00:01 - Pennsylvania is home to some of the most beautiful courthouses in america.

00:06 - It's rare when politics art and law meet at the front door

00:10 - but it happens in the keystone state.

00:13 - For more than one hundred twenty five years

00:15 - the county commissioners association of Pennsylvania

00:18 - has carried the legacy.

00:20 - Pennsylvania's historic courthouses.

00:23 -

00:31 - Hello.

00:32 - I'm commissioner Bob snyder.

00:34 - On behalf of my fellow commissioners basil Hoffman

00:37 - and Norman weimer.

00:39 - The county of commissioners association of Pennsylvania

00:42 - and pcn

00:43 - i would like

00:43 - to welcome you

00:44 - to a beautiful forest county.

00:47 - Our county seat is Tionesta

00:49 - where our courthouse is situated

00:51 - Tionesta is a native American word

00:53 - for home of the wolves.

00:55 - Forest county is situated in the northwest

00:56 - region of Pennsylvania in a densely forested area

00:59 - making it a hunter's paradise

01:01 - to come and visit and hunt.

01:03 - Forty five percent of our county.

01:06 - Is sits within the border hers of the allegheny national

01:09 - forest we also bear portions of the corn planter state forest

01:13 - cooks forest state park

01:14 - and the army corps of engineers operated Tionesta lake and campground

01:18 - that being said over fifty percent of our county

01:21 - is owned by the state and federal government.

01:24 - We are bordered on two sides of her county by to wild and scenic rivers

01:27 - the allegheny on the west

01:29 - and the clarion on the east

01:31 - we also boasts many great fishing holes and fishing streams

01:35 - within the county.

01:37 - Forrest county was described in nineteen eighty four and outside magazine

01:41 - as being the top one hundred counties in the nation

01:44 - it was described as having the right amount of ruggedness

01:47 - natural beauty

01:48 - and recreational opportunities.

01:50 - The population of forrest county

01:52 - as last documented in the two thousand and ten census

01:55 - was seven thousand and seven hundred and sixteen residents is.

01:58 - However you must know

01:59 - that over twenty two one hundred of those reside

02:01 - at sci forest

02:03 - which is a state correctional institution

02:05 - situated in maryville Pennsylvania

02:07 - horse county has more seasonal dwellings

02:11 - than we do a permanent residence is

02:13 - it is typical for our population to double.

02:16 - During hunting season

02:17 - fishing season

02:19 - and summer holidays.

02:21 - You might be interested to know that forrest county is so rural

02:23 - we have no red light in the entire county.

02:26 - The establishment of forrest county was not an easy process

02:30 - in the early eighteen hundreds

02:31 - the western side of forrest county was actually a part of an ngo county

02:35 - in the eastern portion of forrest county

02:37 - was a part of Jefferson county.

02:39 - Cyrus blood was a pioneer settler who founded forrest county

02:43 - and eighteen thirty three

02:44 - he traveled from new Hampshire to sure the northern pa art of Jefferson county

02:48 - and purchase a large tract of land and wish to settle on.

02:51 - He immediately

02:52 - became obsessed with petitioning to form a county all of its own.

02:56 - He settled in a small area

02:58 - in the eastern part of the county

03:00 - and name that village after his daughter Marion

03:02 - known as marysville today.

03:04 - The enlargement active eighteen sixty six.

03:07 - Expanded forrest county to include not only

03:10 - the three

03:11 - municipalities

03:12 - on the east side of the county but to include

03:13 - the five on the western side of the county.

03:16 - The same enlargement act also changed the county seat from maryville

03:21 - to tie nesta that did not go over well with a lot

03:23 - of the pa population on eastern side of the county

03:26 - are still exists a lot of animosities today over that process.

03:31 - The story is told still today that in the

03:33 - dead of night

03:34 - the good citizens of China's to

03:36 - with an ox team in a wagon

03:38 - traveled to marry anvil

03:39 - loaded the courthouse

03:41 - and hold it back to tie nest.

