Our County was founded by Earl and Tobbs Diffel in 1772 after the two Diffel brothers, who emigrated to Pennsylvania to begin a new life of wealth and riches, made a running purchase with the Alamoose Native Americans.
Copying from the William Penn family the agreement they would trade blankets and trinkets called half-pennies for all land they could walk in a day. The diffels hired young marathon runners to run a big circle and then they hired surveyors to follow and mark and measure the boundary of their newly purchased land. The Alamooske owned no land but the Diffels hadn't a clue about that fact.
The runners were young and asked if their girlfriends could come too. The Diffels agreed and one fine Autumn morning the race was on. Soon however, on quiet woodland glades, or in a meadow of daisies, the runners lost time as they plowed more than wheat and corn. By evening there was only one runner left in the race...a true racist he never gave up. Sadly he ran a truncated circle and ended up nearly dead from a heart attack or stroke. His name was Danielle Corckette. But that is for a later chapter.
When the Diffels learned from their surveyors that the area was too small for towns and cities and water parks in the future, they were furious. So they did what white guys always did back then, they lied to the Malamooske and refused to pay the runners, some who started their own families a mere nine months later.
The Malamooske did what any Native American tribe would when dealing with the white man, they told them ok, the land is yours and gave the new owner a decorative shield.
Shall I hang it in my trophy room? Tobbs asked Earl. "You might wanna learn to use that shield first", said Chief Running Late as they concluded their business
This where the Diffels stood their ground, well, someone's ground.
