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The Huntingdon County History & Heritage Roundtable consists of representatives from local historical organizations. Our group is interested in sharing and preserving the history and heritage of Huntingdon County, PA established in 1787.
The county seat for the area is known as Huntingdon. It is located on the main line of the Norfolk Southern (formerly Pennsylvania) Railway, in an agricultural and outdoor recreational region with extensive forests and scattered deposits of ganister rock, coal, fire clay, and limestone. Historically, the region surrounding Huntingdon was dotted with iron furnaces and forges, consuming limestone, iron ore and wood (for charcoal production) throughout the 19th century. In 1768, Rev. Dr. William Smith began se