Sights To See - The Monuments For Events That May Not Have Happened

 
Historical Events That May Not Have Ever Happened

Shawana Indian Princess Jersey Shore Pa	The Tiadaghton Elm  The Historical Marker For A Tree That Doesn't Exist & An Event That May Not Have Happened
The  Wi-Daagh Memorial  Antes Fort "documenting" the spot where an Indian Chief and William Penn made a land deal, as well as marking the grave of this Indian Chief.	Lenape Wigwam McElhattan Pa

The Dents Run Gold	Rachel Silverthorn's Ride A Muncy Post Office Mural Several have raised questions about the authenticity of this story - but it IS included in the early history of Lycoming County.  I simply do not know.
Two Williamsporters Did Not Write When the Saints Go Marching In	Col John Kelly The Revolutionary War Hero who  Shot the last buffalo in Lewisburg" [1877 Geological & Geographical Study] However...  in 2023, Kim Mattern spoke at the campus theater and made a VERY convincing argument for no buffalo ever existing in this part of the state.

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The Danville Hoaxes

No Historical Markers or Monuments, just Hoax Headlines

1860 Japanese Embassy Hoax	Capt. Kidd's Treasure, 1884

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Errors & Honest Mistakes

Those That Were Not Intentionally Misrepresented

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We all make mistakes.  I make a LOT of them. We all know we can't trust everything we read - whether it was written 100 years ago, or 100 minutes ago.  All historians are human, and we all make mistakes.

Emory Malick When I first wrote about Emory Malick, I wrote that he was the first black aviator.  After all, the Smithsonian had an article saying so.  Turns out, even the Smithsonian is wrong sometimes.  It's still a great story, his race really shouldn't matter - he was still the first aviator in that area.	The Eel Weir In Danville Not built by Native Americans, as so many articles persist in saying... this one was built in 1908 by John Tooey.  [Anything before 1904 was almost definitively destroyed in the ice flood - those gorges were immense, and lasted through June in 1904.]
The Edison Hotel was not the building where Edison first turned on his electric three wire light. The building was the City Hotel.  In 1914, the City Hotel  Edison first wired was destroyed by a fire.  It was rebuilt, and in 1922, Edison came back to Sunbury for the towns Sesquicentennial Celebration.  At that time, the City Hotel was renamed the Edison.