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| Story | Place | Sources |
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| "At no time were the Bricktowners dangerous", 1927Mount Union's nickname was not something the town only called itself. In the winter of 1927 the Democratic Watchman of Bellefonte, eighty miles away… | Mount Union borough | 2 sources |
| 1810 Turnpike RouteDid you know? You can still drive a piece of the 1810s turnpike, and it still has the same potholes people complained about two hundred years… | Huntingdon borough, Alexandria borough | 2 sources |
| 1908 Mount Union Baseball Team1908, a year into the boom, and Mount Union had a baseball team. These young men, many the sons of immigrant families who came for the brick work,… | Mount Union borough | 3 sources |
| 213 Shirley StreetThis was the Harbison-Walker manager's house, at 213 Shirley Street. The federal study of these towns explains what you are looking at without… | Mount Union borough | 2 sources |
| 330 Acres a YearDid you know? The furnaces at Greenwood ran on charcoal, and it took around 330 acres of forest a year to make it. Colliers burned the wood on… | Jackson township | 3 sources |
| 34th PA Reserves: 209 LostTwo companies of Huntingdon County men marched out in the summer of 1861 with the Fifth Pennsylvania Reserves, and the county can now be told what… | County wide | 2 sources |
| 35 Tons Of Sand A Day For BottlesDid you know? Sand for bottles, fruit jars and window glass was quarried out of a ridge near Mill Creek. The Juniata Sand Company had a quarry in… | Mill Creek borough, Brady township | 1 source |
| A Barn in Tell TownshipA barn in Tell township, photographed in July 2016 and released into the public domain outright. The record says nothing more than that, and neither… | Tell township | 1 source |
| A Barrier BrokenDid you know? In 1932 Nancy Slaughter Lee became the first African American student to graduate from Juniata College, and she did it in her own… | Huntingdon borough | 2 sources |
| A City that Wasn'tDid you know? A Huntingdon County town was once sold off by lottery, and the lottery is a big part of why it never became the city it was drawn up to… | Birmingham borough, Warriors Mark township | 1 source |
| A County That ReadsThe best free thing on a hot afternoon is the public library, and the county library runs summer programs to keep children going till September. A… | County wide | 2 sources |
| A Drink Of Whisky For Every StoneDid you know? Warriors Mark had a schoolhouse as early as 1790, and an old settler said the stone one that replaced it cost a drink of whisky for… | Warriors Mark township | 1 source |
| A Face from Naroden GlasGeorgi Vasilev, from the village of Krushoradi in the Lerin district, lived in Mount Union, Pa. This portrait appeared in Naroden Glas, the Bulgarian… | Mount Union borough | no source list |
| A Ferry near Mount UnionDid you know? The crossing at Drake's Ferry, just above Mount Union, went from a ferry to a series of bridges. Samuel Drake established the ferry in… | Mount Union borough | 7 sources |
| A Furnace With 40,000 AcresDid you know? By 1819 the Huntingdon Furnace estate had spread over an area of more than forty thousand acres. Many stoves were cast there, and in… | Franklin township | 1 source |
| A Hogshead Of Rum For OrbisoniaDid you know? One of the first storekeepers near Orbisonia was buying his rum by the hogshead from Baltimore in 1773. George Irvin settled near… | Orbisonia borough, Cromwell township | 1 source |
| A Hollow Tree For A Mill HoopDid you know? As early as 1774, Jacob and Josiah Minor ran a grist mill on the Little Juniata, where the Barree Iron Works later stood, so simple… | Porter township, Logan township | 1 source |
| A Mount Union street, 1907A Mount Union street in 1907, dirt road, board sidewalks, and a town in the middle of an explosion. The brickyards were hiring every hand they could… | Mount Union borough | 2 sources |
| A Prisoner Burned With The JailDid you know? The log jail Huntingdon County built on lot No. 41 burned with a prisoner inside. On August 25, 1791, under the agreement that made… | Huntingdon borough | 1 source |
| A Question We Cannot Settle, and Maybe You CanThis stone house stands on West Water Street near Division. The federal survey records it as the John Sharrar House and dates it to about 1841. The… | Mount Union borough | 5 sources |
| A Rock City On Warrior RidgeDid you know? The state geologist's 1885 report on this county describes a rock city on Warrior Ridge. Wolf Rocks, near Mr. A. P. Wilson's place, is… | Walker township | 1 source |
| A Silver Medal For Lake ErieDid you know? A Henderson Township man volunteered on Commodore Perry's squadron on Lake Erie, and Pennsylvania gave him a silver medal for it. In… | Henderson township | 1 source |
| Aetna Explosion 1916Did you know? The building that killed six men at Mount Union had been catching fire all summer, and the paper reported it as routine local… | Mount Union borough | 4 sources |
| Alexandria High SchoolMain Street at Church Street, Alexandria borough, recorded by the Historic American Buildings Survey. The caption below is the survey's: the… | Alexandria borough | 1 source |
| Alexandria Made Silica Brick TooDid you know? Mount Union was not the only town in this county making silica brick. Alexandria had a plant too. Federal Refractories built a plant… | Alexandria borough, Porter township | 2 sources |
| Alexandria Memorial Public LibraryThe federal survey photographed this building at Hartslog and Main Streets in Alexandria borough. The plate below is the survey's own, and the… | Alexandria borough | 1 source |
| Alexandria Presbyterian Church, built 1851 and refaced in 1906The Alexandria Presbyterian Church stands on the northeast corner of Hartslog Street and Shelton Avenue, and its doorway carries its own history in… | Alexandria borough | 4 sources |
| Alexandria's first railroad station, a square frame depot on Shelton AvenueA square frame depot stood on the north side of Shelton Avenue, between Hartslog Street and the old canal basin, when the Historic American Buildings… | Alexandria borough | 5 sources |
| Alexandria, the canal town the survey wanted on the National RegisterThe Historic American Buildings Survey's overview of Alexandria, HABS PA-5407, is the town-wide report of the 1988 canal-towns project; the… | Alexandria borough | 4 sources |
| An Airplane View of the County SeatA postcard photographer went up over Huntingdon and shot the borough looking west, with the Juniata and its bridges running away below. It was… | Huntingdon borough | 1 source |
| Aughwick Rod and Gun ClubBeyond the brick plants and the railroads, there's the Aughwick, the creek that makes this valley livable. The Rod and Gun Club connected people to… | Mount Union borough | 2 sources |
| Baker Bridge, a 1917 concrete arch over Great Trough CreekA mile east of Newburg, where an unpaved township road heads toward the Rothrock State Forest, a concrete bridge carries township route 370 across… | Todd township | 2 sources |
| Barree Forge, the ironworks across the river from BarreeOn the north bank of the Little Juniata, opposite the village of Barree and two miles north of Alexandria, a field holds the remains of an early… | Porter township | 3 sources |
| Barree: mills, forges and the iron tradeFrom the county histories, on Barree township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1883, including the spelling of the day and the… | Barree township | 1 source |
| Barree: the first congregationsFrom the county histories, on Barree township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1883, including the spelling of the day and the… | Barree township | 1 source |
| Beacon Lodge: A Mount Union Address in Another CountyThe Pennsylvania Lions Beacon Lodge Camp posts its letters to Mount Union, and nearly everyone here would tell you it is ours. It is not, quite. The… | Shirley township | 3 sources |
| Big Boy Crossed The CountyDid you know? The world's largest operating steam locomotive crossed Huntingdon County this summer. Union Pacific's Big Boy 4014 came through on… | Mount Union borough, Mapleton borough, Mill Creek borough, Huntingdon borough, Spruce Creek township | 1 source |
| Bird's-eye view, 1906Mount Union in 1906, as Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler drew it. Fowler, who lived from 1842 to 1922, made bird's-eye views of towns all over the country.… | Mount Union borough | 2 sources |
| Born In County Tyrone, 1775Did you know? William Robb was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, in December 1775, and settled in Woodcock Valley in 1826. In 1806 he married Mary… | Walker township | 2 sources |
| Born on the RailsDid you know? Mapleton was named by a railroad company, for trees. The 1966 centennial history puts it plainly: when the Pennsylvania Railroad was… | Mapleton borough | 3 sources |
| Braddock's Harsh ReplyDid you know? In 1755 a Lenape chief asked a British general a direct question, and the answer helped set this whole frontier on fire. Shingas asked… | County wide | 2 sources |
| Brady: getting there: roads, rails and the riverFrom the county histories, on Brady township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1876, including the spelling of the day and the… | Brady township | 1 source |
| Broad Top StrikeDid you know? By July 11, 1920, about three thousand bituminous coal miners in the Broad Top field were idle. The Associated Press carried it out of… | Broad Top City borough, Carbon township | 4 sources |
| Brumbaugh HomesteadHalf a mile southeast of the junction of Township Route 419 with Route 26, at the spillway crest of Raystown Lake, the nomination placed a stone… | Penn township | 2 sources |
| Caldecott Dual ChampDid you know? A two time Caldecott Medal winner was born right here in Huntingdon. Chris Raschka was born in Huntingdon on March 6, 1959. The… | Huntingdon borough | 2 sources |
| Cassville's Name EvolutionDid you know? Cassville went by two names at the same time for about fifty years, and the name it finally kept was picked by three men, not by the… | Cassville borough, Cass township | 1 source |
| Christ Reformed Church, the Greek Revival church on Main Street that lost a word from its stoneChrist Reformed Church, the German Reformed Church when it was built, fronts the south side of Main Street in Alexandria about 20 feet west of Church… | Alexandria borough | 3 sources |
| Christian Oyer Jr. HouseAbout three quarters of a mile from Saulsburg, on a gravel road in Barree Township, stands a two story stone farmhouse that the National Register… | Barree township | 2 sources |
