John Brown Raid. Captain John Cooke, one of Brown's followers, was captured near here on Oct. 25, 1859, nine days after the raid on Harper's Ferry. He was hanged December 16, two weeks after John Brown.

PA 233, 1 mile E of Mont Alto, across from PSU campus, Mont Alto, PA, United States

Ralph Elwood Brock. The first African American graduate of the Pennsylvania State Forest Academy here at Mont Alto and a member of the original class of 1906. A student & associate of Dr. J.T. Rothrock, Brock was Mont Alto State Forest Nursery superintendent until 1911 and then a successful consulting forester for public and private gardens and landscapes in New York City and Philadelphia.

Park St. (Rt. 233) at Slabtown Rd., entrance to PSU, Mont Alto, PA, United States

Pennsylvania State Forest Academy. The Commonwealth's first forestry school was established here at Mont Alto in 1903; named the State Forest Academy in 1905. In 1929, it merged with Pennsylvania State College; later Pennsylvania State University. Joseph T. Rothrock, the Commonwealth's first Forestry Commissioner, and Mira Lloyd Dock, noted activist and conservationist, were among its founders.

just off Park St. (Rt. 233) on Campus Dr., at entrance of PSU, Mont Alto, PA, United States