Juniata

From the county histories, on Juniata 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.

The statement that Jane, for that was her name, twisted the^ow's tail is perhaps merely a twist of the imagination. The heroine after becoming Mrs. Dowling, removed to the Raystown branch. One of her sons, William Dowling, is still living at an advanced age among the ridges of Juniata township. On the opposite side of Shaver's creek from the site of Anderson's fort, now stands the borough of Petersburg. The plan of the town was acknowledged by Dr. Peter Shoenberger, on the 21st day of May, 1795, and was recorded on the 2Sth day of the same month. He had probably laid it out but short time before those dates. It was incorporated as a borough, April 7th, 1830. Located upon the Pennsylvania canal, recently abandoned, however, through that portion of the county, and railroad, and being the nearest shipping point to the rich farming region of Porter, West, Barree, and Jackson townships, its prosperity always has been assured, and we can foresee no circumstance that can possibly prevent its steady improvement and growth in the future. The last five or six years have seen the erection of several large and substantial business houses and dwellings, and there has been an increase of population to correspond with its progress in other respects.Milton Scott Lytle, History of Huntingdon County (Lancaster: William H. Roy, 1876) · character 571,223 of the scanned text

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From the county histories, on Juniata 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.

After Joseph Pridmore had built his grist-mill, which stood near the site of the furnace, the main stream was known as Pridmore's Mill Creek, and when Caleb Armitage became proprietor the name was changed to Armitage's Mill Creek. John Haun, of Juniata township, mentioned above, in a conversation with the writer Aug. 7, 1871, detailed his early experiences in Brady. From his statement the following facts are noted: The Haun! family, consisting of the father John, Juliana, his wife, Jacob, a son born Oct. 22, 1789, and John (the narrator), second son, born Aug. 3, 1791, moved in a wagon from Codorus township, York Co., in 1793, and settled on the Mill Creek farm owned by John Wartz. The dwelling-house was within Pridmore's fort; the stumps of the stockades were yet visible, and some of the block-houses remained; one of them was used to shelter the "shaving-horse." This fort included the ground on which Norris' hotel now stands. Wartz lived in the house that stood below the lower 1 The Juniata family spell the name Haun, while those in Brad y write it Hawn. 222 PENNSYLVANIA. end of the village. -He knew Joseph Eaton, the surveyor, who was a tall man; his wife's name was Bathsheba, and his step-mother (wife of David Eaton) was called " Betty," whence the name of " Betty Eaton's Spring," applied to the stream that issues from Rocky Ridge near where the family lived. He was under the impression her maiden name was Razor. David Eaton was the first man buried at Mill Creek.J. Simpson Africa, History of Huntingdon and Blair Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1883) · character 1,442,440 of the scanned text

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From the county histories, on Juniata 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.

Corbin is a leader in matters that affect public advancement, and in many ways has identified himself with popular progress in Juniata township. For many years he has been a school director, and in educational concerns takes a warm and active interest. In church affairs he is strong and earnest in his labors. He has been a member of the Baptist Church since 1845, and is now a deacon in the Juniata Baptist Church, of which he was one of the founders, and whose house of worship he erected and liberally supported with a handsome contribution. He is the superintendent of the Sabbath-school, a member of the home temperance organization, and a friend, in short, of all measures looking to the promotion of moral good. On the same stream, in the upper part of the township, and partly in Penn, William Enyeart began his improvements about 1770. During the Revolution he sought protection in the fort at Standing Stone, and when no Indians were supposed to be about tilled his farm in company with a neighbor by the name of Reed, who improved an adjoining tract of land, one standing guard while the other worked.J. Simpson Africa, History of Huntingdon and Blair Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1883) · character 1,961,450 of the scanned text

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The eastern end of the Corbin Bridge, which carries Township Road 428 over the Raystown Branch of the Juniata south-west of Huntingdon. A suspension bridge, built in 1937 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Photographed in May 1989 by Jet Lowe, the same engineering-record photographer whose plates of the Harbison-Walker works are elsewhere on this site.

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