"JOHN REIST, variously spelled in Fayette County Records and elsewhere (RIST,RISTE, REIS, RISE, RISET, and RICE), was an early settler in the Township. He was a farmer, fisherman and ferryman. He was living at Broadford at the beginning of the 18th Century, and remained there for many years. He had a small plot of land cleared and his log dwelling stood on the bank where is now (1882), the pumping house of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company. This afterwards was replaced with a stone house. Below it lay the large canoe, or dug-out on which he ferried passengers to and fro across the Youghiegheny River. He also had an oil-mill which was in operation as late as 1825."[Note: From when this survey was done (assumed to be 1951)] "In 1951, this land is owned by Mark Fazenbaker, Emmet F. Fazenbaker, and Wilmer N. Fazenbaker, #645 Brown Street, Everson,Pennsylvania, who acquired the same premises from the H. C. Frick Coke Company, which Company mined the coal there from.
