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Bedford County was created on March 9, 1771, from part of Cumberland County and named in honor of Fort Bedford. The 1767 Mason–Dixon line had stabilized the southern border with Maryland. In the aftermath of the American Revolution, the population increased largely due to emigration. Within a lifetime Old Bedford County was greatly reduced ...
In 1964, the U.S. poverty rate (income-based) included 19 percent of Americans. Rising political forces demanded change. Under a new White House Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), the concept of the federally-funded, local Community Action Program (CAP)—delivered by a local Community Action Agency (CAA), in a nationwide Community Action Network—would become the primary vehicle for a new ...
The township is located in southern Bedford County in the Cumberland Valley, a narrow Appalachian valley bounded by Wills Mountain to the west and Evitts Mountain to the east. Evitts Creek, a tributary of the North Branch Potomac River, flows southwards through the valley, and U.S. Route 220 passes through the center of the valley as well.
The unincorporated community of Clearville is located in north-central Monroe Township, [3] along Pennsylvania Route 26. According to the United States Census Bureau , the township has a total area of 87.7 square miles (227.1 km 2 ), of which 87.6 square miles (226.8 km 2 ) is land and 0.077 square miles (0.2 km 2 ), or 0.11%, is water.
Bedford County is a United States county located in the Piedmont region of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Its county seat is the town of Bedford , which was an independent city from 1968 until rejoining the county in 2013.
Liberty Township is located along the northern border of Bedford County. It includes the unincorporated community of Stonerstown. The borough of Saxton is surrounded by the township but is not part of it. Warriors Path State Park is located south of Saxton, on the inside of a long bend in the Raystown Branch of the Juniata River.
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Manns Choice is located in west-central Bedford County at (40.002836, -78.591440), [4] in the valley of the Raystown Branch of the Juniata Buffalo Mountain and Wills Mountain rise to the east. The borough is mostly surrounded by Harrison Township , but it is bordered by Napier Township to the northwest.