Borough · Huntingdon County

Dudley

2 stories on file, each with its sources. 0.3 square miles of land in the ridge and valley country of central Pennsylvania.

184

Population

2020 Census, P.L. 94-171

0.33 sq mi

Land area

2020 Census gazetteer

1,457 ft

Elevation

Community reference point, checked against USGS

Borough

Type

GEOID 4206120152

The founding record

Dudley began as a mining village in 1859 and was named after a place in England. A Catholic church had been established here in 1857 and the settlement grew up around the church. In the summer of 1876 a movement was started to have the place incorporated as a borough, which was finally done on November 13, 1876, with William Brown as the first chief burgess. In 1910 the population of Dudley was 440, an increase of 150 over the census of 1900. John W. Jordan, ed., History of the Juniata Valley and Its People (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing, 1913) · character 226,439 of the scanned text

Quoted from a work published before 1929 and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Spelling and punctuation are as printed, including nineteenth century spellings of place names. Scanned text carries optical character recognition errors; the character offset is given so the passage can be found and checked in the original.

2 stories

Stories from Dudley

Houses and the Methodist church on the northern side of Washington Street at the Second Street intersection, Dudley, PennsylvaniaPhotograph by the Wikimedia Commons contributor Nyttend, 21 March 2015. Public domain. Dudley Methodist church.jpg

Houses and the Methodist church on the north side of Washington Street where it meets Second, photographed in March 2015. Dudley is a small borough on the Broad Top, and although three places in the country carry the name, only one of them is in Pennsylvania.

What the fact check changed. The photographer's description names Dudley, Pennsylvania. The Census place table holds three places named Dudley, in Georgia, Missouri and Pennsylvania - one each - so naming the state is enough to place this one.

Sources

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From the county histories, on Dudley borough. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1883, including the spelling of the day and the errors the scanner made. It has not been rewritten, summarised or added to.

In the Upper story is the lodge-room, and the floor above the basement is used for church and Sunday-school purposes. S. BorouGH or DupLEY., In what is now Dudley borough commenced as a village. At that time the land on which it stands belonged Wattson, Orbison, Dorris & Co. and the Huntingdon and Broad Top Railroad Company. The completion of the railroad to this point gave to mining an impetus which resulted in the springing village here. It was named Dudley, after a place of that name in England. It reached its greatest growth about 1864, after which time it slightly diminished in population till 1882, when an increase commenced. Incorporation., In the summer of 1876 William Brown and thirty-nine other freeholders of the village petitioned the court for a borough charter. The application was approved by the grand jury, and on the 13th of November in that year the court decreed that the town be incorporated asa borough, and constituted a separate election and school district.J. Simpson Africa, History of Huntingdon and Blair Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1883) · character 1,531,480 of the scanned text

Sources

J. Simpson Africa, History of Huntingdon and Blair Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1883)

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