| Church Street at Walnut GrovePennsylvania Route 475, called Church Street here, looking north at Walnut Grove Church Road in Springfield township. Photographed in October… | Springfield township | 1 source |
| Clay: the first settlersFrom the county histories, on Clay township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1883, including the spelling of the day and the… | Clay township | 1 source |
| Coalmont in the county paper, 1871 to 1874From the newspaper the county was reading at the time, on Coalmont borough. The Huntingdon Journal did not write essays about Coalmont; it carried a… | Coalmont borough | 3 sources |
| Col. Isaac Rogers Post, OrbisoniaWhen the Civil War veterans of the southern end of the county organised themselves, they did it under the name of a colonel. The Grand Army of the… | Orbisonia borough | 1 source |
| Colerain Forge HouseThe Colerain Forge House stands off State Route 45 in Franklin township, and was recorded by the Historic American Buildings Survey. Federal survey… | Franklin township | 1 source |
| Colerain Forges MansionOn the west side of Route 45, three quarters of a mile south of Franklinville, a white T-shaped house stands in a grove of old trees on a bend of… | Franklin township | 2 sources |
| Company Housing (HABS View 2)The federal survey team walked Mount Union as a company town, where the housing was owned by the factory, the streets were laid out by the factory… | Mount Union borough | 2 sources |
| Company Housing (HABS View 3)The HABS surveyors walked every street of Mount Union's company housing, documenting row houses, duplexes, and family homes, all owned by the… | Mount Union borough | 1 source |
| Company Town HousingCompany housing from the HABS survey, the brick companies didn't just employ workers, they housed them. Entire neighborhoods were built and owned by… | Mount Union borough | 1 source |
| Congressman for Twenty-Two YearsDid you know? Huntingdon sent the same man to Congress for twenty two years, and he never came home from the job. Richard Murray Simpson was born in… | Huntingdon borough | 1 source |
| Corbin BridgeTwo miles southeast of Huntingdon, Township Road 428 crosses the Raystown Branch on a one-lane suspension bridge half a mile from the branch's… | Juniata township | 2 sources |
| Correspondence from 1906November 22, 1906, Roy Jones sends a postcard to Miss Maud, telling her about hunting rabbits in Mount Union. Fifteen rabbits, a shared meal, and a… | Mount Union borough | 3 sources |
| Coulter School, 1897Coulter School on December 29, 1897, Miss Minnie Jones and her pupils gathered for a photograph. This is Mount Union before the brickyards changed… | Mount Union borough | 3 sources |
| Creosote River of TiesThe Pennsylvania Railroad's first creosote tie-treating plant stood northeast of Mount Union along the Juniata River, opened just before 1909 when… | Mount Union borough | 1 source |
| Cromwell Township 1836Did you know? Cromwell Township is named for a man who was already dead when they named it, and who had put up the first iron furnace west of the… | Cromwell township, Orbisonia borough | 3 sources |
| Crum Corner ReinventionsOne corner, many lives. The Crum building stands on the corner of Jefferson Street and Railroad Avenue, and before it there was a hotel called the… | Mount Union borough | 2 sources |
| Cutting the Route 22 BypassDid you know? The stretch of Route 22 that runs past Huntingdon today was built in the late 1940s. Federal bridge records date its bridges to 1948… | Smithfield township, Huntingdon borough | 3 sources |
| Defrehn Chair FactoryIn 1889, William DeFrehn and his sons arrived in Mount Union from Williamsport in Maryland to start a chair factory. A flood had damaged their… | Mount Union borough | 1 source |
| Devonian Rock Beside the Route 26 RampAn exposure of the Devonian Brallier Formation, cut open where the ramp carries traffic from Route 22 west onto Route 26 north, facing roughly… | Henderson township | 1 source |
| Dickens on the CanalCharles Dickens came through this valley in 1842, on a canal boat, and he wrote it down. He had ridden a coach from Baltimore to York and on to… | Mount Union borough | 2 sources |
| Downtown Mount UnionDowntown Mount Union in its prime, grocery stores, furniture dealers, clothiers, theaters, and banks all competing for boom-town money. Every… | Mount Union borough | 2 sources |
| Downtown Street (HABS View 2)Street-level perspectives reveal how company towns felt to people who lived in them, the scale of housing, the proximity to neighbors, the… | Mount Union borough | 1 source |
| Downtown Street (HABS View)The HABS survey wasn't just housing, it captured downtown streets, commercial blocks, and the public spaces of Mount Union during the brick… | Mount Union borough | 1 source |
| Drake's Ferry Before the BridgesBefore every bridge there was a ferry, and this one carried the road that made the town. Samuel Drake, Sr., a New Jersey man who had served in the… | Mount Union borough | 5 sources |
| Dublin: the first congregationsFrom the county histories, on Dublin township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1913, including the spelling of the day and the… | Dublin township | 1 source |
| Dublin: the first settlersFrom the county histories, on Dublin township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1883, including the spelling of the day and the… | Dublin township | 1 source |
| Dublin: where the name comes fromFrom the county histories, on Dublin township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1883, including the spelling of the day and the… | Dublin township | 1 source |
| Dudley: getting there: roads, rails and the riverFrom the county histories, on Dudley borough. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1883, including the spelling of the day and the… | Dudley borough | 1 source |
| East Broad Top in town, 1950An East Broad Top train working Mount Union in 1950. This town was the northern end of the narrow gauge, a big dual-gauge yard and a coal cleaning… | Mount Union borough | no source list |
| East Broad Top Locomotive, 1907The East Broad Top locomotive working Mount Union in 1907, a narrow-gauge workhorse hauling coal from the Broad Top mines to the PRR main line. The… | Mount Union borough | 3 sources |
| East Broad Top NO. 12This Baldwin locomotive, built in 1911, worked the East Broad Top for nearly 50 years. When the EBT quit carrying freight and passengers in 1956,… | Mount Union borough | 2 sources |
| East Broad Top RailroadThe East Broad Top Railroad's shops stand on Meadow Street in Rockhill Furnace, a middle point on a three-foot-gauge line that ran from Mount Union… | Rockhill borough, Orbisonia borough, Mount Union borough, Shirleysburg borough, Saltillo borough | 3 sources |
| East Broad Top Railroad Foundry, Rockhill FurnaceThe foundry at the East Broad Top shops in Rockhill Furnace is where the railroad cast its own iron and brass. The Historic American Engineering… | Rockhill borough | 3 sources |
| East Broad Top Railroad Machine Shop, Rockhill FurnaceThe machine shop at Rockhill Furnace is the building the East Broad Top Railroad used to repair its own locomotives. The Historic American… | Rockhill borough | 4 sources |
| East Broad Top Railroad, Sideling Hill TunnelThe survey's cover sheet for the Sideling Hill Tunnel, HAER PA-127-F, places it in the Kimmel vicinity and holds photographs and color copies with no… | Clay township | 5 sources |
| Eden Hill: the Seeds farm in Spruce Creek TownshipEden Hill Farm, in rural Spruce Creek Township in the north of Huntingdon County, was placed on the National Register as the Hugh D. and Martha S.… | Spruce Creek township | 2 sources |
| First U.S. Coke SmeltingDid you know? There is a furnace site on Big Trough Creek with a real claim on American industrial history. John Savage of Philadelphia leased the… | Todd township | 3 sources |
| Flood Mark on the Planing MillLook at the planing mill after the flood of March 1936 and you can see exactly how high the water came. The mark is on the building. Mount Union had… | Mount Union borough | 2 sources |
| Flood of '36 Devastated HCDid you know? The flood of 1936 crested over Huntingdon County in the dark, in the small hours of March 18. And on two of our creeks it still did not… | Marklesburg borough, Petersburg borough, Orbisonia borough | 2 sources |
| Floodwaters, 1936The St. Patrick's Day Flood of March 1936 put water where the town stood. Streets became rivers, buildings became obstacles, and the disaster was so… | Mount Union borough | 3 sources |
| Frehn BridgeTwo miles west of State Route 475 in southern Springfield Township, a township road numbered 313 crosses Sideling Hill Creek on a steel bridge the… | Springfield township | 2 sources |
| G. W. Radle Store, Mount UnionThe G. W. Radle store in Mount Union sold farm supplies. Farm Equipment and Farm Supplies, the signs read in the window glass. A Mail Pouch… | Mount Union borough | no source list |
| Ganister Hill and the new AmericansA 1922 advertisement for the Stoianoff Brothers of Mount Union, printed in Naroden Glas, the Bulgarian-Macedonian newspaper in America. Ganister… | Mount Union borough | 1 source |
| Georgi VasilevGeorgi Vasilev, pictured in Naroden Glas, one face among the thousands of Balkan immigrants who came to Mount Union for the brickyards. These… | Mount Union borough | 1 source |
| Governor from a ValleyDid you know a governor of Pennsylvania was teaching in this county's one-room schools before he was old enough to vote? Martin Grove Brumbaugh was… | Penn township | 3 sources |
| Grace United Methodist, Three SpringsThree Springs borough's first photograph here, taken from Pennsylvania Route 994, which is Hudson Street where it runs through the town. The borough… | Three Springs borough | 1 source |
| Greenwood FurnaceFive miles east of McAlevys Fort on Route 305, in the northeastern part of the county, the stacks of Greenwood Furnace, one rebuilt and one a ruin,… | Jackson township | 2 sources |
| Greenwood Furnace RailroadsDid you know? Iron made in Huntingdon County left here by wagon and came back as railroad wheels. By the early 1880s Greenwood Furnace was topping… | Jackson township | 1 source |
| Greenwood Furnace, Stack No. 2Five miles east of McAlevys Fort on Route 305, the second of Greenwood Furnace's two stacks stands with its four arches open, and the Historic… | Jackson township | 4 sources |
| Greenwood Lake DamGreenwood Furnace State Park, as the survey form described it in 1986, was an area of 334 acres inside Rothrock State Forest. The Pennsylvania… | Jackson township | 2 sources |
