1800-Reminiscences of Old Times in the Cowanesque Valley

Cowanesque Indian Trail Played Part in Penn History

1897 Tioga County History

Cowanesque, formerly known as Edgcombville, is the name of a village, situated on the Cowanesque river, two miles east of Westfield borough. The first settler upon the village site was Henry B. Trowbridge, who located in 1821. The principal manufacturing enterprise in the village was the planning mill, sash and door factory, owned and operated since January, 1888, by E. Sherman. per joycetice.com

The Cowanesque River is a 41.4-mile-long (66.6 km)[1] tributary of the Tioga River in Potter and Tioga counties, Pennsylvania, and Steuben County, New York, in the United States. Cowanesque River near the Pennsylvania/New York border. The Cowanesque River (Native American for "overrun with briars") joins the Tioga River soon after crossing from Pennsylvania into New York, near the borough of Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania. In Tioga County, the Cowanesque Dam was constructed by the US Army Corps of Engineers to develop the Cowanesque Lake, a flood prevention lake regulating the valley.
Source: Cowanesque River on en.wikipedia.org

Maps of School District Progression
-- The schools started in homes
and progressed to one room small units.
Then progressed to community schools,
then to Westfield School District,
to Cowanesque School District,
and then to Northern Tioga School District.
Each distict having a much larger coverage area included in the school district.