The northern parts of the township are less heavily populated than the southern sections, which lie on U.S. Route 220 and serve as a suburb for Williamsport and Jersey Shore.

These early settlers banded together to provide law and order to a land that was wild and dangerous.

Brattan Caldwell, a native of County Kildare, Ireland, migrated to the Thirteen Colonies in 1770.

Caldwell married Elcy Hughes in the winter of 1775 on the south side of the river in Nippenose Township.

This part of the West Branch Susquehanna Valley was under the jurisdiction and protection of the colonial government of Pennsylvania.

[4] In the Revolutionary War, settlements throughout the Susquehanna valley were attacked by Loyalists and Native Americans allied with the British.

Homes and fields were abandoned, with livestock driven along and a few possessions floated on rafts on the river east to Muncy, then further south to Sunbury.

Sullivan's Expedition helped stabilize the area and encouraged resettlement, which continued after the war.

Brattan Caldwell and his family fled to Lancaster County and did not return to their land until after Sullivan's Expedition.

Caldwell obtained legal rights to the land he had settled in 1784 following the second Treaty of Fort Stanwix.

U.S. Route 220 crosses the southern part of the township as it travels the West Branch Susquehanna River valley.