| Hackman, the Man Who Built Two TownsThis is Clinton V. Hackman. Charles H. Welch's history of Mount Union, published in 1909, prints this portrait and captions it “Superintendent… | Mount Union borough | 3 sources |
| Happy Independence DayHappy Fourth of July from Historic Mount Union! An American Legion parade rolls through town in the 1940s. This town sent its sons to both World… | Mount Union borough | no source list |
| Harbison-WalkerThe plant that built Bricktown. The W. H. Haws Company of Johnstown began the Mount Union works in 1899 and sold the whole property to… | Mount Union borough | 1 source |
| Harbison-Walker Plant at Full Steam, 1909We have shared photographs of the Harbison-Walker plant abandoned, silent under the federal survey cameras. This is the plant alive. It is 1909.… | Mount Union borough | 1 source |
| Harbison-Walker Refractories CompanyThe plant that started Mount Union's refractory brick industry stood at the west end of West Shirley Street, on a flat expanse at the foot of Jacks… | Mount Union borough | 2 sources |
| Harbison-Walker Works (HAER View 2)The Harbison-Walker complex sprawled across Mount Union, kilns, molding rooms, storage, rail yards, all connected. One photo can't capture it. The… | Mount Union borough | 1 source |
| Harbison-Walker Works (HAER View 3)The HAER photographers understood that documenting Harbison-Walker meant capturing the whole ecosystem, not just the main plant, but all the… | Mount Union borough | 1 source |
| Harbison-Walker Works (HAER View 4)The HAER survey is an archive of industrial architecture before it all fell apart. These photographs preserve what was built, how it worked, and why… | Mount Union borough | 1 source |
| Harry Corbin Post, MapletonMapleton's Civil War veterans organised in December 1880 with twenty-one men. By the time Africa's county history went to press three years later the… | Mapleton borough | 1 source |
| He Built The Third House In TownDid you know? Anthony Beaver, a carpenter, was one of the founders of Marklesburg and built the third house in the village. He and his wife Sarah,… | Marklesburg borough | 1 source |
| He Found Gold, Then Ran The CountyDid you know? A Hopewell Township man whose father farmed at Weaver's Bridge was one of the three men who first found gold in paying quantities in… | Hopewell township | 1 source |
| Henderson: mills, forges and the iron tradeFrom the county histories, on Henderson township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1883, including the spelling of the day and… | Henderson township | 1 source |
| Henderson: the first congregationsFrom the county histories, on Henderson township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1913, including the spelling of the day and… | Henderson township | 1 source |
| Henderson: the village, the store and the post officeFrom the county histories, on Henderson township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1876, including the spelling of the day and… | Henderson township | 1 source |
| Higgins Fought OnDid you know? Four of the ten companies in the 125th Pennsylvania came out of Huntingdon County. The 125th was raised in July and the first part of… | County wide | 3 sources |
| Hopewell Township in Late FallAnother frame from Ron Shawley's November 2014 run around the Raystown Lake country. He gave the whole series one caption and named no township, so… | Hopewell township | 1 source |
| Hopewell: getting there: roads, rails and the riverFrom the county histories, on Hopewell township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1883, including the spelling of the day and… | Hopewell township | 1 source |
| Horace PorterDid you know? Horace Porter was born in Huntingdon on 15 April 1837, and he has a Medal of Honor. He earned it at Chickamauga on 20 September 1863,… | Huntingdon borough | 1 source |
| Horse power, pre-1903Fire protection in Mount Union before 1903, when getting to the blaze depended on hooves and volunteer grit. The date is exact. Charles H. Welch,… | Mount Union borough | 1 source |
| HUNT Tower, the Switch Tower the Flood BuiltHUNT Tower stands just north of the tracks at the west end of the old station platforms in Huntingdon, where Fourth and Fifth Streets meet Allegheny.… | Huntingdon borough | 4 sources |
| Huntingdon Built RailcarsDid you know? Huntingdon once built railroad cars, and the best part of the story is that the works had already failed once. In 1872 Orbison and… | Huntingdon borough | 1 source |
| Huntingdon County LibraryThe Huntingdon County Library has been a free door for generations, and it is at 330 Penn Street. It is more than shelves. There is a makerspace you… | Huntingdon borough | 2 sources |
| Huntingdon FurnaceDid you know? The iron works in Franklin Township was not one man's idea. It took three, and each of them brought something different. The county… | Franklin township | 1 source |
| Huntingdon Furnace, an iron plantation on Warriors Mark RunTwo miles northwest of the Colerain Mansion in Franklin Township, a stone blast furnace stack stands at the bottom of a steep incline at the edge of… | Franklin township | 2 sources |
| Huntingdon Furnace, Ironmaster's MansionThe ironmaster's mansion at Huntingdon Furnace, two miles from Colerain Mansion in the Franklinville vicinity, was photographed by the Historic… | Franklin township | 4 sources |
| Huntingdon HeroDid you know a Huntingdon man commanded the cavalry that stopped J.E.B. Stuart on the last day of Gettysburg? David McMurtrie Gregg was born at… | Huntingdon borough | 3 sources |
| Huntingdon WreckDid you know? Just before dawn on May 1, 1947, two sixteen foot sheets of steel shifted on an open gondola car of a westbound freight west of… | Huntingdon borough | 3 sources |
| Huntingdon's old town, 521 buildings between the river and the hillThe Huntingdon Borough Historic District takes in 521 buildings at the southern end of the borough, bounded roughly by Allegheny, Ninth, Moore and… | Huntingdon borough | 2 sources |
| Huntingdon's Steamroller ComposerDid you know? The keyboard player on those Mannheim Steamroller records was born in Huntingdon. Jackson Berkey was born here on May 24, 1942. He… | Huntingdon borough | 2 sources |
| Inside the KilnThis is what you faced if you took a kiln job at Harbison-Walker, extreme heat, constant monitoring, days of firing to get the brick right. The work… | Mount Union borough | 1 source |
| It Was Called A Sleeping PlaceDid you know? The ground where McConnellstown stands is mentioned in very early records as a sleeping place. The route of travel in 1748 and before… | Walker township | 1 source |
| It Was the CountessDid you know? We shared a while back that Huntingdon was named for an English town and not for a countess. A reader sent us back to the books. The… | Huntingdon borough | 2 sources |
| Jack's Narrows, 1879Jack's Narrows in 1879, in an engraving of the gorge where the Juniata breaks through Jacks Mountain. The rocks are the reason there is a town here… | Shirley township | 2 sources |
| JACK'S NARROWS, 1940sJack's Narrows in the 1940s, the same rocks, the same river, the same dramatic landscape that drew people to the valley in the first place. While… | Shirley township | 3 sources |
| Jack's Spring Then and Now 1909In 1909, when Charles H. Welch published his History of Mount Union, the town was already nostalgic. He printed Jack's Spring twice: as it used to… | Mount Union borough | 2 sources |
| Jacks Mountain From Southern Brady TownshipUnited States Route 22 looking south, just north-east of Mapleton in the far south of Brady township, with Jacks Mountain standing across the… | Brady township | 1 source |
| Jackson Center, in Miller TownshipStanding Stone Road, Pennsylvania Route 26, coming north into the village of Jackson Center in Miller township, looking east-north-east between… | Miller township | 1 source |
| July 4th Parade, 1906July 4th, 1906, Mount Union's still-small town comes out for a parade. The brick boom hasn't fully arrived yet, but the traditions are there: bands,… | Mount Union borough | 3 sources |
| Juniata Canal 1832Did you know? When Pennsylvania opened the Juniata canal, the boat that did it started from Huntingdon. On November 27, 1832, the packet boat John… | Huntingdon borough | 1 source |
| Juniata: getting there: roads, rails and the riverFrom the county histories, on Juniata township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1876, including the spelling of the day and the… | Juniata township | 1 source |
| Juniata: mills, forges and the iron tradeFrom the county histories, on Juniata township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1883, including the spelling of the day and the… | Juniata township | 1 source |
| Juniata: the first congregationsFrom the county histories, on Juniata township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1883, including the spelling of the day and the… | Juniata township | 1 source |
| Kasan and Song, 1909Mount Union in 1909 was more worldly than people imagine. Alley Kasan came to America in 1901 and by 1903 opened a grocery on West Shirley Street. Ye… | Mount Union borough | 1 source |
| Kistler, the Village that Was DesignedMost company towns were laid out by engineers with almost no thought given to how they would feel to live in. Kistler was different, and it is worth… | Mount Union borough | 2 sources |
| Korean War Remembrance · 76 Years76 years ago today, June 25, 1950, North Korean forces crossed the 38th Parallel. Three years of fighting. Over 36,000 Americans never came home.… | County wide | 1 source |
| Late Fall Above MarklesburgRon Shawley photographed the Raystown Lake country in the first week of November 2014 and gave the whole series one caption: Raystown lake Region… | Marklesburg borough | 1 source |
| Leather Before BrickBefore the brick works came the tannery. In 1883, when Mount Union's chief industry was A. D. Faust and Sons, they could process 13,000 hides a year… | Mount Union borough | 2 sources |
| Lewis Smalley's stone house at the mouth of AughwickOn Route 103, two miles east of US 522 where Aughwick Creek meets the Juniata River, stands a two and a half story house of native stone that the… | Shirley township | 2 sources |
| Lincoln: getting there: roads, rails and the riverFrom the county histories, on Lincoln township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1883, including the spelling of the day and the… | Lincoln township | 1 source |
| Lincoln: the first congregationsFrom the county histories, on Lincoln township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1883, including the spelling of the day and the… | Lincoln township | 1 source |
