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Venango County Pennsylvania Genealogy css3menu.com Home Cemetery Funeray Cemeteries Churches Chronicles homeweek 1925 Markers Marriages Masonic Oil Country Poor Farm Specials County Area Townships Twsp Surnames Census Directories Franklin, PA Government Oil City Pleasantville Plum Township Schools Small Towns Military News Newspapers Obituaries Photos Old Photos Photographs Press Photos Tintypes Resources County Maps Locations Lookups Links Queries- external links Rootsweb Queries PA-Roots Queries html menu by Css3Menu.com Venango County is located in the northwestern part of Pennsylvania and was created on March 12, 1800 from parts of Allegheny and Lycoming Counties and was attached to Crawford County until 1805. In 1839, part of the county became Clarion County (some Clarion records from 1800-1839 are found in Venango County). Additionally, part of Venango County was included in Forest County in 1848. The city of Franklin was selected as the county seat on March 26, 1808. It was originally laid out in 1795 at the site of Fort Franklin, which was built in 1787 and named after Dr. Benjamin Franklin. The town was incorporated as a borough in April 1828 and chartered as a city on April 4, 1868. Sheila Helser is coordinator for Venango County. This website is part of the PAGenWeb Project and the USGenWeb Project. venango.pa-roots.com/ website & graphics © Sheila Barr Helser - 2023 Materials on this website are the sole property of the webmaster and the original contributors/file donations. You may copy this information for your own personal research. Selling it commerically or reposting it online without permission from the author is prohibited. Hosted...