REMARKS: An overlook provides a breathtaking scenic vista of both the Allegheny High Plateau topography and that of the adjacent Glaciated Low Plateau Conglomerates of the Burgoon Sandstone (Mississippian age) underlie the rim and, due to their high resistance to weathering, account for the higher plateau at this site.
151. French Azilum Overlook / 152. Quicks Bend
TOWNSHIP: Wyalusing
QUADRANGLE: Wyalusing
LOCATION: Ten miles southeast of Towanda along the Susquehanna River.
REMARKS: A breathtaking view of a large meander in the Susquehanna River; the site of the colony for refugees from the French Revolution, settled in the autumn of 1793. Marie Antoinette, the queen of France, and her two children were to come to this site.
Quicks Bend (152), 7.5 miles to the southeast in Wilmot Township, is a similar meander in the river.
REFERENCES: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission [1973], French Azilum, site of the colony for refugees from the French Revolution, built on the Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Trail of History, Harrisburg.
REMARKS: One of the highest mountain peaks in this physiographic province, the site affords an excellent view of the Glaciated Low Plateaus section. Outcrops of gray-green sandstones and siltstones of the Lock Haven Formation (Devonian age) are present at the site.
REFERENCE: Woodrow, D. L. [1968], Stratigraphy, structure and sedimentary patterns in the Upper Devonian of Bradford County, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Geological Survay, 4th ser., General Geology Report 54, 78 p.
REMARKS: Famous Iroquois "Prayer Rocks"; also a lookout on the Iroquois Warriors Path. Over this trail, which entered Pennsylvania along the upper Susquehanna, traveled the Six Nations' (New York) war parties against southern Indians, and their peace missions to Philadelphia. Alternating red and green, flat-lying sandstones and siltstones of the Catskill Formation (Devonian age) form a platform-like projection atop a high cliff overlooking a beautiful valley of the Susquehanna River. The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation has provided a scenic overlook and parking area at the site.