Walker: the village, the store and the post office

From the county histories, on Walker 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.

Walker township extends from Piney ridge, which separates it from Juniata township on the southeast, to Tussey's mountain, dividing it from Blair county on the southwest. Its northern boundary is Porter township, and its southwestern Penn. It was named in honor of the Hon. Jonathan Walker, at one time President Judge of the judicial district to which Huntingdon county belonged. The route of travel in 1748, and previously, was through this township. A tract of land within it, lying on the Juniata river, was warranted in 1755. The site upon which McConnellstown now stands is mentioned in very early records as a "sleeping place." The town was laid out by Alexander McConnell, Esq., of HunHISTORY tingdon, after whom it was named. It is about half a mile from the Huntingdon and Broad Top railroad and contains the only post-office in the township. Additions were laid out Sangree and Joseph McCoy.Milton Scott Lytle, History of Huntingdon County (Lancaster: William H. Roy, 1876) · character 583,893 of the scanned text

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