Huntingdon County Information Page

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.

Today’s date is marked when JavaScript is running; the whole calendar is here either way.

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Round anniversaries in 2026

Every story whose year falls a round number of years before this one. 15 of them.

Years agoYearStory
1751851Born on the Rails
1501876Purdue's Founder
1501876Rail on Canal Bed
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
1251901Kasan and Song, 1909