French Azilum Historical Site 📍

uring the rench Revolution, rench aristocrats fled the extraordinary and prolonged violence in their country and came to the wilderness of present day Bradford County, Pennsylvania. These political refugees began settling into the “Azilumȁ in 1793. uring the colony’s 10-year existence, the settlement was a bustling gritty “frontierȁ settlement inhabited by nobles unaccustomed to the rigors of “commonȁ life. Both American frontiersmen from the area and rench aristocrats had contact with a social class they would have never met otherwise. The settlement slowly grew until it was abandoned in 1803. Azilum would remain lost in history until its revitalization that began in 1953. Azilum today is a historical and archaeological site where anthropologists and sightseers go to witness history first-hand.