| Locomotive No. 12, north of OrbisoniaA quarter of a mile north of Orbisonia, East Broad Top locomotive No. 12 crosses a steel I-beam plate girder bridge after clearing the yard. The… | Orbisonia borough | 1 source |
| Logan: mills, forges and the iron tradeFrom the county histories, on Logan township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1883, including the spelling of the day and the… | Logan township | 1 source |
| Lower Spruce Creek PresbyterianSpruce Creek township's first photograph on this site. The valley is best known outside the county for its trout water, which is why a president… | Spruce Creek township | 1 source |
| Main Street, Dublin TownshipMain Street running north through Dublin township, photographed in May 2024 between Tannery Road and Hemlock… | Dublin township | 1 source |
| Mapleton Station, the depot that made a townA stereo card in the Library of Congress carries the words American Views. Pennsylvania R. R. on its mount, the number 219, and the title Mapleton… | Mapleton borough | 6 sources |
| Market StreetOne of the oldest, most faded views we have of Market Street, from around the turn of the last century. Time and the camera have washed most of it… | Mount Union borough | 2 sources |
| Marklesburg: a wagon stop town on the Bedford RoadMarklesburg runs for a little over a third of a mile along both sides of Route 26 in Woodcock Valley, between Tussey Mountain and Terrace Mountain,… | Marklesburg borough | 2 sources |
| Meloni's BarMeloni's Bar, one of the Italian-American family businesses that took root when immigrant workers came to Mount Union for the brickyards and the… | Mount Union borough | no source list |
| Miller: getting there: roads, rails and the riverFrom the county histories, on Miller township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1913, including the spelling of the day and the… | Miller township | 1 source |
| Miller: mills, forges and the iron tradeFrom the county histories, on Miller township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1883, including the spelling of the day and the… | Miller township | 1 source |
| Miller: the first congregationsFrom the county histories, on Miller township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1913, including the spelling of the day and the… | Miller township | 1 source |
| Millstones From Broad Top MountainDid you know? In 1883 the only grist mill in Hopewell Township was one whose first millstones had been quarried on Broad Top Mountain. Henry Putt… | Hopewell township | 1 source |
| Minersville Coke OvensA mile east of Coalmont, on the north side of Route 913, flat ground between Millers Run and Shoups Run holds what is left of a coal mine opened in… | Carbon township | 3 sources |
| Monroe FurnaceSix miles northwest of McAlevys Fort, where Route 26 meets the side road to Mooresville, a square stone stack stands on the south side of a mountain,… | Barree township | 2 sources |
| Morris: where the name comes fromFrom the county histories, on Morris township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1883, including the spelling of the day and the… | Morris township | 1 source |
| Mount Union Historic DistrictThe Mount Union Historic District covers about 32 square blocks centered on Jefferson and Market Streets, more than two thirds of the borough, and… | Mount Union borough | 2 sources |
| Mount Union Refractories: listed in 1990, gone by 1996The Mount Union Refractories Company plant stood on a triangular plot at the east end of Pennsylvania Avenue, between a Pennsylvania Railroad spur,… | Mount Union borough | 2 sources |
| Mount Union's SubwayThis is what a subway looks like in Mount Union. No underground trains here, the subway was the underpass that carried you safely beneath the… | Mount Union borough | 2 sources |
| Mt. Hope Baptist Church, 1921As the wartime labor market kept expanding, and a third brick plant and a government munitions plant went up, Mount Union drew a number of African… | Mount Union borough | 3 sources |
| Named For A Gap And A MeadowDid you know? Meadow Gap took its name from the gap in the mountain and the large meadow at the mouth of the gap. Nobody is certain who settled… | Springfield township | 1 source |
| National Moon DayFifty seven years ago today, two Americans were standing on the moon. Neil Armstrong stepped off the ladder first, about six hours after Eagle set… | County wide | 1 source |
| Native American Civil RightsDid you know? The man who helped bring the first national Native American rights organization into being spent the last fourteen years of his career… | Huntingdon borough | 4 sources |
| New Deal Art on Our Wall, 1937Walk into the Mount Union post office and look up: in 1937, Treasury Department artist Paul Rohland painted The Union of the Mountains there, as part… | Mount Union borough | 1 source |
| Nine Grades of Coal and a Yard that Never SleptThe East Broad Top yard at Mount Union went in with the line itself, in 1873, and its whole reason for existing was that two railroads of two… | Mount Union borough | 2 sources |
| Not A Ton Of Lead OreDid you know? Shafts were once sunk into Warrior Ridge near McConnellstown, and all the diggings together did not produce a ton of lead ore. A mile… | Walker township | 1 source |
| Old Presbyterian Church, 1867 to 1908The brick church in this photograph stood on the southeast corner of Shirley and Division Streets for over forty years. Built in 1866 and 1867 at a… | Mount Union borough | 2 sources |
| Oldest PhotoDid you know the oldest American photograph still in existence was made by a man from Huntingdon, with a cigar box? Joseph Saxton was born here in… | Huntingdon borough | 1 source |
| One Storefront, Two TradesThe storefront of J. E. Everett in Mount Union, photographed around 1910. Two people stand in the central doorway, framed between two windows. On the… | Mount Union borough | no source list |
| Oneida: mills, forges and the iron tradeFrom the county histories, on Oneida township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1883, including the spelling of the day and the… | Oneida township | 1 source |
| Oneida: the first congregationsFrom the county histories, on Oneida township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1883, including the spelling of the day and the… | Oneida township | 1 source |
| Orbisonia and Rock Hill from the air, 1906Nobody flew over Orbisonia in 1906. The bird's eye view was a commercial art form: an artist walked the streets, drew every building, and then… | Rockhill borough, Orbisonia borough | 1 source |
| Paper Tablets by the TrainloadDid you know? Huntingdon once turned out paper tablets by the trainload, and it started with one man selling stationery on Penn Street. In 1869 J.… | Huntingdon borough | 1 source |
| Parade day, 1920sParade day in the 1920s, when a boom town's sidewalks filled shoulder to shoulder for a band and a banner. Some things about a small town never… | Mount Union borough | no source list |
| Paradise Furnace, the iron plantation inside Trough Creek State ParkFive miles southeast of Entriken, inside Trough Creek State Park, the National Register nomination counts three survivals from an iron plantation… | Todd township | 3 sources |
| Peduzzi's Entrance TileStep into Peduzzi's and look down. The name is set in tile at the doorway. T. C. Peduzzi did not come here for the brick. Welch's 1909 account has… | Mount Union borough | 1 source |
| Peduzzi's Soda and LunchPeduzzi's Soda and Lunch, the counter at the heart of downtown. Look down at the doorway and the name is still set in tile. The man behind it had… | Mount Union borough | 1 source |
| Pennsylvania Avenue, 1945Pennsylvania Avenue in 1945. The east end of town grew up around General Refractories, which built clusters of company housing for its workers on the… | Mount Union borough | no source list |
| Porter Township's Municipal BuildingThe Porter township municipal building, photographed in August 2024 from Bridge Street, which is also Pennsylvania Route… | Porter township | 1 source |
| Porter: the first congregationsFrom the county histories, on Porter township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1883, including the spelling of the day and the… | Porter township | 1 source |
| Porter: the village, the store and the post officeFrom the county histories, on Porter township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1876, including the spelling of the day and the… | Porter township | 1 source |
| Pulpit RocksDid you know the Pulpit Rocks northwest of Huntingdon are a National Historic Landmark, and that what happened there was an idea? They stand on… | Huntingdon borough | 2 sources |
| Pulpit Rocks and the summer the survey got the mountains rightOn the crest of Warrior Ridge, about a mile and a half northwest of Huntingdon along the old Huntingdon and Hollidaysburg Turnpike, weathered… | Porter township | 3 sources |
| Purdue's FounderDid you know? The man Purdue University is named for was born in Huntingdon County, and he had to quit school at twelve. John Purdue was born… | Shirleysburg borough, Cromwell township | 3 sources |
| R. F. Ernst, the Man Behind the CameraFor weeks we have been sharing photographs from Charles H. Welch's 1909 history of Mount Union. Now we want to tell you about the photographer who… | Mount Union borough | 1 source |
| Radiators From The Old Car WorksDid you know? After Huntingdon stopped building railroad cars, the old car works went on to make radiators. W. A. Orbison and C. W. Welch started… | Huntingdon borough | 2 sources |
| Rail on Canal BedDid you know? The canal through Huntingdon County did not die in a flood. It died quietly, and it was already thirteen years gone when the famous… | County wide | 2 sources |
| Raystown Lake in late autumnTodd township's first photograph here, and the lake is the reason. Raystown is the largest body of water wholly inside Pennsylvania, and its northern… | Todd township | 1 source |
| Raystown Lake's Monster LegendDid you know? The Army Corps of Engineers does not call Raystown Pennsylvania's largest lake. It calls it the largest lake located entirely in… | County wide | 2 sources |
| Robb Farm: a Hartslog Valley homestead since 1826William Robb was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, in 1775 and left for Pennsylvania in 1799, working off the cost of his passage on a farm in the… | Walker township | 2 sources |
| Robertsdale as it was being built, August 1874From the newspaper the county was reading at the time, on Wood township. Wood is the youngest township in the county, erected from Carbon in March… | Wood township | 2 sources |
