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The Juniata River (/ ˌ dʒ uː n i ˈ æ t ə /) [1] is a tributary of the Susquehanna River, approximately 104 miles (167 km) long, [2] in central Pennsylvania. The river is considered scenic along much of its route, having a broad and shallow course passing through several mountain ridges and steeply lined water gaps .
The path made use of one of the few so-called gaps of the Allegheny that accompanied the feedwater streams draining into the Juniata River, a tributary of the Susquehanna that terminated on the Allegheny River due Northeast of Pittsburgh in what is now Armstrong County, Pennsylvania at the Native American Kittanning Village (at present-day ...
The Raystown Branch Juniata River is the largest and longest tributary of the Juniata River in south-central Pennsylvania in the United States. [4]The Raystown Branch Juniata River begins along the Allegheny Front in Somerset County and flows 123 miles (198 km) to the confluence with the Juniata River near Huntingdon. [5]
The streams cutting those various gaps either let out into the Susquehanna River tributaries, the Juniata River, or the West Branch of the Susquehanna, so gave the rich Pennsylvania Dutch country access to the interior and the ramp-like valleys climbing to the divide, as did the Main Branch of the Susquehanna and its tributaries climbing to the ...
The Frankstown Branch Juniata River is a 46.0-mile-long (74.0 km) [1] tributary of the Juniata River in Blair and Huntingdon counties, Pennsylvania, in the United States. [ 2 ] The headwater tributaries of the Frankstown Branch rise on the slopes of the Allegheny Front south of Altoona .
The Narrows is a water gap where the Raystown Branch of the Juniata River passes through Evitts Mountain in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. Both U.S. Route 30 (part of the Lincoln Highway) and the Pennsylvania Turnpike pass through the gap. It is located in the townships of Snake Spring and Bedford.
Juniata County was formed on March 2, 1831, from parts of Mifflin County. It is named after the Juniata River. The word "juniata" itself is a Seneca word that means either "people of the standing stone" or "blue waters". The first boroughs in the county to be settled were Mifflintown and Thompsontown, which were settled in 1790.
Thus the Little Juniata was (and still is) listed as a commercially "navigable" river. The Little Juniata River is a good spot for fly fishing; it holds a Class A population of wild brown trout and requires no stocking. Accident on the Pennsylvania Central Railroad, on the river near Birmingham, Huntingdon County; Harper's Weekly, January 14, 1864