03:43 - There were so much controversy that a bill was introduced into the legislature

03:48 - to do away with the enlargement act

03:50 - but failed to pass

03:51 - then the legality of changing the county seat for marrying build a tie nesta

03:55 - was put before the supreme court

03:57 - upheld

03:58 - therefore China to remained and still remains

04:01 - the county seat

04:02 - please enjoy the the rare out of the video

04:04 - and the other speakers as a explain more about our county

04:07 - and the tour of our courthouse.

04:09 - I.

04:12 - Good morning and forrest county commissioner baseball huffman

04:15 - and we're pleased to have PC and

04:17 - enforce county doing

04:18 - the courthouse of Pennsylvania series.

04:22 - My part of the project is to.

04:24 - Show the people the monuments in the courthouse a yard

04:27 - and this morning we going to start was one of the most important monuments in our yard

04:32 - which had to do with a tornado outbreak

04:34 - on march thirty first nineteen eighty five.

04:38 - We were always told that because of our geographical location

04:41 - we would not have tornadoes in our area

04:44 - but we were

04:45 - very surprised by the

04:47 - outbreak of

04:48 - seventy tornadoes that moved across north west Pennsylvania

04:52 - and in our county and f

04:53 - for tornado.

04:55 - We lost seven of our.

04:57 - People

04:58 - and thirty people injured.

05:00 - Forty homes were destroyed in many others were damaged.

05:05 - During the tornado clean up

05:06 - a group.

05:08 - Called first

05:09 - was organized

05:10 - to help people that were

05:12 - injured

05:13 - and displaced by the tornado.

05:15 - They did a wonderful job the committee that was working on that

05:19 - and at the end they had some money left over

05:21 - and

05:22 - with it

05:22 - they place this monument

05:24 - on our forest county

05:25 - property

05:26 - and it is

05:28 - a very moving thing

05:29 - every.

05:30 - May thirty first to remember those people that we lost.

05:39 - This monument is a German

05:41 - many were for canon

05:43 - it was donated by the state

05:45 - to the borough of tyne NASA in nineteen twenty eight.

05:48 - I think the most interesting part about this monument

05:51 - is actually the foundation

05:53 - this stone.

05:55 - Is as a burst one from the hundred gristmill here in tyne esta

05:58 - and tradition tells us.

06:00 - That there

06:01 - is no stone like this in the tennis to area

06:04 - and that this stone was imported from France

06:07 - and brought up the allegheny river by canoe.

06:11 - This monument.

06:12 - Was done in nineteen seventy one by the tiniest a lions club.

06:16 - This bell that is in the monument

06:19 - was originally on a coupla on top of our courthouse

06:22 - and the lions club raise the funds

06:24 - and completely did this project on their own.

06:31 - These two pair of cannons were donated needed to the county by the u s government.

06:37 - They were built and eighteen twenty nine

06:39 - and placed in the.

06:41 - Courthouse

06:42 - yard and eighteen

06:43 - ninety seven.

06:45 - They weigh over four thousand pounds a piece.

06:49 - These cannons were originally placed on what basis.

06:52 - They had rotted away

06:54 - and then they were replaced by these beautiful stone basis.

06:57 - In nineteen no one that was dedicated by congressman sibley from Franklin.

07:01 - Who drove up and was the first automobile to drive into forrest county.

07:06 - At.

07:10 - This poorest county war memorial

07:12 - was set on the courthouse lawn

07:14 - in November of nineteen ninety three

07:17 - and at that time contain

07:19 - the names of twenty two hundred veterans

07:21 - from poorest county who served

07:23 - their country during times of war.

07:26 - The funds for this project were

07:28 - raised by the.

07:29 - Tiniest of vfw.

07:31 - At that time

07:33 - and

07:33 - now the vfw no longer exists so the county has taken over from

07:38 - putting names on and we have added the wars from the

07:41 - persian Gulf through the global war on terrorism.