| Robertsdale, the company town on Broad TopRobertsdale sits on the east side of Broad Top Mountain in the southwest corner of Huntingdon County, and the National Register nomination written in… | Wood township | 3 sources |
| Rockhill: the first settlersFrom the county histories, on Rockhill borough. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1883, including the spelling of the day and the… | Rockhill borough | 1 source |
| Route 522 Through Cromwell TownshipU.S. Route 522 running north through Cromwell township, photographed in May 2024 between Starr Farm and Covered Bridge… | Cromwell township | 1 source |
| Route 829 Out of Cass TownshipPennsylvania Route 829 running north out of Cass township towards Cassville, photographed in August 2024 between Smith Valley Road and Lucyanna… | Cass township | 1 source |
| Runk Bridge over Aughwick CreekRunk Bridge carries Township Road 373 over Aughwick Creek south of Shirleysburg, in Shirley Township, a quarter mile west of U.S. Route 522. It is… | Shirley township | 2 sources |
| Saints Peter and Paul, Built by the Men Who Came for the BrickThe demand for steel in the First World War pushed silica brick production to a level the county could not staff. Employment at Huntingdon County… | Mount Union borough | 3 sources |
| Salt of the EarthThe people of this county are about as plain and solid as folks come. They work hard, they keep their word, they help a neighbor without being… | County wide | no source list |
| Saltillo: a visitor's account, December 1875From the newspaper the county was reading at the time, on Saltillo borough. A correspondent of the Huntingdon Journal wrote up a visit to the town,… | Saltillo borough | 1 source |
| Shade Gap 1966In May 1966 this county was the centre of a manhunt, and a federal agent died in it. The FBI's own account is short and it is the one to read: “On… | Shade Gap borough | 1 source |
| Shapiro Furniture WarehouseThe Shapiro family built two businesses in Mount Union, a movie house that opened in 1915 and a furniture warehouse that served the town through… | Mount Union borough | 2 sources |
| Shavers Creek Fire Company, MooresvilleThe Shavers Creek Fire Company in the village of Mooresville, West township, photographed in August… | West township | 1 source |
| Shirley and Jefferson Corner TodayStand at the corner of Shirley and Jefferson today, and you're standing on the same spot where boom-town Mount Union traded in commerce and news and… | Mount Union borough | 2 sources |
| Shirley Street, 1920sShirley Street in the 1920s, the town the State Museum of Pennsylvania calls the Silica Brick Capital of the World, in full stride. Three… | Mount Union borough | 2 sources |
| Shirley Street, 1930sShirley Street in the 1930s. Even through the Depression, the brick plants kept Mount Union's main street busier than most towns its… | Mount Union borough | no source list |
| Shirley Street, 1960s, and thank youShirley Street in the 1960s, parking meters, neon, and a main street still carrying three refractories plants. That's 30 days of Mount Union… | Mount Union borough | 1 source |
| Skating on the JuniataHard to picture in June, but this is what winter looked like in Mount Union. When the Juniata froze hard, the river became the town's gathering… | Mount Union borough | no source list |
| Small Store in the East EndSelea Cutshall lost both legs to a serious railroad accident. But he built a life anyway. Born in Springfield Township on February 6, 1870, he came… | Mount Union borough | 1 source |
| Smith Valley Road at BirdvaleSmith Valley Road running east through Birdvale, a village in Union township that the photographer notes is also called Birdville. The shot was taken… | Union township | 1 source |
| Smithfield in the county paper, 1872 and 1873From the newspaper the county was reading at the time, on Smithfield township. Smithfield is one of the newer townships, organized in March 1886 out… | Smithfield township | 3 sources |
| Special delivery, 19101910: the J. D. Flood Company delivering furniture the old way, by horse and wagon. The Floods were county men. Charles H. Welch records that the… | Mount Union borough | 1 source |
| Springfield: the first congregationsFrom the county histories, on Springfield township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1913, including the spelling of the day and… | Springfield township | 1 source |
| Springfield: the first settlersFrom the county histories, on Springfield township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1883, including the spelling of the day and… | Springfield township | 1 source |
| Spruce Creek: getting there: roads, rails and the riverFrom the county histories, on Spruce Creek township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1876, including the spelling of the day… | Spruce Creek township | 1 source |
| Spruce Creek: the village, the store and the post officeFrom the county histories, on Spruce Creek township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1876, including the spelling of the day… | Spruce Creek township | 1 source |
| St. Mary's Covered Bridge, the county's lastThe St. Mary's or Shade Gap covered bridge crosses Shade Creek in Cromwell Township, about four and a half miles south of Orbisonia and just off U.S.… | Cromwell township | 2 sources |
| St. Michael's, the onion-domed church at WoodvaleSt. Michael's Greek Orthodox Church stands on a small parcel of High Street land that its founders obtained from the coal company. The Historic… | Wood township | 4 sources |
| St. Patrick's Day Flood, 1936The St. Patrick's Day Flood, March 1936. It put Mount Union's low streets under water and it is the flood this county still measures other floods… | Mount Union borough | 2 sources |
| Standing Stone Avenue, Oneida TownshipPennsylvania Route 26, which carries the name Standing Stone Avenue here, running north-east through Oneida township between Frazier Crest and Ridge.… | Oneida township | 1 source |
| Stone Creek Valley Fire DepartmentThe Stone Creek Valley Volunteer Fire Department, Station 19, on Route 26 in Jackson township. Photographed in September 2016 and released into the… | Jackson township | 1 source |
| Storage SilosIndustrial storage at the Harbison-Walker complex. These silos held finished brick waiting for the railroad cars that would carry them to the… | Mount Union borough | 1 source |
| Strickler's Ice Cream and GasolineStrickler's in the 1950s was where two needs met on the same corner: ice cream and a full tank of gas. The Ice Cream sign is painted large above the… | Mount Union borough | no source list |
| Strickler's Store and Gas StationStrickler's in the 1950s, full service in every way: pump your gas, fix your car, sell you a cold drink, and maybe a sandwich for the road. By the… | Mount Union borough | 2 sources |
| T. A. Giacobello, Foreign SuppliesThe federal survey recorded this storefront on Shirley Street under the name it carried: T. A. Giacobello Foreign Supplies Store. That was what a… | Mount Union borough | 2 sources |
| Tea Party PatriotDid you know? One of the men remembered as throwing tea into Boston Harbor is buried in Huntingdon County. Thomas White came over from Ireland and… | County wide | 1 source |
| Tell: the first congregationsFrom the county histories, on Tell township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1883, including the spelling of the day and the… | Tell township | 1 source |
| Tell: the first settlersFrom the county histories, on Tell township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1883, including the spelling of the day and the… | Tell township | 1 source |
| Ten bridges and two tunnels in five miles of the Little JuniataBetween the village of Spruce Creek and the borough of Birmingham the Pennsylvania Railroad's main line follows the Little Juniata River, which the… | Spruce Creek township | 3 sources |
| Terrace Mountain on a Philadelphia stereo card, 1873In September 1873 a Philadelphia stereo card publisher, James Cremer, put Terrace Mountain near Huntingdon on a nine by eighteen centimeter mount and… | Todd township, Penn township, Lincoln township, Union township, Hopewell township, Juniata township | 4 sources |
| The 1849 railroad bridge Huntingdon left behindAt the east end of Huntingdon, just south of the Penn Street road bridge, four semicircular stone arches stand over Standing Stone Creek with no… | Huntingdon borough | 4 sources |
| The 1917 Wreck, Buckled WheelsThe wheels buckled and intertwined, metal folded like paper under the force of the collision. This is the physical evidence of the impact that… | Mount Union borough | 3 sources |
| The 1917 Wreck, Sleeper Car ViewFebruary 27, 1917, the day everything stopped. The sleeper car of the Mercantile Express lies twisted, and a lone figure stands watching. Inside… | Mount Union borough | 3 sources |
| The Acme on Shirley StreetThe Acme grocery on Shirley Street, back when clerks fetched your order from behind the counter and most families ran a tab between brickyard… | Mount Union borough | no source list |
| The Altoona men who built a clubhouse over Spruce CreekSouth of Route 45 in Franklin Township, on a hillock above Spruce Creek, a stone clubhouse and three stone outbuildings sit on the ten acres the… | Franklin township | 1 source |
| The Arch Bridge over US 522Walk under this stone arch and you're stepping through Italian immigrant craftsmanship, stonemasonry built in the early 1900s when the railroad was… | Mount Union borough | 2 sources |
| The Bag Of Gold Still UnfoundDid you know? A county history printed in 1876 says a leather bag of silver and gold was hidden on Black Log Mountain and has never been found. The… | Cromwell township | 1 source |
| The Bank on the Corner of Jefferson and ShirleyThe county's own history book, published for the sesquicentennial in 1937, lists the banks then operating in Huntingdon County. Two of them were… | Mount Union borough | 2 sources |
| The Barn at Robb FarmThe barn at Robb Farm in Walker township, which the photographer records as a historic home and farm. Photographed in September… | Walker township | 1 source |
| The beehive ovensThe beehive kilns of the Mount Union Refractories Company. The company was organized in 1911 and finished its silica brick plant in 1912, the third… | Mount Union borough | 4 sources |
| The Birmingham Bridge, on the county lineThe Birmingham Bridge carries Pennsylvania Route 350 over the Juniata north of Birmingham, and it does not belong to one county. Its far end is in… | Warriors Mark township | 1 source |
| The Boom Decade and a Second SodomMount Union, in numbers: 764 people in 1880, 810 in 1890, 1,086 by 1900 — and 3,338 by 1910, more than triple the town of a decade before. The brick… | Mount Union borough | 2 sources |
