Editing Laporte, Pennsylvania (section)

==History==
The [[American Guide Series|Pennsylvania Guide]], compiled by the Writers' Program of the [[Works Progress Administration]], described Laporte in 1940 as:<ref>{{cite book |last=Federal Writers' Project |date=1940|edition= 1st |title=Pennsylvania: A Guide to the Keystone State |location=New York |publisher=Oxford University Press |pages=518–519}}</ref>{{Blockquote
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a mountain resort founded in 1847 and named for [[John Laporte (politician)|John Laporte]], Surveyor General of Pennsylvania, [and] formerly a lumbering and tannery center. Wide verandas front many of the houses. Among the deeds preserved in the courthouse here is one recorded in 1864, which transfers the ownership of a large tract of land on a mountain plateau four miles west of Laporte to 'Almighty God.' The plateau was once the site of the Celestia Community of [[Adventism|Adventists]], founded in 1853 by Peter Armstrong and his wife. A small group of Adventists, interested in Armstrong's plan for communalism in preparation for the expected coming of the Lord, maintained the experiment for several years. Forced by hardships and the dissatisfactions of other members to abandon it, Armstrong returned to [[Philadelphia]], after deeding the property  to the Lord. Eventually the land was taken over by the county for unpaid taxes.
|author=[[Federal Writers' Project]]|title="Part III: Tours"  |source=''Pennsylvania: A Guide to the Keystone State'' (1940)
}} The [[Sullivan County Courthouse (Pennsylvania)|Sullivan County Courthouse]] was added to the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1978.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>