Township Trivia

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• Stonycreek township made international headlines on Sept. 11, 2001 when flight 93 crash-landed near Lambertsville.
  
  
• Stony Creek township was organized as a township of Bedford County in 1792. It was transferred to Somerset County when Somerset County was formed in 1795.
  
  
• 1st general store in Shanksville: opened by Emanuel Shaffer about 1828.
  
  
• 1st wagon shop in Shanksville: started by John R. Marker about 1828.
  
  
• 1st hotel in Shanksville: opened by Daniel Shank prior to 1840.
  
  
• 1st physician: Dr. Fulk
  
  
• 1st church: The Reformed and Lutheran denominations erected the first church in 1848. The building is now the Reformed church.
  
  
• Shanksville postoffice was established in 1847 with Josiah Brant as postmaster.
  
  
• In 1884, Shanksville had three churches, one physician, three general stores, one tinstore, one saddlershop, two blacksmith shops, one wagonshop, two planing-mills, one flour-mill and one hotel.
  
  

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