MAZEPPA PA: September 2016

Monday, September 12, 2016

WINDING DOWN

I KNOW MY DAYS OF FISHING THIS YEAR ARE WINDING DOWN AND I GOT ANOTHER MORNING OF QUIET TIME IN THE CREEK YESTERDAY. CAUGHT 13 SO NOT BAD AND ESPECIALLY AS LOW AS THE CREEK IS. WE JUST CAN'T SEEM TO GET ANY OF THOSE RAINS THEY ARE GETTING DOWN SOUTH TO MOVE UP THE COAST AND HELP US OUT. CAUGHT THE SMALLEST PICKERAL

I HAVE EVER NETTED AND THE LITTLE BUGGER COULDN'T HAVE BEEN ANYMORE THAN 7 INCHES LONG. MADE ME SMILE WHEN I SAW WHAT IT WAS. LOTS OF WILDLIFE INCLUDING A RACCOON WADING THE SHALLOW WATER GETTING HIS MEAL. ATTACHING 2 PICTURES I TOOK TO THIS POST

Monday, September 5, 2016

2 DAYS WORTH PERCY

GOING TO COMBINE 2 DAYS OF FISHING IN ONE REPORT PERCY. WAS ON VACATION THIS WEEK AND SPENT QUITE A BIT OF IT IN BUFFALO CREEK. THURSDAY I ONLY CAUGHT 10 BUT ONE HUGE PICKERAL AND SAW TONS OF HERONS AND KINGFISHERS. TODAY I GOT 12 AND ALL BUT 2 WERE SMALLMOUTHS. NOTHING HUGE TODAY AND ONLY SAW ONE GREEN HERON. LOTS OF KINGFISHERS AND THEY ARE HAVING A FIELD DAY WITH THE CREEK BEING SO LOW. HAVE TO COMMENT TOO ABOUT HOW MANY FROGS THERE ARE THIS YEAR. JUST SEEM TO BE ALL OVER AND FUN TO HEAR THEM CROAKING UP AND DOWN THE CREEK. AND WANT TO ALSO LET THE READERS OF THIS BLOG KNOW I JUST DISCOVERED I CAN ADD A PAGE TO THE BLOG AND HOPING TO DO THAT SOON AND THAT WAY ADD ALL OF THE PHOTOS IN A MORE ACCESSIBLE MANNER. GOOGLE GOOFED UP THE SIMPLE LINK WE HAD BEFORE AND RIGHT NOW I PUT THEM IN 2 POSTS TITLED......PICTURES. HOPE TO WORK ON THAT 2ND PAGE THIS WEEK. THANKS FOR YOUR PATIENCE ! DOUG

MAZEPPA HISTORY

MANY FOLKS WOULD BE SURPRISED TO KNOW THAT MAZEPPA HAS QUITE A BIT OF HISTORY. THE TOWN GOT IT'S NAME FROM LORD BYRON'S POEM

" MAZEPPA." ORIGINALLY NAMED BOYERTOWN AFTER THE FOUNDER SAMUEL BOYER AND HIS WIFE SARAH. A POST OFFICE WAS STARTED IN 1886 AND A NEW NAME WAS NEEDED AS THERE ALREADY WAS A BOYERTOWN IN PENNSYLVANIA. SCHOOLMASTER CLEMENT EDMUNDS SUGGESTED MAZEPPA AND IT WAS APPROVED. MAZEPPA MILLS WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1788 AND STAYED IN OPERATION TILL 1981 WHEN EUGENE JOHNSON RETIRED. MILL WAS STARTED BY MICHAEL RENTSCHELER.

SEVERAL DOCTORS PRACTICED IN TOWN. DR S. ASHER DIEFFENDERFER LIVED ON THE WENDELL STAHL FARM. DR ISSAC FETTEROLF PRACTICED OUT OF THE GARMAN HOME IN THE CNETER OF TOWN.

FRANK STRAUB WAS THE MORTICIAN. A TRADITION WAS WHEN THE PERSON WAS REMOVED FROM THE HOME THE CHURCH BELL WOULD TOLL.

MILTON REMALY WAS A PIANO REPAIRMAN.

JACOB DELCAMP WAS A BLACKSMITH IN TOWN.

FRANK WHITMAN HAD A BLACKSMITH SHOP ON THE OLD JAMES STAHL PROPERTY.

ELMER FEASTER HAD A SADDLE SHOP IN THE LITTLE BUILDING THAT LATER SERVED AS A BARBER SHOP BY FRANK DELCAMP.

AT THE OLD TOM STAHLEY HOME THERE WAS A WAGON BUSINESS OWNED BY THEODORE FANGBONER.

JAMES MATHERS WAS A SHOEMAKER IN TOWN AND ALSO KNOW FOR HIS HORSERADISH.

JOHN BEEBER WAS THE GUNSMITH IN TOWN.

PETER STAHL WAS A CHAIR MAKER.

AT THE ALBERT DELCAMP PROPERTY THERE WAS A CREAMERY . CREAM WAS SENT TO MIFFLINBURG TO BE MADE INTO ICE CREAM AND CHEESE.

IN 1921 FRANK STAHL STARTED AN EGG BUSINESS THAT WAS THEN CONTINUED BY SONS FRANK AND WENDELL.

KEN FISHER HAD AN ELECTRICAL BUSINESS ON THE SOUTH END OF TOWN.

JULY 22, 1926 A TORNADO HIT THE TOWN AND THE ENTIRE STEEPLE INCLUDING THE BELL WAS TORN FROM THE UNION EMANUEL EVANGELICAL CHURCH.

THERE WERE 2 COVERED BRIDGES IN TOWN. ONE OVER SPRUCE RUN AND THE OTHER NEAR THE BALL FIELDS AT THE SOUTH END OF TOWN.

A FUNNY STORY OF FRANK HEIMBACH COMING HOME ONE NIGHT AND IN THE DARK TRIPPED OVER A COW ON THE BRIDGE. NOT SURE WHO WAS MORE FRIGHTENED.

SEPTEMBER 8, 1916 A MAJOR FIRE TORE THROUGH TOWN AND 6 HOMES AND SEVERAL BARNS WERE LOST. STARTED IN THE WARREN SHUCK STORE.

ALSO LOOK FOR A PICTURE OF ROBERT MYERS IN THE PHOTO ALBUM. GREW UP IN MAZEPPA AND WENT TO LEWISBURG HIGH. IN DECEMBER OR 1942 HE JOINED THE NAVY AND WAS A NAVY DIVER. EARNED THE VICTORY MEDAL,EUROPEAN AFRICAN MIDDLE EASTERN MEDAL AND A SPECIAL BRONZE STAR MEDAL.

HELPED TO CLEAR HEAVILY MINED WATERS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN.

MAZEPPA WILL ALWAYS BE HOME.........

DOUG WALTER

MAZEPPA PA

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WINDING DOWN

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