Township · Huntingdon County
2 stories on file, each with its sources. 15.3 square miles of land in the ridge and valley country of central Pennsylvania.
Hopewell township was erected in July, 1773, when the Bedford county court ordered that "that part of Barre township including all the waters that empty into the Raystown Branch of Juniata below the mouth of Yellow Creek and up said creek to Tussey's Mountain is hereby erected into a township by the name of Hopewell township." It was therefore one of the six original townships when the county was erected in 1787. John W. Jordan, ed., History of the Juniata Valley and Its People (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing, 1913) · character 188,069 of the scanned text
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Another frame from Ron Shawley's November 2014 run around the Raystown Lake country. He gave the whole series one caption and named no township, so this one was placed the same way the others were.
From the county histories, on Hopewell township. 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.
Cook's Run rises on Broad Top Mountain, and runs southwesterly, to unite near Dudley with a small stream from the south and form Shoup's Run, which pursues a tortuous course through the southwestern part of the township, and debouches into Raystown Branch in Hopewell township. Miller's Run, Sugar Camp Run, and another stream in the western part of the township unite with Shoup's Run in its course. Highways., The most important highways in the township are one that passes from New Grenada, in Fulton County, to Robertsdale and to Broad Top City, and down the valley of Shoup's Run to Saxton, in Bedford County; another from Wells' tannery, in Fulton County, that passes northeasterly through Broad Top City and into Tod township; and two roads that lead southerly from Dudley and Coalmont respectively. The Huntingdon and Broad Top Railroad enters the township at its southwestern corner, and follows the valley of Shoup's Run to a point two miles above Dudley. The East Broad Top Railroad follows the valley of Trough Creek from the northeastern boundary of the township to Robertsdale. The coal-mines in the township are opened along the valleys of Shoup's Run and Trough Creek, where the railroads afford transportation for their products. The other portions of the township are very sparsely settled. There are two saw-mills remaining in the township, one on Sideling Hill Creek, and the other on Shoup's Run. Both are, like most of the saw-mills in this region, passing to decay.J. Simpson Africa, History of Huntingdon and Blair Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1883) · character 1,487,698 of the scanned text
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