway's Meadville Line passes through the community that is also bisected by Rutledge Road and ...
Wills Creek and Town Creek Watersheds in Pennsylvania and Maryland. Wills Creek drops off the Allegheny Mountains of southeastern Somerset County, Pennsylvania, beginning on the western slope of Savage Mountain [2] in Larimer Township. It flows into Northampton Township, passing through Mance, Philson Station, and Glencoe.
The Wills Creek is defined as a moderately well bedded greenish-gray shale containing local limestone and sandstone zones, or more specifically as an olive to yellowish-gray, thin-bedded sandstone, calcareous shale, dolomite, argillaceous limestone, and sandstone. Red shale and siltstone occur in the lower part of the formation.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 18.2 square miles (47 km 2), all land.. Willistown Township borders Easttown Township, Newtown Township, Edgmont Township, Westtown Township, East Goshen Township, East Whiteland Township, Tredyffrin Township, and the borough of Malvern.
Millers River flowed into the Charles River, providing water transport to commercial and industrial sites along its shores beginning in the early colonial period. [1] It was previously called Willis Creek and is labeled as such on the 1777 Pelham Map, [2] among others.
The first known settler in the area was Samuel Waters, who lived near Wills Creek and built a bridge across it before 1800. Around 1800, Jacob Burkett and Amos Raley started a boatbuilding business at the settlement called Bridgeport. Boats were needed to float grain down to Cumberland, Maryland. In 1850, Enoch Cade opened a store, and in 1865 ...
Little Wills Creek is a 16.3-mile-long (26.2 km) [1] tributary of Wills Creek in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. [ 2 ] Little Wills Creek begins south of Pennsylvania Route 31 .
Mill Creek is a tributary of the Susquehanna River in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania in the United States. It is 8.7 miles (14.0 km) long. [1] Its watershed is approximately 36 square miles in area. The creek flows through Plains Township, Bear Creek Township, and Wilkes-Barre.