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Christian & Dorothea Heess
Forksville, Pennsylvania
Historical Marker Database · William Fischer, Jr.
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Christian and Dorothea Heess, the first settlers at ElkLake, came from Stut[t]gart, Germany, and built a cabin on this site in 1852.
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