Walker township

A Rock City On Warrior Ridge

Did 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 a spot where large blocks of Oriskany sandstone stand apart from one another, worn and fifty or sixty feet high.

Not far off, on the Penn Township line, a tunnel was driven into the base of Warrior Ridge on Mr. Eisenberg's land to test for iron ore. Because it started where a small stream had worn a gully into the ridge, it failed to strike the ore beds and even missed the sandstone.

Checked and confirmed. CONFIRMED 2026-10-03 against the sources listed: every factual sentence was tied to a verbatim passage and a script confirmed each passage is in its source. Where sources disagreed on a number, the number was left out.

Sources

I. C. White, The Geology of Huntingdon County (Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, Report T3, 1885)

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The house at Robb Farm in Walker Township.Generic1139 · stg05

The barn at Robb Farm, a historic home and farm located at Walker Township in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania.Photograph by Generic1139, 2014-09-06. Licensed CC BY-SA 3.0; reused with credit, and the same licence travels with any derivative · Robb Farm barn.jpg

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