Introducing...

Introducing... 'Clinton County Snapshots'... a blog about Clinton County, Pennsylvania. 

'Clinton County Snapshots' will contain photos along with short articles about Clinton County, Pennsylvania's:

• scenery
• local events
• places of interest
• local history
• local businesses
• real estate (I'm a real estate agent... search here for real estate in Clinton County, Pa and nearby)
• and of course the great outdoors  - the West Branch Susquehanna River, the Clinton County, Pa mountains, the area wildlife (if you love nature please visit my other nature blog, Nature Posts)

 Here is a snapshot showing part of Clinton County from a vista on Riansares Mountain.  This view is looking northwest into East End Nittany Valley and toward Lock Haven.  Bald Eagle Mountain is the long, dark ridge on the far side of the farm fields.... the most distant ridges are the Allegheny Mountains.

   Incidentally, how did this mountain, Riansares Mountain, get its name?  Well, in the mid 1800's, thousands of acres of Clinton County were owned by the Queen of Spain.  Her husband's name was Don Augustin Fernandez Munoz, Duke of Riansares.... and they, at one time, owned some of this mountain.

   Local legend has the Duke visiting the area in the spring of 1870.  Perhaps he actually stood right near where I took this picture.  Henry Shoemaker says, on pages 292 and 293 of  More Allegheny Episodes: Legends and Traditions, Old and New, Gathered Among the Pennsylvania Mountains,

"... Into the virgin forest on Cherry Run, they headed their horses up a steep trail to the summit of the highest point on the 50,000 acre domain, Mount Riansares. There on the windswept eminence, the party dismounted, and on the rocky crest, gazed at the vast regions north, south, east and west, great areas of which once had belonged Maria Cristina, Queen of Spain. The tall stranger, standing on the topmost crag, the April wind blowing his long cloak, his stern features softened as old memories seemed to flit through his mind... As his keen Spanish eyes took in the vast and imposing panorama of dark green hills -- it was before the days of forest fires and the pine and hemlock had not been cut, and the scope and majesty of it sunk into his breast, he exclaimed. "It is indeed a realm fit for a Queen...""

    Ah yes, you will see some more of the "scope and majesty" of the area in future posts... right here in 'Clinton County Snapshots'.

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