The G. W. Radle Store

The G. W. Radle store, one family's answer to the question, "How do you feed a boom town?" With supply lines, trust, and willingness to extend credit between paydays. Radle and a hundred stores like it kept Mount Union running.

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Springfield ; on the south and southwest by Fulton county, and on the northwest by Wood and Tod townships. Benjamin Long, Henry Hubbell, George, John and William Hudson, Thomas Green, George Ashman, John Kyler, William and Miles Bunn, Thomas Hooper, Richard Bradley and some others had located in what is now Clay township before the close of the eighteenth century. The boroughs of Saltillo and Three Springs are located in this township and there are a few villages of minor importance. The East Broad Top railroad crosses the northern portion, passing through Saltillo and Three Springs. Cromwell township was taken from the townships of Shirley and Springfield and was organized in January, 1836. It was named for Thomas T. Cromwell, who was one of the early manufacturers of iron in Huntingdon county, and who served two terms in the lower house of the state legislature. On the north it is bounded by Shirley township; on the east by Shade mountain, which separates it from Dublin and Tell townships ; on the south by Clay and Springfield, and on the west by Jack's mountain, which marks the line between it and Cass township. The principal stream is the Aughwick creek, which flows through the township from south to north. One of the first white men to locate in the township was George Irvin, who, as early as 1760, had a log store near where Orbisonia now stands and was engaged in trading with the Indians.John W. Jordan, ed., History of the Juniata Valley and Its People (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing, 1913) · character 181,404 of the scanned text

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