Olive Tidd (Martin) Ollie the Wild Cat

Olive Martin was born on the frontier in a place which one day would be named after a Family member,

HISTORY

The first settlement of the area known today as Lower Mount Bethel Township took place in the early 1730’s when Alexander Hunter and several Scotch-Irish families began farming homesteads in a general area known as both Hunter’s Settlement and Martin’s Settlement. The source of the latter name was James Martin, another early settler, who later was a colonel during the Revolutionary War.

Prior to this settlement, the Scotch-Irish families had lived as far north as Forks Township and in 1728 had built a gristmill on the Delaware River north of Easton. The Mount Bethel hills at that time were barren because the Indians would burn the forests to drive out animals during their hunting expeditions. It was almost a century later before the area assumed a forested appearance.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Martins Creek is a 10.4-mile-long (16.7 km)[1] tributary of the Delaware River in eastern Pennsylvania in the United States. Martins Creek joins the Delaware River at the town of Martins Creek. The source of the name was James Martin, early settler to the town Martins Creek, who later was a colonel during the Revolutionary War.

On the East Fork

Today the East Fork rises to the south of Kittatinny Mountain in Upper Mount Bethel Township, Northampton County. It is impounded to form Minsi Lake, the center of a county park. The largest white perch caught in the state was caught here in 1991. Below the lake, it flows through a swamp and meets the West Fork just below North Bangor.

Sources:

HUNTER MARTIN MUSEUM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martins_Creek_(Delaware_River)

• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Aug 10 2016, 23:24:17 UTC

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