07:47 - Hi folks my name is Norman weimer on

07:49 - one of the forest county commissioners

07:51 - been a county commissioners since nineteen ninety six.

07:55 - This is my

07:56 - going into my sixteenth year

07:58 - at the end of this term I'll have completed twenty years of service

08:01 - as a sitting in the county commissioner's office

08:03 - what i'm going to do here this ma earning for you is to give you a quick tour of our

08:06 - court room facility in the court house.

08:10 - Every courthouse has two different functions the side

08:14 - where we have the offices of the treasurer and the

08:18 - commissioners

08:19 - the working part of the

08:20 - the daily working part of the of the county

08:23 - but there is an important part too which is the Judas little side

08:25 - and in in two thousand and six

08:28 - the county commissioners took on a very large project and renovating the second floor

08:34 - of this building the entire second floor was was renovated

08:38 - and we spent nearly a million dollars in that process and

08:42 - we're very proud of what we did upstairs

08:44 - and i want to

08:45 - want to share that with you

08:46 - one of the things that you'll see.

08:49 - Down here on the first floor

08:51 - is the staircase the staircase

08:54 - and the

08:54 - and used to be on this side which is now elevator and handicapped restrooms

08:59 - so one of the things we took care of in two thousand and six was.

09:03 - Are handicapped accessibility issues as well.

09:06 - While balancing that with preserving the integrity

09:10 - and the architectural design

09:12 - and the.

09:14 - The history that we that we have here in

09:16 - county particularly in our

09:17 - in our courtroom

09:18 - where real excited about what we have upstairs and i'm real excited about sharing

09:22 - that with you so we'll move upstairs.

09:27 - Hi folks and welcome to our main courtroom

09:30 - not only our main courtroom but it's our only courtroom.

09:33 - Forrest county

09:34 - shares its thirty seventh judicial district with Warren county

09:39 - there are three judges the judges are primarily do

09:41 - their work up in Warren county but they come down here

09:45 - forrest county and this is where they do their work while they're here

09:48 - this courtroom also are shared by one of our local

09:51 - are only.

09:52 - Magisterial district as well

09:54 - his office is also found

09:56 - on the second floor here

09:57 - again we're very proud of the renovation we did hear back in two thousand and six

10:01 - completed in two thousand and seven

10:03 - and we tried to save as much

10:05 - wood

10:06 - from the original

10:08 - courtroom

10:09 - and

10:10 - we had some surprises what during that that process

10:13 - but what we did save was the

10:15 - the the original railing

10:17 - that you see here behind me

10:19 - it.

10:20 - It separates the audience from the

10:23 - from the judge

10:24 - and and

10:25 - is that it's exactly how it was position back

10:28 - in prior to two thousand and six before we did the renovation.

10:32 - One of the things that we found

10:34 - during the renovation

10:35 - we had heard

10:36 - thoughts rumors that there were

10:39 - two.

10:41 - Very historic paintings

10:43 - behind the judges bench

10:45 - we weren't sure if they were there or not

10:47 - we had assumed that through the years they had gotten

10:50 - painted over or for whatever reason just zte

10:52 - we're we're just not available to be seen.

10:56 - However and during the renovation process we.

11:00 - Were

11:00 - very carefully started to remove what would

11:02 - i can remember to be multilayers of wallpaper

11:06 - and

11:07 - on top of the wallpaper was paneling

11:10 - and once we started to remove that lo and behold we found two very historic paintings

11:15 - known as frescoes you can see them behind me

11:19 - and i'd like to talk more in depth about each one of those

11:22 - lady justice is to

11:25 - your right

11:26 - to the law after the judge

11:27 - actually in this situation

11:29 - a poor very appropriately you're sitting or laying

11:31 - are

11:32 - lying on the wall right behind the judge

11:34 - and lady Liberty is to

11:37 - your left

11:38 - the judges right

11:39 - which is a symbolism of

11:40 - freedom

11:42 - and i'd like to

11:43 - talk more in depth about each one of those

11:46 - who we effectually call our forrest county ladies.

