Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania · established 1787
Every story we can prove, from all forty-eight of our towns and townships.
A county history you can check. 221 stories, each one carrying the sources under it, sorted into the borough or township it actually happened in. Plus where to eat, what to do, and who plays who on Friday night.
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Eighteen boroughs, thirty townships, drawn at their real boundaries. Click any shape.
The shaded ones already have stories written and sourced. The pale ones have their founding record pulled from the county histories and are waiting on the rest. That distinction is on the map on purpose: a gap you can see is a gap somebody can fill.
Boundaries are the U.S. Census Bureau's 2020 cartographic boundary file for Pennsylvania county subdivisions, filtered to Huntingdon County. 43 of 48 municipalities currently have at least one story.
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Did 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.…
3 sourcesBroad Top City BoroughBroad 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…
4 sourcesMapleton BoroughBorn 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 being…
3 sourcesShirleysburg BoroughPurdue'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 October 31,…
3 sourcesMount Union BoroughAetna 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 news. August 5,…
4 sourcesHuntingdon BoroughHuntingdon's Grand Courthouse Towers OverDid you know? Huntingdon tore down a courthouse people loved, and fifty five years later they were still sore about it. The county's second courthouse went…
4 sources43 food and drink businesses and 107 things to do, each with an address, a telephone number where one is published, and a link back to the Visitors Bureau listing it came from.
Sports Six districts, one college, five national titlesWho plays in which conference, which municipalities each district draws from, and the volleyball programme at Juniata College that has won five NCAA Division III championships.