Good news! For 2018, we upgraded our geotrail to an official Geocaching GeoTour! Learn more about Pennsylvania's Clearfield County GeoTour, which offers a series of 5 related geocaching adventures: Forgotten Clearfield, Hometown Heroes, Waterways, Cemeteries, and Parks and Recreation. Codes are hidden within each cache. Collect 25 codes from across all 5 series and you qualify for a collectible prize. If you complete all 5 and have your passport validated, you can receive a trackable geocoin.
The original settlers of the Brady Township area were the Pennsylvania Dutch. Lebbeus Luther, for whom Luthersburg was named, was born on March 22, 1792, in Massachusetts, and came from Bradford County to Oldtown (now Clearfield) in 1813. He became a local agent for the real estate firm of Fox and Company and sold much of their holdings in Brady Township for which Luther paid $5 per acre for 140 acres. Benjamin Bonsall, who came from Perry County in 1824, bought the first tract. Frederick Zeigler came from York County about the same time and settled near the Indian spring. The first pioneer settler in the township was James Woodside in July 1785. A monument in his memory is located in Luthersburg’s Union Cemetery. A local Luthersburg belief is that James Woodside’s ghost left a secret cave at midnight, July 29 th, of each year and prowled around the neighborhood. Shugert, Frank Harry b. December 10, 1866 d. October 9, 1944 Major League Baseball Player. Played Major League baseball as a shortstop for eight seasons (1890 to 1895, 1897, 1901) with the Chicago Pirates of the Players League, the Pittsburgh Pirates, the St. Louis Brown Stockings (Cardinals), Philadelphia Phillies, Louisville Colonels and the Chicago White Sox. Complied decent career numbers of 745 Games Played, 804 Hits, 483 Runs, 22 Home Runs, 384 RBIs and a career .267 Batting Average. (Bio by: Fred King)