Union: mills, forges and the iron trade

From the county histories, on Union township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1913, including the spelling of the day and the errors the scanner made. It has not been rewritten, summarised or added to.

Walter Hudson built a log mill on Trough creek some time between and 1800. the first in the township. Paradise furnace and Eagle foundry were both located in this township, but they ceased operations long since. Union township was taken from Hopewell in June, 1791. Before the erection of Cass and Tod townships it included nearly all of the Trough creek valley, extending from the Juniata river on the north to the Broad Top mountain on the south, and from Jack's mountain on the east to Terrace mountain on the west. Settlements were made some years before the township was organized. The borough of Mapleton is located in this township and there are a few small villages within its limits.John W. Jordan, ed., History of the Juniata Valley and Its People (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing, 1913) · character 204,559 of the scanned text

Quoted from the county histories

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