11:50 - So very brief history of these two ladies the they're called frescoes

11:55 - in eighteen eighty four

11:56 - we found in the chemistry or minutes that they contracted with a local painter

12:02 - from a

12:02 - one community away.

12:04 - Who

12:05 - actually came to them and decided that the

12:08 - that the courtroom was

12:09 - very stark it was cold it was very white.

12:12 - The makeup of the of the walls was

12:15 - plaster on laugh

12:17 - and

12:18 - so

12:19 - this painter decided that he he thought the

12:21 - courtroom should should have more appeal to it

12:24 - so

12:25 - they the he painted columns and he painted Rick

12:28 - rack and Ivy leaves on all around the courtroom

12:31 - and none of us knew that it was there.

12:34 - During the renovation

12:36 - when we started to remove the wallpaper

12:39 - is when we found the

12:40 - frescoes

12:42 - and

12:42 - of the

12:44 - we merely knew we had to preserve them

12:46 - we.

12:47 - Contracted with a from

12:49 - in erie Pennsylvania yeah who came down and

12:51 - and

12:52 - was able to.

12:54 - Remove them safely

12:55 - take them back to where they did the work

12:58 - and bring them back here they all they both had to go in and out by crane.

13:02 - There are quite large and quite heavy

13:04 - and what i'd like to do now is just

13:06 - briefly discuss a little bit about the symbolism

13:09 - of each

13:10 - of each

13:11 - fresco.

13:13 - So starting from the top of lady justice

13:16 - you'll see

13:16 - it's not real prominent on on

13:18 - this version of lady justice

13:20 - but you'll see what's called a tiara.

13:23 - It's a little hat on top of her head

13:25 - thus the symbol of of the official nature of her endeavor.

13:29 - She has a very somber look.

13:31 - That look is

13:32 - signifies the seriousness of the matter before the court.

13:36 - She has a set of scales and her left hand.

13:40 - The scales are so that the facts can be properly weighed

13:43 - and measured and be considered without prejudice.

13:46 - She has a blindfold

13:47 - the

13:48 - the symbolism of the blindfold is

13:50 - that.

13:52 - Justice is blind equal justice is for all regardless

13:55 - of race color creed religion or stature in life.

13:59 - She has a sword.

14:01 - I personally like the sword i like what it represents you can see that she has a very

14:07 - light grip on the sword.

14:10 - What that means is that she is ready and willing at any given moment to.

14:15 - Protect the innocent

14:17 - as well as to

14:19 - execute justice

14:20 - as needed and apply penalty.

14:23 - The mantle or the Shaw in this in this rendition

14:25 - over her shoulders is a symbol of authority

14:28 - and if you look real close at the are very base

14:31 - you'll see her toes are peaking out of her gown.

14:34 - What that symbolizes is that nothing comes between justice and the people.

14:42 - Lady Liberty has a much different representation then

14:45 - lady justice.

14:47 - You have to remember that in eighteen eighty four when these were painted.

14:51 - Our country was in a post civil war turmoil

14:54 - families were separated

14:57 - are colonies were separated

14:59 - and there was a lot of work that needed to be done in rebuilding our

15:02 - relationships with each other

15:05 - and lady Liberty

15:06 - is a good civil of that relationship building.

15:10 - So I'll discuss

15:12 - from the top down lady Liberty symbolism.

15:15 - If you look at lady Liberty she has stars in her hair

15:19 - and she also has a stair what appears to be up and into nowhere.

15:26 - This is a symbolism of

15:28 - eternity or looking towards the future.

15:32 - She has a wreath in her left hand

15:34 - that's known as the victory wreath.

