Men from the area served in the Revolutionary War and in Pennsylvania Volunteer regiments during the Civil War, including George Wagnor and Leanard Beck in the Revolutionary War; Colonel Jno. T. Fulton, Sergt. B. F. Miller, John Beck, David Kauffman, Jos. Shoemaker, Martin Orczeck, and David Honts of Company E, 206th Regiment, P.V.; Edward Turner, Solomon Wible, and Saml. Hodgkins of Company H, 168th Regiment, P.V.; Jacob H. Weaver, John M. Miller, Philip J. Miller, and J.H. Garland of Company I, 11th Regiment, P.V.; Andrew Bosh of Company B, 11th Regiment, P.V.; Harrison Seanor of Company E, 67 Regiment, P.V.; John Hoffer of Company E, 105 Regiment, P.V.; Albert F. Siegfried of Company F, 206 Regiment, P.V.; Nicholas Long, Peter Long, and Josiah Long of Company B, 28th Regiment, P.V.; John Bosh of Company F, 11 Regiment, P.V.; John W. Truxel of Company E, 206 Regiment, P.V.; and Jacob Wible of Company E, 206 Regiment, P.V.