Editing Callensburg, Pennsylvania (section)

==History==
Callensburg was surveyed in 1826, by Hugh Callen, Sr., who commissioned a young surveyor named Sidle Lobaugh to lay out a town on part of the 300 acres he had purchased in 1812. Callen anticipated the building of the [[Pennsylvania Canal]] through that region, and while the eventual route of the canal did not pass near Callensburg, the area still attracted enough settlers to form a borough. It was incorporated in 1851, and held the first town election on March 21, 1851.<ref name="Callensburg History">{{cite web | url=http://history.rays-place.com/pa/clar-callensburg.htm | title=History of Clarion County, Pennsylvania | editor=A. J. Davis | publisher=D. Mason and Co., Syracuse 1887 | accessdate=October 4, 2015 }}</ref>

In laying out the town, Mr. Callen reserved three acres for building a Presbyterian Church and cemetery, and deeded an open lot north of Main street, where the town spring was located, to the town. He built his house south of [[Licking Township, Clarion County, Pennsylvania|Licking Township]], where local legend claimed there was a large poplar tree:<ref name="Callensburg History"/>
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"This tree grew from a twig used by Mr. Callen as a riding whip. On his return from church at Concord one Sunday he stuck the whip into the ground, and this lone poplar stands today as a monument to the piety of him who planted it."
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