Historic Smethport Mansion District

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Historic opulence

Vast lumber assets, oil reserves, and the railroads beginning in the 1870s caused McKean County’s economy to boom, and money flowed into Smethport, the governmental seat and financial center of the county. Smethport’s Mansion District was in full construction by the 1880's.

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The Historic Smethport Mansion District includes properties such as the home of Henry Hamlin, once the wealthiest private banker in the United States; the Melbury House, at one time used as a stopover on road to freedom for slaves on the Underground Railroad; the home of Dr. S.D. Freeman, a famed surgeon during the American Civil War of 1861, and many more! You can take a tour.

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