Wood

The founding record

Wood township, the youngest in the county, was taken from Carbon. The result at that election was tie vote and on January 5, 1905, the court ordered another election for February 21st following, when a majority of the electors expressed themselves in favor of a new township. On March 6, 1905, the court ordered the division of Carbon township, from the eastern half of which should be erected the township of Wood, the line running a short distance east of Broad Top City. In Huntingdon county there are eighteen boroughs, viz. : Alexandria, Birmingham, Broad Top City, Cassville, Coalmont, Dudley, Huntingdon, Mapleton, Marklesburg, Mill Creek, Mount Union, Orbisonia, Petersburg, Rock Hill, Saltillo, Shade Gap, Shirleysburg and Three Springs. Of these boroughs Huntingdon is the oldest and, being the county seat, stands first in importance. The first white claimant to the land where Huntingdon now stands was Hugh Crawford, who was an ensign in Captain Hamilton's company at the time of the French and Indian war. He claimed to have made an improvement here about I753i but just how he acquired title to the land is not clear. John W. Jordan, ed., History of the Juniata Valley and Its People (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing, 1913) · character 209,703 of the scanned text

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