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Prominent meander in the Raystown Branch near Breezewood. Bedford County, Pennsylvania is situated along the western border of the Ridge and Valley physiographic province, which is characterized by folded and faulted sedimentary rocks of early to middle Paleozoic age.
In the 1890s—the first telephones are installed in the village by the Raystown Branch Telephone Company. [8] As the population grew, so did the one room school houses and churches in the village and surrounding township. ‘There was a doctor on 24-hour call who traveled by horse and buggy, and a midwife who delivered many babies.' [9]
Raystown Lake is a reservoir in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. It is the largest lake that is entirely within Pennsylvania. The original lake was built by the Simpson family of Huntingdon as a hydroelectric project. The current 8,300-acre (34 km 2) Raystown Lake was completed in 1973 by the Army Corps of Engineers. Raystown is around 200 feet ...
Allegheny Electric Cooperative operates the Raystown Hydroelectric Project and William F. Matson Generating Station, a 21 MW, two-unit hydroelectric project located at the Raystown Dam in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. [1]
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The Terrace Mountain Trail is a 25.9-mile (41.7 km) linear hiking trail in south-central Pennsylvania, United States, which is mostly parallel to the shore of Raystown Lake. [1] The trail is open to both hiking and mountain biking. [2] The trail is maintained by the US Army Corps of Engineers as part of its management of the Raystown Lake ...
Huntingdon's Herncane Broom Factory was founded in 1863 by Benjamin F. Herncane. The 1897 Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley reported that the factory's output was twenty-five dozens per day and furnished "all the brooms used by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company." The company employed 14 workers and 3 traveling salesman.
‘The first telephone company entirely located within Penn Township was called the Raystown Branch Telephone Company. It was commonly called the ‘Buttermilk line’. Having thirty six subscribers. Poles and wire were maintained by them. The line had one wire and used the earth as the second, a ground wire.’(1896) [10]