Franklin County, Pennsylvania
Updated: January 25, 2010

      The Oliver Anderson farm is located in the area known as the "Corner" five miles southwest of Mercersburg in Montgomery Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. The farm is located on a sharp curve in the road at 11300 Punch Bowl Road and the lane to the farm is known as Anne Lane. The farm is at the base of the North Mountain where the Anderson Path begins and goes up over the North Mountain and down into the Little Cove to the village of Sylvan. Part of the farm is currently being developed into small family homes.

OLIVER ANDERSON -  (information from Elizabeth Wolff's book "Early History and Genealogy of the Anderson-McCullough-McCune Families and Related Lines of Franklin County, Pa., pg 10, 11)

     Coming from the north of Ireland to America early, the family, it is thought, settled in Newcastle County for a number of years, then members of the family came to Cumberland County, Pa., as early as 1764 in what was known as the "Conococheague Settlement", which later became Franklin County.  A portion of this county is designated the "Corner" so named from the contour of the mountains in the area.  This part of the county was chosen as the future home of the Andersons, and here members of that clan spent their entire lives. He was a farmer by occupation, taking up three hundred and twenty acres of land from the Government, part of which was mountain land.  It was then in Cumberland County.  His farm was six miles southwest of Mercersburg.

 

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