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Porter township

Henry Knode's Nine Hundred Acres

Did you know? Henry Knode, a farmer born in Washington County, Maryland, moved in September 1810 to the part of Huntingdon County that became Porter Township in November 1814, and there he died. Jordan's 1913 history says that on his nine hundred acres of land in Huntingdon County he raised all kinds of farm products, and that he also gave part of his time to stock, with unqualified success.

He was a soldier in the War of 1812 and served as a lieutenant. In 1825 he built a barn on his place, which Jordan reported was still standing in 1913.

He married Mary Huyett of Maryland. Both lived to be very old, and he died in Porter Township at the age of eighty-seven. Their son Lewis, born in Washington County, Maryland, in 1810, moved with his parents to Porter Township when quite young, bought part of the Knode estate and later acquired the rest.

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. 3 (1913)
  2. Milton Scott Lytle, History of Huntingdon County (1876)

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

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The remains of the Barree Furnace stack, the work arch at the centre, photographed for the National Park Service survey of the county's industrial sites in 1991.The remains of the Barree Furnace stack, the work arch at the centre, photographed for the National Park Service survey of the county's industrial sites in 1991.Nancy S. Shedd et al., Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania: An Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial Sites ( , National Park Service, 1991), photograph 4 · stg06
Pulpit Rocks, Warrior Ridge, Huntingdon CoPulpit Rocks, Warrior Ridge, Huntingdon CoLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. No known restrictions on publication · 2015650273
Diamond Valley Railroad cars and a group of menDiamond Valley Railroad cars and a group of menShared by Myer Souders
The two-family workers’ house at the Juniata Iron Works.The two-family workers’ house at the Juniata Iron Works.Nancy S. Shedd et al., Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania: An Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial Sites ( , National Park Service, 1991), photograph 16 · shd016
Water going over the spillway at Warrior Ridge, with the Ambursen dam and the power plant to the right.Water going over the spillway at Warrior Ridge, with the Ambursen dam and the power plant to the right.Nancy S. Shedd et al., Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania: An Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial Sites ( , National Park Service, 1991), photograph 111, photograph by Jet Lowe · shd111
the Porter Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania municipal building. Photo taken from Pennsylvania Route 305 (Bridge Street) looking east-southeast.the Porter Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania municipal building. Photo taken from Pennsylvania Route 305 (Bridge Street) looking east-southeast.Photograph by Mr. Matté, 2024-08-20. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; reused with credit, and the same licence travels with any derivative · Porter Twp., Huntingdon Co., PA municipal building, Aug. 2024.jpg

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