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Todd township

Bouquet Held Land Near Broad Top

Did you know? On September 20, 1762, Colonel Henry Bouquet received four warrants for land in what is now Tod township, in the Trough Creek valley. Africa's 1883 county history lists three more warrants granted to him, dated February 14, 1763.

On August 25 and 26, 1767, Richard Tea, deputy surveyor of the southern district of the county, surveyed or caused to be surveyed the tracts under those warrants, near the base of Broad Top Mountain in what Africa calls Plank Cabin Valley. Together they came to nearly 1,500 acres.

By then Bouquet was dead. Africa notes that he died between May 1765 and July 1767. By 1883 the tracts were known as the Powel and Haldeman lands.

Checked and confirmed. CONFIRMED 2026-10-30 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

  1. John W. Jordan, ed., History of the Juniata Valley and Its People, vol. 1 (1913)
  2. J. Simpson Africa, History of Huntingdon and Blair Counties, Pennsylvania (1883)

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

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Terrace Mountain near Huntingdon, PaTerrace Mountain near Huntingdon, PaLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. No known restrictions on publication · 2017660277
The work arch at Paradise Furnace, inside Trough Creek State Park.The work arch at Paradise Furnace, inside Trough Creek State Park.Nancy S. Shedd et al., Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania: An Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial Sites ( , National Park Service, 1991), photograph 19 · shd019
The steps down into the Ice Mine, Trough Creek State ParkThe steps down into the Ice Mine, Trough Creek State ParkPublic domain, dedicated by the photographer, via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Wray's Hill Tunnel from the west, photographed by Jack E. Boucher in 1986Wray's Hill Tunnel from the west, photographed by Jack E. Boucher in 1986Jack E. Boucher, (HAER PA-127-J), 1986. Library of Congress. Public domain · HAER PA-127-J
Raystown Lake in late autumn, Todd townshipRaystown Lake in late autumn, Todd townshipRon Shawley, via Wikimedia Commons. Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 · CC BY 3.0

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