Huntingdon, Pennsylvania For other places in Pennsylvania with similar names, see Huntingdon, Pennsylvania .
Huntingdon, Pennsylvania Huntingdon, Pennsylvania is positioned in Pennsylvania Huntingdon, Pennsylvania - Huntingdon, Pennsylvania State Pennsylvania County Huntingdon School district: Huntingdon Area School District Website Huntingdon Borough Huntingdon is a borough in (and the governmental center of county of) Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, United States.
It is positioned along the Juniata River, approximately 32 miles (51 km) east of Altoona and 98 miles (158 km) west of Harrisburg.
The borough is positioned on the chief line of the Norfolk Southern (formerly Pennsylvania) Railroad, in an agricultural and outside recreational region with extensive forests and scattered deposits of ganister rock, coal, fire clay, and limestone.
Historically, the region encircling Huntingdon was dotted with iron furnaces and forges, consuming limestone, iron ore and wood (for charcoal production) throughout the 19th century.
Huntingdon is home to Juniata College, a private liberal arts college established by members of the Church of the Brethren in 1876, and branch campuses of Du - Bois Business College and Penn Highlands Community College.
In adjoining Smithfield Township (across the Juniata River) are the county-wide command posts of the Pennsylvania Game Commission (Southcentral Division) and the Bureau of Forestry (Rothrock State Forest).
State Game Lands 322 extends north from Huntingdon Borough in the direction of Petersburg.
Weaver Memorial Park (ball field and playground) at the end of 16th Street, Portstown Park along the Juniata River, and Blair Field bordering Standing Stone Creek.
In 2009, Huntingdon was titled by Budget Travel magazine's readers as the 5th Coolest Small Town in the United States.
In 2015, Huntingdon was chosen by Niche.com as the 7th Best City to Retire in Pennsylvania. Huntingdon is the nearest town to the Allegrippis Trail system, presently ranked #15 on the list of "The BEST Mountain Bike Trails in the World." William Smith began selling lots on the Standing Stone Tract along the Juniata, territory he had recently acquired.
Huntingdon (the name by which he eventually called his town) sits at the site of corn fields that had been cultivated at a date now unknown, next to where Standing Stone Creek flows into the Juniata River.
The 100th anniversary of its incorporation was marked by the erection of a "Standing Stone Monument" on Third Street, modeled on a tall, narrow shaft known to have existed before 1750, whose purpose is unclear but may have served as a trail marker.
A story surfaced amid the early 19th century that Smith had retitled Standing Stone Settlement to honor an Englishwoman, Selina, the Countess of Huntingdon, England.
More likely, the Anglican cleric titled it after the town of the same name in England; doing so had turn into a pattern for naming Pennsylvania settlements, Bedford, Carlisle and York being close-by examples of the trend.
Huntingdon long served as the junction of the Huntingdon and Broad Top Mountain Railroad with the Pennsylvania Railroad, and as an meaningful port on the Main Line of Public Works of the Pennsylvania Canal.
In past years, Huntingdon boasted of manufacturers of flour, heavy machinery, radiators, furniture, stationery, woolen goods, shirts, shoes, electronic components, rather than lumber, fiberglass yarn, matting and underground storage tanks.
His factory in downtown Huntingdon was later relocated to close-by Alexandria.
More recently in 2004, Hurricane Ivan resulted in primary flooding close to Huntingdon, the worst since the remnants of Hurricane Agnes stalled over the region in July 1972.
The Huntingdon Borough Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. Huntingdon County Sheriff's Office Huntingdon is positioned at 40 29 43 N 78 0 47 W (40.495187, -78.013147). Huntingdon According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the borough has a total region of 3.5 square miles (9.1 km2), of which only 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2) (2.55%) is water.
The following municipalities are also positioned in Huntingdon County, bordering on the Borough: Climate data for Huntingdon, Pennsylvania In the borough the populace was spread out, with 17.7% under the age of 18, 24.4% from 18 to 24, 19.1% from 25 to 44, 22.4% from 45 to 64, and 16.4% who were 65 years of age or older.
Juniata College (1700 Moore Street) Du - Bois Business College (1001 Moore Street) Pennsylvania Highlands Community College (6311 Margy Drive in Walker Township) Huntingdon County Career and Technology Center (11893 Technology Drive, Mill Creek, PA 17060) Huntingdon Area Senior High School- opened in 1960 (renovated 2004)- Grades 9-12 (2400 Cassady Avenue) Huntingdon Area Middle School- opened in 2012- Grades 6-8 (2500 Cassady Avenue) Standing Stone Elementary School- opened in 1999- Grades K-5-Huntingdon borough (10 West 29th Street) Calvary Christian Academy- Grades K-12 (300 Standing Stone Avenue) Huntingdon Christian Academy- Grades K-12 (Emmanuel Drive positioned in Walker Township) Huntingdon Borough Police Department (530 Washington Street) Huntingdon Ambulance Services (530 Washington Street) Huntingdon County Sheriff's Office (241 Mifflin Street) Huntingdon Health & Wellness Association (HHWA) (313 Fourth Street) Huntingdon Health Care, Inc.
Huntingdon Post Office (401 Washington Street) Huntingdon Post Office at Juniata College (1700 Moore Street) Huntingdon County Library (330 Penn Street) Huntingdon (Amtrak station) (Fourth & Allegheny Streets) The origin of the town/city water for Huntingdon borough and Smithfield Township is Standing Stone Creek, with the water treatment facility being positioned in the east end of the borough. Huntingdon's only airways broadcasts are WHUN Hunny 103.5 - FM, Bigfoot Country, and the Juniata College station WKVR 92.3 - FM, but radio broadcasts from other markets can also be heard: Radio stations in the Altoona, Pennsylvania market Radio stations in the Lewistown-Mifflintown, Pennsylvania market Radio stations in the State College, Pennsylvania market Huntingdon receives all tv programming from the Johnstown-Altoona-State College, PA media market.
Broadcast tv in West-Central Pennsylvania, including Johnstown, Altoona, State College, Du - Bois, Bedford and Clearfield Rotary Club of Huntingdon (10305 Raystown Road) Kiwanis Club of Huntingdon (2506 Shadyside Avenue) Huntingdon Food Pantry (5th & Mifflin Street) Huntingdon House Domestic Violence Shelter (401 7th Street) Huntingdon County Humane Society (11371 School House Hollow Road) Chuck Knox, American football coach with the Los Angeles Rams, Buffalo Bills, and Seattle Seahawks; attended Juniata College and married a Huntingdon native Huntingdon "Weatherbase: Weather for Huntingdon, Pennsynlvania".
"Incorporated Places and Minor Civil Divisions Datasets: Subcounty Resident Population Estimates: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2012".
Mayfest of Huntingdon.
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