ABCs of Centre County

Earleystown (Harris) – Earleystown's exact location is not clear, but its location has been described as being on the old road that ran from Sunbury around the end of Nittany Mountain to Bellefonte. William Earley laid out a town site, established a hotel/stagecoach stop, and for several years served as a justice of the peace. Dr. William Irvine Wilson, the first president of the county medical society, also had a home there. Dr. Wilson's farm, identified by the deed as located in "EarliesTown," was about two miles west of Centre Hall on the Brush Valley Road to Linden Hall, near the Black Hawk trailer park. A new turnpike, built over Nittany Mountain in the early 1820s and slightly east of the old Black Hawk Gap Road, bypassed Earleystown and the community eventually disappeared.

End of the Mountain/Lemont (College) – "Lemont, a pretty little village . . . or, as our fathers called it, 'the end of the mountain,' was an important point in the early days of the county, being on the trail leading from the settlements on the West Branch and Bald Eagle to those in Penns Valley and being at the junction of the two valleys". (John Blair Linn, 1883)