Aitch, Before The Water

Did you know? Myer Souders, who says he lived down the road from Aitch with his grandparents, has shared photographs from the town. The town site was flooded when Raystown Lake was created.

This, he says, was his mother's little house, which stood in the lower section of the town that is now submerged. He says it was a log frame structure under clapboard siding, and that it was sold, torn down, and rebuilt as an addition to an existing house. Where his grandparents' house once stood, he says, is under water too.

He also shared a photograph of a little store that, he says, was used as the Aitch post office after the store closed. After the Huntingdon and Broad Top Mountain Railroad ceased operations, he says, the post office moved to the old railroad station, and the little store was bought by Charlie Hess, who owned the big store in Aitch, and moved behind his store along the old railroad grade to be used for storage. A National Register study of the county's industries says the railroad closed in 1954, a closing it ties directly to the decline of the coal industry.

Checked 2026-10-30 · County histories and primary sources, read in full

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