4-626: Centre Furnace is an iron furnace located in College Township , Centre County , in the Nittany Valley . It was the first charcoal iron furnace built west of the Susquehanna River in 1790-91 by war generals Samuel Miles and John Patton . The furnace was central to the development of the Nittany Valley. The furnace is the namesake of Centre County. The furnace is across Porter Road from
8-604: A college. They chose a township in the first range in the Congress Lands , namely R1E T5. The village of College Corner takes its name from its position in the northwest corner of this section and the Indiana town of College Corner took its name from its Ohio counterpart. When Butler County was originally divided into townships in 1803, this land was included in St. Clair Township , then later Milford Township before Oxford Township
12-542: The Centre Furnace Mansion House . This Centre County, Pennsylvania state location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . College Township The "College Township" was the full survey township located in the northwest corner of Butler County, Ohio , now corresponding to the civil township of Oxford , designated by the Ohio General Assembly to be the site of
16-517: The state university now called Miami University . When Congress, on May 5, 1792, authorized the sale to John Cleves Symmes of the land known as the Symmes Purchase , one of the terms was that he would allocate a full township of land to support a university, a promise he never fulfilled. The United States Congress subsequently allowed the State of Ohio to pick a township in the public domain for
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