| The Brick Office that Became the Red CrossLook at the sign in the yard. This little brick building on Market Street was the General Refractories Company office. When the company closed its… | Mount Union borough | 5 sources |
| The Brumbaugh Homestead, in RuinsWhat remains of the Brumbaugh homestead in Penn township, photographed from the north and east in September… | Penn township | 1 source |
| The canal warehouse that moved 450 feetBehind Laney's Feed Mill on South 8th Street in Huntingdon, parallel to the railroad, stands a wooden warehouse 97 feet long and 35 feet wide. The… | Huntingdon borough | 3 sources |
| The Captain Jack MotelThe Captain Jack Motel in the early 1950s, a new type of lodging for a new era. The brick boom was waning, but Mount Union was adjusting: highways,… | Mount Union borough | 3 sources |
| The Church of Christ at Broad Top CityThe Broad Top Church of Christ stands at 5117 Railroad Avenue, which is also Pennsylvania Route 913, in Broad Top City. Photographed from the west… | Broad Top City borough | 1 source |
| The company office that became the post officeThe Rockhill Iron and Coal Company office stands on the east side of Main Street in Robertsdale, just south of the East Broad Top tracks and across… | Wood township | 5 sources |
| The concrete-block depot at RobertsdaleAcross the street from where Robertsdale's first railroad depot stood, on the north side of the East Broad Top tracks, is a one-story station of… | Wood township | 3 sources |
| The Conveyor that Cost a NeighborhoodFor most of the plant's life the ganister came from the far side of the Juniata and had to be hauled across the river and across the main line. In… | Mount Union borough | 3 sources |
| The Corbin BridgeThe eastern end of the Corbin Bridge, which carries Township Road 428 over the Raystown Branch of the Juniata south-west of Huntingdon. A suspension… | Juniata township | 1 source |
| The Couple Who Would Not Change Their HouseA Norman Cottage sits gable end to the street, one and a half stories, with one roof slope run out long to cover a side porch and a three window bay… | Mount Union borough | 3 sources |
| The courthouse Huntingdon tore down, and never quite forgaveDid you know? Huntingdon tore down a courthouse people loved, and fifty five years later they were still sore about it. The county's second… | Huntingdon borough | 4 sources |
| The Creosoting PlantThe Pennsylvania Railroad's tie-treating plant, on the company's ground northeast of town along the Juniata. Charles H. Welch was writing in 1909,… | Mount Union borough | 1 source |
| The Crum BuildingThe Crum building on the corner of Jefferson Street and Railroad Avenue. It replaced the Broad Top House, one of Mount Union's early hotels, built… | Mount Union borough | 1 source |
| The darkest day: February 27, 1917February 27, 1917, eight minutes past midnight. The eastbound Mercantile Express, Pennsylvania Railroad train No. 6 out of Altoona, stood at the… | Mount Union borough | 7 sources |
| The Diamond Valley RailroadDid you know? Huntingdon County once had a railroad called the Diamond Valley Railroad, built by a lumberman, and for a time its bridge was how… | Porter township | 3 sources |
| The Dinky BridgeThe Dinky Bridge, not a passenger line, but a workhorse. This little quarry railroad hauled ganister rock down from Jacks Mountain to the brick… | Mount Union borough | 2 sources |
| The Distiller Who Lost His LicenseDid you know? In 1888 a Huntingdon whiskey dealer was refused a renewal of his license, and in 1891 he got it back because the authorities found they… | Juniata township | 2 sources |
| The drug storeThe crew posed out front of the drug store. In a brickyard town, the soda counter was where the day's news got traded after the shift… | Mount Union borough | no source list |
| The DustThis is the inside of the packing shed at the No. 1 works. Every one of those posts is doing a job, and the floor runs on past the end of the… | Mount Union borough | 4 sources |
| The East Broad Top bridge over Aughwick Creek at Aughwick MillsWhere the East Broad Top Railroad crosses Aughwick Creek at Aughwick Mills, a concrete bridge carried the narrow gauge track. The Historic American… | Shirley township | 5 sources |
| The East Broad Top station at SaltilloThe Saltillo station stands between the East Broad Top main line at milepost 18.8 and South Main Street, Pennsylvania Route 655. The Historic… | Saltillo borough | 5 sources |
| The East Broad Top water tank at Coles StationHalf a mile east of Coles Valley Road, at milepost 24.3 on the East Broad Top main line beyond Saltillo toward Robertsdale, stands an enclosed water… | Clay township | 4 sources |
| The Engine They Left in the ShedWhen the federal survey team walked the East Broad Top yard, this is part of what they found. A concrete block engine house going soft at the edges,… | Mount Union borough | 2 sources |
| The Evander P. Walker store on Main StreetOn the north side of Main Street in Alexandria, five lots north of Hartslog Street, stands a two-story brick store with its gable turned to the… | Alexandria borough | 4 sources |
| The Factory that Outgrew the BrickThe factory where the women worked, and the reason they were the ones working there. Mount Union Manufacturing opened on Pine Street in 1920 to make… | Mount Union borough | 1 source |
| The February 27, 1917 WreckFebruary 27, 1917 is the date Mount Union remembers. Eight minutes past midnight a fast preference freight came out of the fog and struck the… | Mount Union borough | 2 sources |
| The feed mill Anderson Dell built for H. O. AndrewsIn the summer of 1908 H. O. Andrews and some area farmers pooled an order and had the first rail car of feed shipped into Mapleton, a car of shelled… | Mapleton borough | 3 sources |
| The Festival That Came to Agape FarmFor most of forty years a field in Cromwell township filled up every June with tens of thousands of people and a stage. Creation began in 1979, and… | Cromwell township | 3 sources |
| The Fire DepartmentThe Mount Union fire department and a crowd of dignitaries on the engine in front of the Municipal Building, 1920. In a tight-packed brick town, the… | Mount Union borough | 2 sources |
| The First of Its Kind in the CountryIn 1899 the W. H. Haws Company of Johnstown began building a plant at the west end of Shirley Street. The federal engineering survey that documented… | Mount Union borough | 3 sources |
| The Flood Took the Dinky BridgeThe St. Patrick's Day Flood of March 17-18, 1936 wasn't a passing inconvenience, it was catastrophic. The Dinky Bridge, which had hauled ganister… | Mount Union borough | 2 sources |
| The Founder's BellDid you know? When Huntingdon's first courthouse went up on Third Street, the man who laid out the town paid for its bell himself. Dr. William Smith… | Huntingdon borough | 2 sources |
| The Freight Depot and the People Who Tried to Save ItThe Pennsylvania Railroad put up a new freight depot in Mount Union in 1914, on Pennsylvania Avenue between Depot and Washington streets. It did not… | Mount Union borough | 2 sources |
| The G. W. Radle StoreThe G. W. Radle store, one family's answer to the question, "How do you feed a boom town?" With supply lines, trust, and willingness to extend… | Mount Union borough | 2 sources |
| The Gambrel Roofs on Water StreetThe federal survey describes them exactly as they still stand: two rows of one and a half story, gambrel roofed houses along east Water Street and… | Mount Union borough | 4 sources |
| The General Refractories OfficeThe General Refractories Company office in Mount Union. Harbison-Walker gets the headlines, but it wasn't the only brick empire in town, General… | Mount Union borough | 2 sources |
| The H. O. Andrews Feed Mill, MapletonA feed mill is where a farming county turns its own grain back into something its animals can eat, and Mapleton's is on the National Register of… | Mapleton borough | 1 source |
| The Harbison-Walker WorksThe Harbison-Walker Refractories works, the plant that made Mount Union 'Bricktown USA.' Beehive kilns, brick stacks, and acres of works turning… | Mount Union borough | 2 sources |
| The Hatfield iron works below AlexandriaEast of Alexandria, between the Frankstown Branch of the Juniata and the old canal bed, six buildings remain of the Juniata Iron Works. The National… | Porter township | 3 sources |
| The Haun Brothers Were RobbedDid you know? The Haun brothers of Juniata Township worked so hard and saved so much that their wealth drew robbers to the house, and one brother… | Brady township, Juniata township | 1 source |
| The hollow dam at Warrior RidgeTwo miles south of Petersburg, where the Frankstown Branch of the Juniata cuts a gap through Warrior Ridge, a hollow concrete dam and a power plant… | Logan township, Porter township | 2 sources |
| The Houses in Kistler Have NamesNot numbers. Names. They are written on John Nolen's own plan for the town, and the federal survey copied them down: Double Valley Farm House, Double… | Mount Union borough | 4 sources |
| The Hudson Grist Mill, SaltilloSaltillo's first photograph on this site is of a mill on the National Register of Historic Places. The picture shows the west side, the shed… | Saltillo borough | 1 source |
| The ironmaster's mansion at Greenwood FurnaceFive miles east of McAlevys Fort on Route 305, the ironmaster's mansion at Greenwood Furnace is a four-bay, two-story house of coursed stone rubble… | Jackson township | 5 sources |
| The J. E. Everett GroceryThe J. E. Everett grocery in 1910, in the middle of the decade that changed this town. Charles H. Welch, writing here in 1909, put numbers on it.… | Mount Union borough | 1 source |
| The John Porter house at Bridge and MainAbout 90 feet west of the corner of Bridge and Main streets in Alexandria, on the south side of Main with the Juniata River at the back of the lot,… | Alexandria borough | 3 sources |
| The Kenmar HotelThe Kenmar Hotel in 1908. A brick town on the main line drew a steady stream of visitors, salesmen, investors, and railroad men, and they all… | Mount Union borough | 2 sources |
| The Killing that Named the MountainFebruary 1744. Three Delaware Indians killed an Indian trader named Jack Armstrong and his two companions, James Smith and Woodworth Arnold, at the… | Shirley township | 2 sources |
| The Kistler Company Store, Taken Down in 1990Kistler was about as complete a company town as this region produced. The company built and kept up virtually every building in it, along with the… | Mount Union borough | 3 sources |
