The Indian trail from the "West Branch" to Nescopeck crossed the "divide" several miles above Jerseytown on of the early surveys locates an Indian town about the point where Lycoming, Montour and Columbia meet, and therefore partly in Madison township and even after the whites had begun to occupy the soil in considerable numbers, the savage clung tenaciously to a region that had once been a favorite hunting ground. The contribution of this people to the history of the region about its source is not, however, confined to the single circumstance of bestowing upon it this name. "Frozen Duck" is the literal meaning of the Indian designation, Chillisquaque.
This is the only area of any extent in the county drained by a tributary of the "West Branch." The latter here takes its rise, and flows in Madison, through the fertile Jerseytown valley. It extends in a direction nearly parallel with the course of Little Fishing creek, and defines the basins of that stream and of the Chillisquaque. A striking feature of the topography is the "divide," a continuation of a spur from the Muncy hills. This township embraces that part of Columbia county west of Little Fishing creek and Pine township, north of Hemlock, east and south of the adjoining counties of Montour and Lycoming. History of Columbia and Montour Counties, Pennsylvania Chapter XV, Madison and Pine Townships, History of Columbia and MontourĬounties, Pennsylvania Chapter XV - Madison and Pine Townships
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