Walker township

Not A Ton Of Lead Ore

Did you know? Shafts were once sunk into Warrior Ridge near McConnellstown, and all the diggings together did not produce a ton of lead ore.

A mile northeast of McConnellstown, shafts were sunk and tunnels driven into the lowest hard limestones of Warrior Ridge. Lumps of galena, which is lead ore, were found in the veins of calcite that branch through the rock. But not a ton of lead ore came out of all the diggings.

The state geologist's report of 1885 put it plainly: "It is quite safe to say that neither lead ore nor zinc ore will ever be profitably mined from the Lewistown limestone formation of this county."

Checked and confirmed. CONFIRMED 2026-10-03 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

I. C. White, The Geology of Huntingdon County (Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, Report T3, 1885)

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The house at Robb Farm in Walker Township.Generic1139 · stg05

The barn at Robb Farm, a historic home and farm located at Walker Township in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania.Photograph by Generic1139, 2014-09-06. Licensed CC BY-SA 3.0; reused with credit, and the same licence travels with any derivative · Robb Farm barn.jpg

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