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TIONESTA

	Tionesta Lake near the former Village of Nebraska, Pennsylvania

As the lake behind the dam filled, various old village sites along Tionesta Creek were of necessity abandoned.  Nebraska was one of those old sites along the Creek.  In the early 1940's, the residents of Nebraska were told to leave by the Federal Government.  The village of Nebraska was a nineteenth century lumber town, home to millionaire lumbermen Truemann D. Collins and site of one of his sawmills along Tionesta Creek.  Collins built a fine Italianate residence with an impressive tower which allowed him to look over Nebraska and down on his lumber mill.

Truemann D. Collins, better known as Teddy Collins, was somewhat eccentric.  He dressed at times in frumpy clothes and rode an old two-wheel cart behind a fat-bellied horse.  He was known to have taken several days to personally negotiate the purchase of a thirty-five dollar cow, totally unheard of for a man with his means.  It is said because of his manner of dress that day, Teddy was once denied a room at a fine hotel.  He bought the place that same day and stayed the night.  He and his brother, Joseph, built several fine hotels, some of the very best in Pennsylvania and New York.  For example, the Collins brothers built the Collins House in Oil City in 1873, a large and flamboyant commercial Italianate structure known in later years as the Arlington. Both the Arlington in Oil City and the buildings which once constituted the village of Nebraska are now gone.  The Nebraska site at the top of Tionesta Lake can be reached today by boat on Tionesta Lake or by driving southeast on Route 36.  Turn left off Route 36 at Newmansville onto the old Nebraska Road.  Follow the road north and down into the Tionesta Creek valley.  Where the bridge crosses the Creek is the site of the old lumber village called Nebraska.  This road will take you back to Tionesta.