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.
Clearfield County is full of old and historical locations, buildings, and remnants of by gone eras. Come and cache Clearfield County to learn about its rich history through ghost towns, abandoned cemeteries, Civil War uprisings and its rich Native American presence.
In the early 1800's, Western Pennsylvania was still thick with forests and wildlife. The only humans that roamed the area were Native Americans and a few sturdy men and women that came for the hunting, as the deer, elk, bear and turkeys were plentiful. William Long "The King Hunter of NorthWestern PA" moved into this wilderness at a young age and settled with his parents in Jefferson County. In the Summer of 1804, William killed his first deer and was rewarded by his father with his first flintlock gun. Throughout the course of William's life, he killed hundreds of bear, deer, and elk. However, he made his living hunting wolves and panthers, as the bounty for killing them was $8 a piece at the time.
William married and had two sons, Jack and William, who learned hunting skills from their father. William Oscar "Os" Long was the eldest son of William and Amelia (Ellinger) Long. The Os Long Road in Moshannon State Forest signifies today the area in which young Os lived and worked most of his life. Beginning in 1872 he obtained work with Harley-Dean logging. He later procured 75 acres of timberland and erected a sawmill, which he operated for the rest of his life.
