Wondering from where did the Smethport name came? This territory was named after Raymond and Theodore de Smeth, Dutch bankers and business agents, who brought a better financial panorama to the former residents. Settled back in the early 19th century, this municipality serves as the county seat of McKean County and it is today the home of a bit less than 1700 inhabitants. The numbers on this land show a much more very stable and promising economy, once compared to the financial situation of the nearest communities of Eldred, Port Allegany, Lewis Run, Bradford, and Mount Jewett, because only 1/10 of the population struggles with extreme conditions against a local average of 1/4 people living under the poverty line.

Hon. William Todd