Outside of Ralston and Marsh Creek, PA 14 heads through several small hamlets with rough cut farms and homesteads, where your likely to be greeted by the smell of cow manure, silage and wood smoke. Where people have goats tied out front and junk cars in the driveway, where nobody cares how black the smoke is from the trash you burn. Where people ride four wheelers in their front yard. My kind of folk, wild and free.
When I saw the sign for "Crogan House" I thought it was like one house off of US 15. But it towns out it's actually a township, pop. 974. It's still a rather isolated valley, although less so since the expressway came through to the north.
"The township is named for David Cogan, a pioneer who settled on Larrys Creek in 1825. Cogan was one of the few settlers in the area for many years, but wearying of his isolation, he left his homestead in 1842, as did a neighbor named Carter. Cogan's and Carter's houses were used by hunters and travellers. The name Cogan's House was given to the area, hence the name, Cogan House."