15:37 - Also on her left hand she is a shield decorated with stars and stripes which are

15:41 - symbolic of the original thirteen

15:43 - colonies of america.

15:46 - She's willing and ready to drop the

15:49 - the wreath at any time and defend

15:51 - the country.

15:53 - If you look at her belt.

15:55 - There's a u s standing of course for the in the united states.

15:59 - The staff as a symbolism of power.

16:03 - And on top of that staff is a cap.

16:06 - The cap on top of the staff.

16:08 - Has a significant symbolism

16:10 - the cap was given to emancipated slaves as a symbol of freedom in ancient Rome

16:15 - and later used by the French revolutionaries to symbolize

16:18 - their Liberty.

16:21 - This

16:22 - mural also has.

16:24 - Her toes peeking out underneath her gown

16:27 - for the same reasons that there's nothing

16:29 - that separates Liberty

16:31 - from the people.

16:34 - It's interesting to note that.

16:37 - At the end of our

16:38 - pledge of allegiance.

16:41 - The words one nation under god

16:43 - indivisible with Liberty and justice for all.

16:48 - This these two frescoes

16:50 - are a some symbol of our pledge of allegiance and are legions to our country.

16:59 - I would be remiss if if i didn't take the opportunity to highlight

17:02 - our county law library

17:04 - this was a part of the renovation process

17:06 - we are still on the second floor.

17:09 - When we

17:10 - decided to put the law library here on the second floor

17:13 - we envisioned

17:14 - a simple room with probably.

17:18 - Mediocre

17:19 - bookshelves.

17:21 - And

17:22 - whatever we needed to put into make it.

17:25 - Workable.

17:27 - We had a local family come to us

17:30 - right after the renovation was completed

17:31 - before the shelves that you see around me were

17:34 - placed in.

17:35 - Local family came to us who were

17:38 - the grand

17:39 - son

17:40 - and son

17:41 - of

17:42 - Mary encourager.

17:44 - More more

17:45 - affectionately known as am a character

17:48 - and a character

17:49 - was a district attorney for the

17:51 - county for.

17:52 - Over forty years.

17:54 - So the family came to us and wanted to do

17:56 - something special in honor and in memory of there.

18:01 - Father and grandfather Emmy geringer

18:04 - so they wanted to put in a law library

18:07 - with would harvested actually from

18:10 - his land in the surrounding area.

18:12 - So they harvest the best cherry they could find

18:15 - and got a local carpenter and

18:18 - they had

18:19 - these

18:20 - built in bookshelves elves

18:21 - and table made.

18:23 - In honor and in memory of 'em a carriage or

18:26 - the longest running

18:28 - district attorney

18:29 - of forrest county

18:30 - we appreciate their efforts

18:32 - and because of what they'd done mr characters legacy and his

18:36 - his memory will continue on

18:39 - for many decades to come.

18:46 - Good afternoon and welcome to forest got my name is Bob

18:49 - Wolfgang and i have the honor of being sheriff of our

18:52 - beautiful county i am here today to talk a little bit about the history of our jail

18:57 - and criminal justice cetera air and for his caddie

19:00 - it's located right next to the court has her and

19:03 - and esta.

19:04 - I'd like to travel back in time to April eleventh of

19:07 - eighteen forty eight when our county was first form.

19:11 - Where they took two hundred square miles of land from Jefferson county

19:16 - that makes up a barnett

19:18 - jenks and how townships

19:20 - and the Marion valera villa.

19:23 - At that time

19:24 - they named our county said was

19:26 - Marion which is actually now

19:28 - the village of Marion well.

19:31 - We

19:31 - continue operating under Jefferson county both

19:34 - administratively

19:36 - and judicial a

19:37 - until we had our first elections and forest county on October third the first of

19:43 - eighteen fifty seven it was that same year that day belt our first

19:48 - courthouse and our first jail

19:51 - in a

19:51 - town of marianne

19:53 - which is now

19:54 - Marion vel that was our county said.

