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The calendar

The county by the day.

Every story on this site that can be pinned to an exact day, laid out month by month, plus the round-number anniversaries that fall this year. Built for anyone sitting down to write something and wondering what happened around now.

What is and is not here. 30 stories carry a date exact enough to put on a calendar; the rest are dated only to a year, or not at all. Where more than one story shares a day they are listed together rather than merged, because they are separate accounts of the same event. A story appearing here is not a claim that it happened in this county — open it and see.

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Round anniversaries in 2026

Every story whose year falls a round number of years before this one. 50 of them.

Years agoYearStory
2001826Colerain Forges Mansion
2001826Robb Farm: a Hartslog Valley homestead since 1826
2001826The Lyon mansion at Pennsylvania Furnace, twenty-eight rooms of limestone on the county line
2001826The Lyon Mansion at Pennsylvania Furnace
2001826Born In County Tyrone, 1775
1751851Born on the Rails
1751851Huntingdon Furnace, an iron plantation on Warriors Mark Run
1751851Monroe Furnace
1751851Mapleton Station, the depot that made a town
1751851Alexandria, the canal town the survey wanted on the National Register
1751851Alexandria Presbyterian Church, built 1851 and refaced in 1906
1751851Christ Reformed Church, the Greek Revival church on Main Street that lost a word from its stone
1751851Huntingdon Furnace, Ironmaster's Mansion
1751851Two Families, Twice Joined
1501876Purdue's Founder
1501876Rail on Canal Bed
1501876Jack's Narrows, 1879
1501876A Question We Cannot Settle, and Maybe You Can
1501876Who Named Mount Union
1501876The Poet at the Depot
1501876Brady: getting there: roads, rails and the river
1501876Henderson: the village, the store and the post office
1501876Juniata: getting there: roads, rails and the river
1501876Porter: the village, the store and the post office
1501876Spruce Creek: getting there: roads, rails and the river
1501876Spruce Creek: the village, the store and the post office
1501876Union: the first settlers
1501876Walker: the village, the store and the post office
1501876Robertsdale, the company town on Broad Top
1501876St. Mary's Covered Bridge, the county's last
1501876The Hatfield iron works below Alexandria
1501876Marklesburg: a wagon stop town on the Bedford Road
1501876Ten bridges and two tunnels in five miles of the Little Juniata
1501876The 1849 railroad bridge Huntingdon left behind
1501876Pulpit Rocks and the summer the survey got the mountains right
1501876The Evander P. Walker store on Main Street
1501876Tomahawk Marks In A Sugar Tree
1501876It Was Called A Sleeping Place
1501876A Hogshead Of Rum For Orbisonia
1501876The Bag Of Gold Still Unfound
1501876A Ferry near Mount Union
1251901Kasan and Song, 1909
1251901Mount Union Historic District
1251901Radiators From The Old Car Works
1001926The Rock: the Leas house on the Fort Shirley ground
1001926The concrete-block depot at Robertsdale
751951Eden Hill: the Seeds farm in Spruce Creek Township
501976The stone arches over Shavers Creek at Petersburg, built in 1889 and still carrying trains
501976The Willibrand Brewery at the west end of Alexandria
501976Greenwood Furnace, Stack No. 2