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Ken Poorman stuff about Renovo
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| Jesse Hall Park |
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Jesse Hall State Forest Picnic Area
Hall's Run, West
Renovo PA
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| PA Route 144 South of Renovo PA |
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| Hall-Wertz Cemetery |
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My mother's roots are in
Renovo Pa  My Mother, Pearl Hall Poorman, was from South Renovo PA. I used
to spend quite a bit of time in Renovo. When I was young, visiting family and the Hall-Wertz Reunion up Hall's Run.
And when I was a teenager, playing piano with The Teen Tones at the YMCA and the old Seventh Street School. When I was
20/30 something, working for Bell Telephone in Renovo, and playing with a combo around town, e.g. the Elks, the Moose, North
Bend Hotel, Casa Loma, etc.
Here's a
few pix of places I knew . . .
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Pearl Hall Poorman Renovo Pa |
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Oh hey . . . the sign on the parking lot side said North
Bend Hotel, and the sign on the other side of the building said Mountain View Hotel . . . so I'm not sure what it's name
actually was . . . but our band had some rip roarin times there!   
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The "Telephone Man" for the
Renovo area for many years was Irvin W. "Beanie" Edler. I first met Beanie in 1964 when I started working
for Bell Telephone, and we became good friends over the next six or seven years that I worked in that area. Beanie handled
both the outside plant, i.e. installation and repair, and the switching system in the Renovo Central Office on 6th Street
at St. Clair Avenue. He passed over recently, and Renovo will not be the same without him . . .
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Beanie Edler Obit-Renovo Pa
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| Beanie's Office-6th Street |
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| Bucket truck out front |
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Two family places close to my heart . . .
Everett & Emma Hall
Ken & Steve's Great Grandparents
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| Point Breeze House c1900 |
Hall's Point Breeze house is at the end of 1st Street in South Renovo PA - The house where Aunt
Emma, Aunt Belle & my Mom grew up. We rented it out for years, then sold it to the Frank & Helen Steigauf family in
the 1950's. The Guest House, Barn & Ice House were torn down years ago, and the main house and servent
quarters remained when we sold it. Some of the old house is still standing (porches are gone) but was converted into
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Steve & Ken Poorman
2007 Hall-Wertz Reunion Halls Run Park - where we attended the Hall-Wertz Reunion for many years. It is still held annually
on the second Saturday in August. Jesse Hall is buried in the North Bend Cemetery. I'm going to stop there
after the reunion this year (2008). |
| Point Breeze House Map |
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| My Great-Grandparents Home |
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| Lock Haven |
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To get to the Jesse Hall State
Forest Picnic Area in Hall's Run, follow the West Branch of the Susquehanna River up Water Street in Lock Haven PA 17745 to
Susquehanna Avenue, which starts at the Bell Tower of Lock Haven University. Go North on Susquehanna Avenue, which
is PA Route 120. Take 120 North to Renovo PA, about 28 miles. Be careful, watch for rock slides and deer on the
Renovo Road. In Renovo, go to 11th Street and turn left and take PA Route 144 South across the bridge to South
Renovo. In South Renovo, Route 144 will turn right onto Pennsylvania Avenue, and take you through West Renovo to
Jesse Hall State Park, about two miles out of town on your left, just past Barney Run Road. Be careful of little
kids when you're driving down 144, I'm related to just about everyone along that road, and you might see some of my little
cousins riding their bikes along the double yellow line on Halls Run Road. Actually, I don't think that road is wide
enough for a double line in the middle.
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Jesse Hall Picnic Area USGS Renovo West Quad, Pennsylvania Jesse Hall Picnic Area is an Area in the
state of Pennsylvania (county of Clinton), located at latitude - longitude coordinates (also known as lat-long or GPS coordinates)
of N 41.31451 and W -77.78554; United States Geographical Survey map USGS Renovo West quad. Elevation approx.: 896 feet (273 meters)
Quad: Renovo West
Drg Name: o41077c7
Drg Source Scale: 1:24,000
Projection: NAD83/WGS84
There are a lot of photos of Clinton County, including the Renovo Area, on NCPENN.COM . . . check it out - they're doing a great job!
My maternal great grandparents & grandparents,
mother and father, and two children are buried in this Hall-Wertz Family Cemetery in Halls Run PA . . .
Clarence
Hall's Bio Parents
Taylor Zachary Wertz 1849-1919 Phebe Ann Hall 1855-1928 |
Clarence Richard (Wertz) Hall 11/11/1880
- 10/19/1920 |
Alice Thea Downs Hall 8/27/1877 -
12/22/1932 |
Kenneth John Poorman 5/23/1914 - 12/4/1972 Pearl Madeline Hall 7/19/1913
- 2/5/1976 |
Note: My grandfather, Clarence
Richard Hall's biological parents were Taylor Zachary Wertz & Phebe Ann Hall Wertz. But Clarence was adopted
by his uncle and aunt, Everett Franklin Hall & Emma Lousia Wertz Hall because they couldn't have children.
Everett was Phebe's brother, and Emma was Taylor's sister. Another little twist, my grandfather Clarence married
his first cousin, Alice T. Downs, who was Taylor and Emma Wertz' niece, daughter of their sister, Matilda F. Wertz Downs.
Am I my own grandpa, or something? Ha. Check it out Check out some other of our Hall-Wertz residents of the
Hall-Wertz & North Bend Cemeteries
| Poorman Genealogy |
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| Sproul State Forest |
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| Trees, Trees and More Trees!!! |
If you like TREES . . . come to Renovo PA!
Or if you like Flaming Foliage . . . or riding your motorcycle for miles and miles with few stop signs or red lights, ride
through Renovo and the surrounding Sproul State Forest.
Here's a few more Renovo landmarks of interest . . .
Renovo High School
Tore down in 2007 Grandpa Richard Hall helped wire this RHS building when it was built. |
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Hyner Lookout when Didi, Diana and I visited in 2007. |
A few more Renovo links . . .
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