Lincoln

From the county histories, on Lincoln 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.

Yellow Branch, Sugar Creek, and Haw Run are the principal affluents of Trough Creek in this township. Another stream runs southeasterly along the base of Terrace Mountain, and after uniting with Tatman's Run passes through a gap in this mountain and empties into Raystown Branch in Lincoln township. Three principal highways traverse the eastern part of the township in a northeasterly and southwesterly direction, and another pursues a like course through the valley at the base of Terrace Mountain, in the eastern part, known as Illinois Valley. Another follows the valley of Trough Creek in an easterly and westerly direction, through nearly the middle of the township. East Broad Top Railroad crosses the southeastern corner of the township. Agriculture is almost the sole industry in the township. The farms are in the valleys and on the sides of the ridges and hills by which the township is traversed. ` The soil is fertile, especially in the valleys. The produce raised here formerly found its market at places on the line of the Pennsylvania Canal, but since mining operations became active in this region there has been a demand here for all the surplus produce that could be raised. The township includes no boroughs, but has two villages.J. Simpson Africa, History of Huntingdon and Blair Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1883) · character 2,375,475 of the scanned text

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From the county histories, on Lincoln 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.

Of the original members of this church but one, Nicholas Lynn, of Lincoln township, is now living. Methodist Episcopal Church of Hopewell., The first Methodist preaching in the township of Hopewell was about the year 1857. Among the earliest preachers who came here the names are remembered of Revs. Clever, Graham, Leckey, McKindless, Long, and White.. Others whose names are forgotten occasionally held services here. 292 The first house of worship was a school-house at Rough and Ready Furnace, then the Weaver schoolhouse. Services were held here without the formation of a class or society till 1877, when a church organization was effected, of which the constituent members were Mrs. Elizabeth Myers and her daughters Margaret and Hannah, Mrs. Elizabeth Bussick, John Bullar, Mrs. Emeline Snow, and Thomas Keith. Mr. Keith was the first class-leader, and continues in that position. In a framed church was erected in Woodcock Valley, half a mile north from Shy Beaver post-office. plain edifice, thirty-eight by thirty feet, and its cost was one thousand dollars.J. Simpson Africa, History of Huntingdon and Blair Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1883) · character 1,898,705 of the scanned text

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Ron Shawley photographed the Raystown Lake country in the first week of November 2014 and gave the whole series one caption: Raystown lake Region late Fall. It names no township, and it did not need to - the file carries the coordinates the camera recorded, and the Census places that point in Lincoln township.

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