19:56 - We continued operations in

19:59 - Marion

19:59 - until

20:01 - eighteen sixties sex

20:03 - when a

20:03 - state legislature again expanded on forrest county by taking an additional

20:10 - two hundred and twenty eight square miles from venango county

20:13 - which makes up

20:14 - tyne esta

20:16 - grain.

20:17 - Kingsley het grey

20:19 - and Harmony townships.

20:21 - It was the say

20:22 - or

20:23 - that they

20:24 - are

20:24 - petition to move the county said

20:27 - from Marion

20:28 - or Mary anvil

20:29 - to tie and esta.

20:32 - That was not met without a challenge that went all

20:35 - the way up to the supreme court in Pennsylvania.

20:39 - The supreme court upheld the challenge and the county seat was moved

20:43 - to

20:43 - tie and esta

20:45 - with us moving and tie and esta

20:47 - they had to come up with a jail

20:50 - they build a log cabin jail with iron bars that was located down

20:55 - along the river

20:56 - down below town hair

20:58 - on walnut and river straight

21:01 - we utilize that jail

21:02 - for three years until eighteen

21:05 - sixty nine

21:07 - when they

21:08 - built a wooden

21:09 - jail hair for on our present.

21:12 - Location here where the criminal justice building sets now.

21:16 - We.

21:17 - That was completed the

21:19 - probably about

21:20 - three months before they completed the courthouse here to my laughed

21:25 - and we utilize that jail until

21:27 - eighteen ninety five

21:29 - when the county commissioners contracted with

21:32 - Van dorn

21:33 - iron works out of Cleveland Ohio

21:36 - to build a

21:38 - new sheriff's residents and jail

21:41 - which is our current criminal justice building that sits here today

21:45 - this was completed in the fall of eighteen ninety five

21:49 - at a cost of fourteen thousand

21:51 - five hundred dollars

21:53 - he couldn't even

21:54 - touch of building with that this day and age

21:57 - of

21:58 - the building is forty six by fifty seven fate

22:02 - and.

22:03 - Size

22:04 - we had or it's built of.

22:07 - Iron

22:08 - brick

22:09 - stone

22:10 - and wood

22:11 - when the buildings were built here they had a brick plant right here

22:15 - and

22:16 - and as to

22:17 - located just north of the borough hair where the pundit shed sets now

22:21 - so all the brick for these buildings were

22:23 - manufactured right here on site in our town.

22:27 - From this point on i would like to take the

22:30 - camera inside and i will give you a tour of our

22:33 - criminal justice building and as it such today.

22:37 - Back when it was originally built we had two stories for the jail on the rear

22:41 - side of the building

22:43 - and there was three stories on the front that was utilized for the sheriff

22:46 - and his family to live here

22:49 - back then nice sheriff's wife actually done all

22:51 - the cooking for the prisoners within the jail.

22:56 - And will go ahead and

22:57 - move on inside and i will give you a

22:59 - tour of the cells in the building.

23:04 - Okay we're inside the

23:06 - criminal justice building here in

23:08 - and us to

23:09 - our jail is located on the backside.

23:13 - We

23:13 - the sheriff used to actually live

23:16 - in this portion of the building this was his residents along with his family

23:21 - his wife actually really done all the cooking within the

23:25 - building for the prisoners.

23:28 - Back then this

23:29 - practice

23:30 - continued until probably into the late sixties

23:34 - when we

23:35 - contracted with Warren county or neighboring county to hauser prisoners

23:39 - on a per diem basis.

23:41 - You can see the inside the building here the

23:44 - superb would work that they'd done back and

23:47 - eighteen ninety five when this building was built it's absolutely beautiful and hair

23:53 - i feel honored every day that i commend here and work we have the entire.

23:57 - First floor here for my sheriff's offices in jail on

24:01 - the daily business that way we carry out here for the county residents.

