Juniata: getting there: roads, rails and the river

From the county histories, on Juniata township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1876, including the spelling of the day and the errors the scanner made. It has not been rewritten, summarised or added to.

The statement that Jane, for that was her name, twisted the^ow's tail is perhaps merely a twist of the imagination. The heroine after becoming Mrs. Dowling, removed to the Raystown branch. One of her sons, William Dowling, is still living at an advanced age among the ridges of Juniata township. On the opposite side of Shaver's creek from the site of Anderson's fort, now stands the borough of Petersburg. The plan of the town was acknowledged by Dr. Peter Shoenberger, on the 21st day of May, 1795, and was recorded on the 2Sth day of the same month. He had probably laid it out but short time before those dates. It was incorporated as a borough, April 7th, 1830. Located upon the Pennsylvania canal, recently abandoned, however, through that portion of the county, and railroad, and being the nearest shipping point to the rich farming region of Porter, West, Barree, and Jackson townships, its prosperity always has been assured, and we can foresee no circumstance that can possibly prevent its steady improvement and growth in the future. The last five or six years have seen the erection of several large and substantial business houses and dwellings, and there has been an increase of population to correspond with its progress in other respects.Milton Scott Lytle, History of Huntingdon County (Lancaster: William H. Roy, 1876) · character 571,223 of the scanned text

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