The Bradford County Historical Society located in the historic old Bradford County Jail 109 Pine Street, Towanda will be holding its annual membership meeting on Sunday October 22. The meeting will be held in the Great Room of the museum and begins at 2:00 P.m. The business portion of the meeting will include the report of the president, the report of the manager curator and election of trustees. Those trustees whose terms expire this year are Henry G. Farley, Sayre, J. Kelsey Jones, Mosherville, James Neiley, Wyalusing and Rita Carey, Camptown. These trustees have expressed an interest in continuing to serve on the board and Mrs. Margaret Gaiting Walsh, chairperson of the nominating committee presented their names to the board for approval for the ballot at the annual meeting at the September board meeting.
The society also presents two significant awards at the annual meeting the Clement F. Heverly Outstanding Service Award and the Leo E. Wilt Historian of the Year award. This is the 25th year that the society will be presenting the awards the program began at the 1992 Annual Meeting when James Nobles of Sayre was selected as the historian of the year and the Bradford County Farm Museum, Troy received the group award for outstanding service.
The business meeting will be followed with a program. This year back by popular demand is Todd Babcock. Todd is president of the Tioga Point Museum, Athens and a professional land surveyor. He will be repeating a presentation done earlier this year Mapping Bradford County and the State of Westmoreland. This program draws from the collection of the Tioga Point Museum, and includes some manuscript documents relating to the Susquehanna Land Company and Col. John Franklin’s arrest and imprisonment for treason against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The presentation also covers maps from across Bradford County prepared by Zephon Flower who settled in Athens and was a Deputy Surveyor for the Commonwealth. Todd in his program is able to use his professional skills to tell the early boundary stories of the area.
The program will be followed with light refreshments and tours of the museum. This meeting is open to the membership of the society and the general public. Please call the museum at (570) 265-2240 to reserve a seat for the meeting or contact the society at info@bradfordhistory.com