| The Lady Of The Lake, 1831Did you know? Canal boats were built on Standing Stone Creek, at Foster's mill in Oneida Township. The county history of 1883 says, on the authority… | Oneida township | 1 source |
| The Lake From Lincoln TownshipRon Shawley photographed the Raystown Lake country in the first week of November 2014 and gave the whole series one caption: Raystown lake Region… | Lincoln township | 1 source |
| The Last Day, and the Molds that Went to UtahAt the end of November 1985 a Harbison-Walker spokesman told the United Steelworkers that the Mount Union plant was closing, because the silica brick… | Mount Union borough | 3 sources |
| The lockkeeper's house that turned its back on Alexandria's gridAt the southeast corner of Hartslog Street and Shelton Avenue stands a two-story frame house that does not line up with the rest of Alexandria. The… | Alexandria borough | 4 sources |
| The Lutheran church at CassvilleCassville borough's first photograph here, taken from Seminary Street. The street name is not accidental: Cassville Seminary operated in this small… | Cassville borough | 1 source |
| The Lyon Mansion at Pennsylvania FurnaceThe Historic American Engineering Record's photographs of the ironmaster's mansion at Pennsylvania Furnace carry survey number HAER PA-286-A and a… | Franklin township | 5 sources |
| The Lyon mansion at Pennsylvania Furnace, twenty-eight rooms of limestone on the county lineA tenth of a mile west of Route 45, just south of the Centre County line, stands an L-shaped house of native limestone about 50 by 70 feet, two and a… | Franklin township | 3 sources |
| The Mailbox Made Out of the TownWhen the last of it was over, the town went and got the bricks. A committee collected brick and some of the most elaborate shapes from all three… | Mount Union borough | 4 sources |
| The Methodist church at Mill CreekMill Creek borough's first photograph on this site is of its United Methodist church. The date stone reads MEC 1852, which the photographer takes to… | Mill Creek borough | 1 source |
| The Methodist Church at ShirleysburgThe United Methodist church in Shirleysburg, photographed in July 2016 and released by its photographer into the public domain. The record names the… | Shirleysburg borough | 2 sources |
| The Methodist church at Woodvale, raised by a local carpenter in 1911The Woodvale Methodist Church is a wood-frame building with its steeple set to one side, placed by the Historic American Buildings Survey at… | Wood township | 3 sources |
| The mill in the Shade Gap NarrowsLess than a mile north of Shade Gap, along Route 522, a three story frame grist mill stands in the Shade Gap Narrows. Brice X. Blair built it in… | Dublin township | 3 sources |
| The mill on Saltillo's main streetOn Route 829, the main street of Saltillo, stands a two and a half story frame grist mill measuring 36 by 28 feet, clapboard sided, on a coursed… | Saltillo borough | 3 sources |
| The Minersville Coke OvensA line of ruined coke ovens at Minersville, looking west along them. Coke ovens baked coal into fuel for iron furnaces, and these are what is left.… | Carbon township | 1 source |
| The Molding RoomThe molding room at Harbison-Walker, a craft operation hidden inside an industrial giant. Hand-pressed ganister, careful shaping, then off to the… | Mount Union borough | 1 source |
| The Monroe Furnace RuinsWhat is left of Monroe Furnace, in Barree township. The furnace was added to the National Register of Historic Places on 13 November 1989, and the… | Barree township | 1 source |
| The Mount Union TimesThe Mount Union Times, printers and publishers, and the reason we know as much about this town as we do. It was run by A. S. and C. H. Welch, father… | Mount Union borough | 2 sources |
| The Museum Director Who Found Art at JuniataDid you know? The man who ran the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston for 28 years found art in a freshman class at Juniata College. In his own words,… | Huntingdon borough | 7 sources |
| The Night the Lights Came OnOn August 20, 1905, the electric lights came on for the first time. Scott Dibert, president of the Mount Union Silica Brick Company, had brought… | Mount Union borough | 1 source |
| The Nobel PhysicistDid you know a Nobel Prize in Physics has a Huntingdon County college behind it, and not for one generation but three? William D. Phillips shared… | Huntingdon borough | 2 sources |
| The old high schoolThe old Mount Union High School. Generations of Trojans passed through these doors before… | Mount Union borough | no source list |
| The Packing ShedThe packing shed at the Harbison-Walker works. This is where it all ended up, finished silica brick, crated and loaded onto the Pennsylvania… | Mount Union borough | 2 sources |
| The Paint RebellionThe company painted the insides of its houses. That much is in the federal record: the Historic American Buildings Survey describes the refractories… | Mount Union borough | 2 sources |
| The Penn Bridge Company's 1898 truss at BirminghamWhere the Little Juniata River passes Birmingham, a steel truss bridge carries a plank deck across from Warriors Mark Township in Huntingdon County… | Warriors Mark township | 2 sources |
| The Pennsylvania Railroad DepotThe PRR depot was Mount Union's front door, and by the time it was serving that purpose the main line had already stopped coming past it. The… | Mount Union borough | 3 sources |
| The Pennsylvania Railroad station, 1908The PRR station in 1908, the year after the railroad stopped running its express trains past it. The high line viaduct over the old canal bed was… | Mount Union borough | 5 sources |
| The Plant Across the RiverThe third brickyard in town was started by two men who used to run the first one. R. P. M. Davis and Clinton V. Hackman, both former managers for… | Mount Union borough | 3 sources |
| The Poet at the DepotW. W. Fuller was born at Ickesburg in Perry County on November 6, 1837. He entered the Pennsylvania Railroad's service on March 5, 1865, and by… | Shirley township | 1 source |
| The post office at Shade GapShade Gap sits where the road goes through Shade Mountain, and a gap in a ridge is why most small towns in this county are where they are. This is… | Shade Gap borough | 1 source |
| The Post Office, and What the Painter Put in the MiddleThe date is cut into the front of the building: 1936. The year after, the Treasury Department's Section sent Paul Rohland to paint a mural inside… | Mount Union borough | 3 sources |
| The Rarest House in KistlerSeven Double Mountain Houses were built in 1917 for workers in Kistler, the company town of Mount Union Refractories across the Juniata River from… | Mount Union borough | 1 source |
| The Raystown Branch feeder, the lock that kept the canal watered east of HuntingdonEast of Huntingdon, on the northeast bank of the Juniata just below where the Raystown Branch comes in, two parallel stone walls run for 90 feet,… | Henderson township | 3 sources |
| The Reality Theater, a dream rebuilt in 1948Robertsdale's first theater belonged to the coal company. In 1918 the Rockhill Iron and Coal Company built the Liberty Theater at the corner of Main… | Wood township | 5 sources |
| The Reformatory On The JuniataDid you know? The state Department of Corrections calls SCI Huntingdon Pennsylvania's oldest correctional institution in continuous operation. It… | Smithfield township | 1 source |
| The Road Into SaltilloHudson Street running into Saltillo out of Clay township, photographed in August 2024 looking north-west. Saltillo is the borough; the camera is… | Clay township | 1 source |
| The Robertsdale HotelThe front of the Robertsdale Hotel at 14 South Main Street, in Robertsdale, an unincorporated community in Wood township. Built in 1912, and part of… | Wood township | 1 source |
| The Rock: the Leas house on the Fort Shirley groundTo the right as you enter Shirleysburg from the north on Route 522 stands a two and a half story house of locally fired soft red brick, five bays… | Shirleysburg borough | 3 sources |
| The Shade Gap Case In A MuseumDid you know? The 1966 Shade Gap kidnapping case has its own exhibit at the Pennsylvania State Police History, Educational and Memorial Center in… | Shade Gap borough | 2 sources |
| The Shapiro Theatre, 1941Saturday night, 1941: the Shapiro Theatre. For decades this marquee was Mount Union's night out. The Shapiros were not newcomers when they built it.… | Mount Union borough | 4 sources |
| The Sheriff's Office and JailThe county sheriff's office and jail stand inside the Huntingdon Historic District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The… | Huntingdon borough | 1 source |
| The Sign That Welcomes You to HuntingdonThe welcome sign for Huntingdon, photographed in June 2025. It is worth knowing where it actually stands: the sign greets drivers on the way into the… | Smithfield township | 1 source |
| The Silica Brick Works CrewThe crew of the Silica Brick Works, this is the human side of industrial statistics. Each face represents a decade or more of work at the kilns, in… | Mount Union borough | 3 sources |
| The stone arches over Shavers Creek at Petersburg, built in 1889 and still carrying trainsAt the south end of Petersburg, where Shavers Creek meets the Juniata, a three arch bridge of cut stone, 134 feet long, carries the railroad's two… | Logan township, Petersburg borough | 2 sources |
| The stone church at Greenwood FurnaceThe church at Greenwood Furnace is a one-story building of rubble stone, gable end to the road, with a side entrance porch and a cross-gabled cupola.… | Jackson township | 7 sources |
| The stone company store at Main and CliffThe Rockhill Iron and Coal Company store stands at the corner of Main and Cliff streets in Robertsdale, opposite the tracks, at the center of the… | Wood township | 5 sources |
| The Stone Mill at Huntingdon FurnaceThe Historic American Engineering Record photographed the grist mill at Huntingdon Furnace under survey number HAER PA-243-A, a cover sheet with no… | Franklin township | 5 sources |
| The Stove In The Old Stone ChurchDid you know? The Huntingdon County Historical Society has owned the old stone church at Manor Hill since 1970, and the Society calls it the oldest… | Barree township | 2 sources |
| The superintendent's house on Church StreetThe Historic American Buildings Survey's file on the superintendent's house at 9 Church Street in Robertsdale holds photographs behind a single cover… | Wood township | 5 sources |
| The Three-Arch Bridge over Stone CreekWhere the Pennsylvania Railroad's main line crosses Stone Creek at the eastern end of Huntingdon borough, south of Penn Street between First and… | Huntingdon borough | 4 sources |
