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Lower Piney Cemetery

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Location	:	Armstrong County, USA
Coordinate	:	40.8655920, -79.4395400
Description	:	This cemetery was established in 1832 and most of the graves in the center of the cemetery are unmarked, or have washed out in one of the two ravines that bisect the graveyard. The cemetery is the burial place of Peter Brice, who, along with William Templeton and William Elliot were the original inhabitants of Pine Township. For many years, Peter P. Brice was head of the only Colored Family in this part of Western Pennsylvania. Brice arrived here in 1804 when the mouth of the Mahoning Creek and Allegheny River was an Indian Town of about 30 huts and... Read More	This cemetery was established in 1832 and most of the graves in the center of the cemetery are unmarked, or have washed out in one of the two ravines that bisect the graveyard. The cemetery is the burial place of Peter Brice, who, along with William Templeton and William Elliot were the original inhabitants of Pine Township. For many years, Peter P. Brice was head of the only Colored Family in this part of Western Pennsylvania. Brice arrived here in 1804 when the mouth of the Mahoning Creek and Allegheny River was an Indian Town of about 30 huts and about 150 people. It was a Seneca or Cornplanter town. It is not known when it was founded; probably before 1790. The Indians engaged in hunting and fishing and the squaws raised the corn, which they kept in a hole about four feet deep in the ground, shaped like an earthen dish. They were friendly to Brice and his family. The friendship was mutual, not only between those who lived there, but others from the upper Allegheny who sometimes stopped here. A party of the latter reached here on an autumn day, between 1804 and 1810. After drawing their canoes out on dry land and partaking of Brice's hospitality they proceeded to the hills back from the river, where they spent several days in hunting, and returned laden with game. The river having risen in the meantime their canoes would have been swept down stream if Brice had not secured them. When those Indians became cognizant of the facts, and especially the kindness of Brice, they expressed their gratification by dancing, singing and shouting. In those times bears, deer, wolves, panthers and wild turkeys were abundant along and back from the river. When Brice was farming a portion of the river bottom below Whisky run, fifty odd years ago, he found many large blue, red and white beads, flint darts six inches long, little tomahawks with round poles, and pieces of wire five or six inches long filled with scalps of wild ducks. Source: Page(s) 247-258, History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania by Robert Walker Smith, Esq. Chicago: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883. There is no pull off to speak of for this cemetery and one must actually drive into the cemetery to turn around in order to alleviate the necessity of backing out onto the highway. (Caution, do not drive much past the first row of markers, there is a ditch that has grown over with grass and was hard to see the day I was there...Drive into it and a tow will be necessary.) Driving directions: From Kittanning, PA, at the intersection of Pennsylvania State Route 28/66 and Pennsylvania Route 85, drive north on 28/66, thru the village of Spaces Corners, for a distance of 3.71 miles, from that intersection, to the bridge over Pine Creek. After this Bridge, slow and look to your left as you drive the remaining distance. (About 1/2 to 3/4 mile) There will be a Blue house, on the right, and it is directly across the highway from this cemetery and the number on the mailbox is, currently, 1180. This cemetery is hidden by the woods, but is within 25 feet of the highway. If you reach Ridge Road, which is a a left turn, to Templeton, or if you see the Exxon Station, you missed this place by about 1/2 mile. The cemetery entrance marker is readily visibile from the highway, if one is looking for it, but it is very easy to miss if one has never been there before. Cemetery is in poor condition and many of the markers photographed are no longer visible.

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