Fall Brook, Pennsylvania

Fall Brook is a ghost town located in Ward Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, United States. The town has been deserted since around 1900.

In 1860, the Fallbrook Coal Company founded the town on the Fall Brook Creek. John Magee and his son Duncan had discovered some coal along the banks of the Fall Brook Creek. The Magees also constructed a railroad to connect Fall Brook with Corning, New York where the coal was transported up to the Erie Canal. By 1862, Fall Brook had a population of about 1400 people.^[1]

Eventually the coal ran out, and by 1900 the town ceased to exist.

The town of Fallbrook, California is named after this town.^[1]

References

1 2 Website of Fallbrook, California accessed January 25, 2008

External links

List of People Buried in Fall Brook Cemetery

Municipalities and communities of Tioga County, Pennsylvania, United States

County seat: Wellsboro

Boroughs	Blossburg Elkland Knoxville Lawrenceville Liberty Mansfield Roseville Tioga Wellsboro Westfield

Townships	Bloss Brookfield Charleston Chatham Clymer Covington Deerfield Delmar Duncan Elk Farmington Gaines Hamilton Jackson Lawrence Liberty Middlebury Morris Nelson Osceola Putnam Richmond Rutland Shippen Sullivan Tioga Union Ward Westfield

CDPs	Arnot Millerton

Unincorporated communities	Ansonia Antrim Blackwell Fall Brook Holliday Leetonia Morris Nauvoo Roaring Branch Sabinsville

Coordinates: 41°40′38″N 76°59′09″W / 41.67722°N 76.98583°W / 41.67722; -76.98583

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