French Azilum - Towanda, PA - Satellite Imagery Oddities on Waymarking.com

French Azilum - (visit link)
"Located on a bend in the Susquehanna River near present-day Towanda, Pennsylvania, Azilum provided refuge for a group of French exiles in the autumn of 1793."

John LaPorte, son of an original settler was born at French Azilum and built a summer house there which is still standing. He became a US Congressman from Pennsylvania.

"Some of the refugees, because of their loyalty to the King of France, had left France to escape imprisonment or death at the hands of the French Revolution. Others had fled the French colony of Santo Domingo (Haiti) to escape the carnage of mulatto and slave uprisings inspired by the declaration of equality of the radical French Assembly. According to an unverified story, even Marie Antoinette, the Queen of France, and her two children were to settle here."

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