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Tionesta
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TIONESTA

Tionesta is situated on the Allegheny where Big Tionesta Creek joins the River about 15 miles east-northeast of Oil City.  Driving from Oil City to Tionesta along the River, you are treated to a dramatic display of thickly forested slopes ascending steeply from the wild and pristine Allegheny.  The River, Big Tionesta Creek and the great Pennsylvania forest shaped the destiny of this small nineteenth century village.  By the 1850's,  rivermen coming down from Warren or New York were accustomed to pulling up and seeking public lodging in this then remote place.  Around the village even then, rafts of rough timber cut in the forest covering the hills above Tionesta Creek were being assembled for floating downriver to Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Louisville and beyond.  By the 1860's, several very prosperous timber companies had saw mills along Tionesta Creek. Tionesta became a main assembly point for both rough cut timber rafts, some as long as 300 feet,  and loads of semifinished lumber shipped downriver on shallow draft flatboats.  The flatboats were constructed on the site.  Eventually, Tionesta became the seat of government for Forest County.
 

	Greek Revival Structure on Elm Street in Tionesta, Pennsylvania

On Elm Street near where the road passes by the mouth of Tionesta Creek stands a Greek Revival structure built when the village was very young, about 1850.  This simple rectangular volume would have appeared to the rivermen of the time to be quite the palace, a luxurious structure for this far away wild place.
 

	131 Elm Street, Tionesta, Pennsylvania

Beside the Greek Revival structure and looking over the River and the mouth of the Creek is a comfortable and colorful Queen Anne built some forty or more years later.  Today, this place at 131 Elm Street is operated as a bed and breakfast and invites the traveler to stop, linger on the broad veranda and stay a bit.