Shade Gap borough

The post office at Shade Gap

The post office in Shade Gap, Huntingdon County, PennsylvaniaWhite Feather Safari Inspecting, via Wikimedia Commons. Creative Commons Attribution 2.0. CC BY 2.0

Shade Gap sits where the road goes through Shade Mountain, and a gap in a ridge is why most small towns in this county are where they are. This is the borough's first photograph on the site: its post office, in 2009.

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Photograph by the Flickr and Wikimedia contributor White Feather Safari Inspecting, 26 June 2009, licensed Creative Commons Attribution 2.0, and described by the photographer as "The post office in Shade Gap, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania".

Checked 2026-09-01 · Wikimedia Commons, openly licensed

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