| The tie yard, 1950sThe Pennsylvania Railroad tie yard in the 1950s. Mount Union was not only brick: millions of wooden crossties passed through the railroad's treating… | Mount Union borough | 1 source |
| The Tin Goose, the first Tucker, at the Swigart MuseumThe maroon fastback on the floor of the William E. Swigart, Jr. Automobile Museum at 12031 William Penn Highway, Huntingdon, is the first automobile… | Huntingdon borough | 2 sources |
| The Top and the Bottom of the Same CompanyThis is 118 Market Street, the General Refractories superintendent's house. It is still there. The same company owned forty one houses in Mount… | Mount Union borough | 3 sources |
| The view from Orbisonia depotLooking south across Meadow Street, which is Route 994, from the Orbisonia depot toward the Rockhill shop complex. The East Broad Top was the narrow… | Orbisonia borough | 1 source |
| The Village of RibotShavers Creek Road, which is also Pennsylvania Route 305, running west through the village of Ribot in Logan township. Photographed in August… | Logan township | 1 source |
| The Village of Water StreetU.S. Route 22 running west into the village of Water Street, in Morris township. Photographed in August… | Morris township | 1 source |
| The Walker farmhouse on Route 522, south of ShirleysburgThree tenths of a mile south of the Shirleysburg borough line, on the west side of U.S. Route 522, the Historic American Buildings Survey recorded a… | Shirley township | 4 sources |
| The Walker Farmstead, south of ShirleysburgOn the west side of U.S. Route 522, three tenths of a mile south of the Shirleysburg borough line, which puts it in Shirley township rather than the… | Shirley township | 1 source |
| The Warm SpringsDid you know? Before there was any hotel, people came to the Warm Springs, about five miles from Huntingdon on Standing Stone Creek, to take the… | Oneida township | 5 sources |
| The Warriors' MarksDid you know? Nobody is certain how Warriors Mark got its name, and the county history says so in plain words. The 1883 county history opens the… | Warriors Mark township | 2 sources |
| The Willibrand Brewery at the west end of AlexandriaAt the west end of Main Street in Alexandria, set 80 feet back from the road on the south side, stands a brick building, two stories raised to two… | Alexandria borough | 4 sources |
| The women of Harbison-Walker, 19451945: with the men overseas, the women of Mount Union kept the brick moving. Silica brick from this plant lined the furnaces of the steel mills that… | Mount Union borough | no source list |
| The WPA Built This SchoolKistler Elementary sits at the end of Cedar Street. The federal survey records two things about it that belong together: the brick school in the… | Mount Union borough | 2 sources |
| The wreck at Mill Creek, January 1871From the newspaper the county was reading at the time, on Mill Creek borough. The Huntingdon Journal of 11 January 1871 carried this item in its… | Mill Creek borough | 1 source |
| The yellow brick armory on Standing Stone AvenueOn Standing Stone Avenue, on a sloped site along PA Route 26 near the edge of Huntingdon Borough, with Standing Stone Creek at the back of the lot,… | Huntingdon borough | 1 source |
| They Lived In TunneltownDid you know? More than 200 immigrant Italian and southern Black laborers dug the second railroad tunnel at Spruce Creek, and they lived in a… | Spruce Creek township | 1 source |
| Thirty-two rooms for the company's visitorsIn 1911 and 1912 the Rockhill Iron and Coal Company built a hotel of thirty-two rooms in the center of Robertsdale, at 14 South Main Street, just… | Wood township | 4 sources |
| Thomas H. Adams, Schoolteacher to BankerAfter teaching school for five years in Franklin and Huntingdon counties, Thomas H. Adams was ready to enter business. His savings were modest but… | Mount Union borough | 1 source |
| Three and a Quarter Million Dollars to Save Twenty Two SecondsIn 1906 the Pennsylvania Railroad replaced its bridge over the Juniata east of Mount Union. The new one runs 668 feet on six stone arches of a… | Mount Union borough | 3 sources |
| Three Springs: the first congregationsFrom the county histories, on Three Springs borough. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1883, including the spelling of the day… | Three Springs borough | 1 source |
| Three Springs: the first schoolsFrom the county histories, on Three Springs borough. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1883, including the spelling of the day… | Three Springs borough | 1 source |
| Three Springs: the first settlersFrom the county histories, on Three Springs borough. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1883, including the spelling of the day… | Three Springs borough | 1 source |
| Tomahawk Marks In A Sugar TreeDid you know? When an old sugar tree near Huntingdon was cut down in 1875, tomahawk marks were found in it. It stood near an early cabin on a farm… | Oneida township | 1 source |
| Traders First, 1754Did you know the first white men through this valley were not farmers? They were traders, and they were here for skins. In June 1747, years before… | County wide | 2 sources |
| Turning Engines On The Broad TopDid you know? The Huntingdon and Broad Top Mountain Railroad's report for 1857 records that turntables had been put in at Huntingdon and at Hopewell,… | Huntingdon borough, Smithfield township | 3 sources |
| Twenty Days to Burn a BrickA green brick holds so much water that it would blow apart in the kiln, so before anything else it had to be dried. Left in the yard that took days… | Mount Union borough | 2 sources |
| Two Families, Twice JoinedDid you know? The marker for a small family cemetery in Lincoln Township tells of two families who married into each other twice. Myer Souders sent… | Lincoln township | 3 sources |
| Two stone houses in BirminghamBirmingham is the smallest borough in Huntingdon County and one of the oldest, sitting on the Little Juniata where the Pennsylvania Railroad main… | Birmingham borough | 1 source |
| Union Depot at Fourth and AlleghenyThe Union Depot at Fourth and Allegheny Streets was built in 1872 to serve the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Huntingdon and Broad Top, which had each… | Huntingdon borough | 4 sources |
| Union: mills, forges and the iron tradeFrom the county histories, on Union township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1913, including the spelling of the day and the… | Union township | 1 source |
| Union: the first congregationsFrom the county histories, on Union township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1883, including the spelling of the day and the… | Union township | 1 source |
| Union: the first settlersFrom the county histories, on Union township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1876, including the spelling of the day and the… | Union township | 1 source |
| Walker: mills, forges and the iron tradeFrom the county histories, on Walker township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1913, including the spelling of the day and the… | Walker township | 1 source |
| Walker: the first settlersFrom the county histories, on Walker township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1883, including the spelling of the day and the… | Walker township | 1 source |
| Walker: the village, the store and the post officeFrom the county histories, on Walker township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1876, including the spelling of the day and the… | Walker township | 1 source |
| Warrior Ridge DamThe dam spans the Frankstown Branch of the Juniata River at Petersburg. The engineering record photographed it from downstream, looking southwest… | Petersburg borough | 1 source |
| Washington Street at Second, DudleyHouses and the Methodist church on the north side of Washington Street where it meets Second, photographed in March 2015. Dudley is a small borough… | Dudley borough | 2 sources |
| Welcome to Historic Mount UnionWelcome to Historic Mount Union! We start from the air: Bricktown USA before 1960. At its peak the town ran three refractory plants at once:… | Mount Union borough | 3 sources |
| West: getting there: roads, rails and the riverFrom the county histories, on West township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1883, including the spelling of the day and the… | West township | 1 source |
| What the Company Called This Place in 1917In a 1917 advertisement, Harbison-Walker called itself the largest manufacturer of refractory materials in the world, and called its Mount Union… | Mount Union borough | 2 sources |
| When the Government Came to ListenIn 1989 and 1991 federal historians came to Mount Union to record the people who remembered the brickyards. You can see them working in the… | Mount Union borough | 1 source |
| When the Presses Replaced the HandsThe machines that built the secret. In 1942, when Robert Wagner came to work at Harbison-Walker's Mount Union plant, hand molding accounted for 90… | Mount Union borough | no source list |
| Where Barnett Road Meets Schell and KingHouses at the junction of Barnett Road, which carries Pennsylvania Route 913, with Schell Street and King Street in Coalmont. Photographed in March… | Coalmont borough | 1 source |
| Whipple Dam: the CCC lake on Laurel RunWhipple Dam State Park covers 244 acres of Jackson Township, ringed by Rothrock State Forest, according to the nomination stamped in at the National… | Jackson township | 3 sources |
| Who Named Mount UnionWho named Mount Union, and when? The town's own histories can't quite agree. Welch's 1909 book says Col. William Pollock gave the name, in… | Mount Union borough | 4 sources |
| Why Huntingdon built the courthouse it has: a grand jury and the cheapest bidDid you know? The courthouse in Huntingdon exists because a grand jury said the old one was unfit, and the county then took the cheapest bid on the… | Huntingdon borough | 2 sources |
| Why the Thousand Steps Are ThereThousands of people climb the Thousand Steps every year. Far fewer know they were somebody's job. The federal engineering survey has the answer, and… | Mount Union borough | 2 sources |
| Woodvale's post office, assessed at $150 in 1919On the north side of Main Street in Woodvale stands a small hipped-roof, wood-frame building that the Historic American Buildings Survey recorded in… | Wood township | 3 sources |
| Woodvale, the coal patch town on three county linesWoodvale sits on the east side of Broad Top Mountain where Huntingdon, Fulton and Bedford counties meet. A large part of it lies in Wood Township,… | Wood township | 2 sources |
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