CLEARFIELD, Pa. — The clear fields pioneers found when they first settled the area were the genesis of the name of a new county formed by and Act of Assembly by Thomas McKean, the second governor of Pennsylvania, on March 26, 1804, Clearfield. But Clearfield didn’t begin there. It began with the first settler to the area, Wilhelm (William) Bloom, who came to the area by following the Shamokin Path to the mouth of Anderson Creek in 1796 where he …
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