24:05 - So i really feel

24:07 - honored to be in this building

24:09 - of the sheriff's residents back when they built us building consisted of three floors

24:15 - and like i said the the sheriff

24:18 - down all of his business

24:19 - out of the house hair run the jail in the back

24:22 - and.

24:24 - We'll go ahead and

24:25 - take a little tour of the jail and the back side

24:27 - of the building there and i can show you what the

24:30 - old cells and things looked like back then.

24:35 - We're here to tour the jail on the back side of the criminal justice building

24:41 - of the jail consists of sex sells on the first floor

24:45 - each cell as eight by fourteen foot in size

24:50 - they contain a

24:51 - water closet

24:53 - a sack ink

24:54 - and a double bed.

24:56 - Each cell locks independently and we have the controls for the

25:01 - cells

25:02 - over here to my left

25:03 - each shell can be locked independently

25:06 - we also have a manned or hair

25:08 - to my right if we want to leave the cells

25:11 - unlock within the

25:13 - jail

25:13 - to allow the prisoners to walk freely we can lock them and or which also

25:19 - as a security device for the jail.

25:24 - The second floor of the jail used to be for are women prisoners and are juvenile.

25:32 - People that we brought into the court system.

25:35 - They however took that portion off of the top floor

25:39 - and that was remodeled with a new office space

25:42 - and we built a

25:44 - addition to the side of the sheriff's office

25:47 - out on the front side of the building there where we detain

25:50 - females and juvenile how's

25:52 - for

25:53 - court proceedings or if we arrest somebody an arrest warrant or whatever

25:58 - the jail is no longer are utilized on a daily

26:01 - basis it's utilized for detention purposes only

26:05 - we house all of our prison prisoners currently at our.

26:10 - Neighboring county north of us here and more

26:12 - county on a per diem basis i believe we pay

26:15 - fifty five dollars a day

26:17 - and there's no way that we can run a jail here and do

26:21 - that for that type of fee here in this day and age.

26:24 - That concludes the tour of our jail and our criminal justice building

26:29 - and i would like to thank all the residents of forest county and we're here to serve

26:34 - you as your law enforcement officials

26:37 - and anyone

26:38 - that would like to come in and have a tour of our criminal justice building here

26:43 - we would be more than happy to accommodate you

26:46 - and give you a tour throughout our building.

26:53 - Were gathered here today on the courthouse lawn in Tionesta Pennsylvania

26:58 - to celebrate

26:59 - the two hundredth anniversary

27:01 - of the settlement of Tionesta.

27:05 - Lieutenant John range senior

27:07 - came to Tionesta

27:09 - he was awarded two hundred and fifty some odd acres.

27:13 - East of the allegheny

27:15 - for his service in the revolutionary war.

27:18 - Our chapter of the DAR

27:21 - put this monument in his honor

27:24 - on our courthouse lawn and nineteen twenty five.

27:27 - We're very proud to lay a wreath

27:29 - in honor of two hundred years

27:31 - of our Tionesta hometown.

27:39 - And

27:45 - i hope you've enjoyed

27:47 - seeing our county facilities here in forrest county

27:50 - we have a beautiful county

27:51 - but one thing that i am most proud of

27:53 - is the staff that works here for us in this county.

27:56 - We get so many compliments on how well people

27:58 - are treated when it come to our little county

28:01 - and we hope

28:02 - that someday you'll stop in and see some of the services that we do perform.

28:06 - We supply children and youth services,

28:08 - mental health, mental retardation, drug and alcohol.

28:12 - Plus

28:13 - we

28:14 - have all your elections

28:15 - that we do every year.

28:18 - So we hope that you would stop by

28:20 - take a private tour of our courthouse

28:22 - I'd sure be glad to see ya.

28:24 - Come back when you can.

28:47 - The preceding program was sponsored in part by the

28:50 - county commissioners association of Pennsylvania

28:53 -