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Courthouse history: Honesdale's first courthouse was built after the county seat was relocated from Bethany.

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Tri-County Independent WAYNE & PIKE - Charles A. Lindbergh, the famed aviator who was first to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1927, was descended from one of Wayne County, Pa.s early non-native settlers, and visited here at least once to look up his roots, in later years. Lindbergh also made headlines here a year after his solo transatlantic flight, when one of his planes crashed in the woods of Pike County, killing two aviators (Lindbergh was not aboard). A sketch of Lindbergh First, here is ...