Shade Gap

The founding record

Shade Gap was incorporated as a borough on April 20, 1871, but the early records have been lost. In 1910 the population was 143, Shirleysburg, formerly known as Aughwick, Old Town and Fort Shirley, was settled by George Croghan prior to the French and Indian war. The town was laid out by Henry Warner and in its early days was the most important place in the county southeast of Huntingdon. Saw and grist mills were built at an early date. Every spring for many years the militia from the southeastern townships met at Shirleysburg for review and inspection. A factory for the manufacture of earthenware was established in 1866 by George W. Hawker, who also made drain tile and terra cotta. Dr. Loughran was the first physician, Shirleysburg was incorporated as a borough on April 3, 1837, with John Lutz as the first chief burgess. The completion of the East Broad Top railroad through the place in 1873 gave a new impetus to business and for a time the population showed considerable increase. Rival towns then offered better inducements for the investment of capital and for the last half a century Shirleysburg has barely held its own. In 1910 the population was 256, a slight decrease under that of 1900. Three Springs, a station on the East Broad Top railroad in the southern part of the county, was laid out in the spring of 1843 and was first called Scottsville, for General Winfield Scott. John W. Jordan, ed., History of the Juniata Valley and Its People (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing, 1913) · character 234,889 of the scanned text

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