Founded on the site of on Oneida Indian village called Standing Stone in 1767 by Dr. William Smith. Smith was the first Provost of the University of Pennsylvania and named the town after Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, who had contributed generously in the fund-raising campaigns for the university.

It is the county seat of Huntingdon County and a busy, prosperous industrial town of 7,330 population. The town's oldest industrial enterprise is the J. C. Blair Co., manufacturers of paper tablets. Other products include boilers, machines, sewer pipe, radiators, and fiber glass (Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp.).

Juniata College, whose dormitories have been called "The Cloisters" because of their similarity to Ephrata "Cloisters," was founded here in 1876.

The Pennsylvania Industrial School, originally established as a penitentiary in 1878, but converted to an industrial reformatory for boys, is located on a 664-acre tract on the northern edge of town.

MT. UNION, Pennsylvania

The town, at the foot of Jack's Mountain, was laid out by a lumbering firm in 1849. A ferry, which crossed the Juniata River at this location, was in service as early as 1790. The 1950 census shows its population to be 4,690. Located in an area largely devoted to agriculture, lumbering and quarrying, its manufactured products are mostly creosoted lumber, bricks and clothing.

LEWISTOWN, Pennsylvania

Located near the western end of Lewistown Narrows, the town was laid out in 1790 on the site of the Shawnee Indian village of Ohesson. Growth and prosperity came to the town first in 1829 with the opening of the Pennsylvania Canal to that point, and later with the arrival of the railroad.

Today it is a thriving industrial town of 13,894 population and serves as the mercantile center of the surrounding farm and dairy country. The Standard Steel Works Division, a subsidiary of the Baldwin-LimaHamilton Corp., and a branch of the American Viscose Corp., one of the largest manufacturers of rayon yarn, are located here.

For the twelve-month period ending August 31, 1957, the freight gross revenue from this station amounted to $2,018,604 and the passenger gross was $208,196.

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania

John Harris, licensed in 1705 as an Indian trader, established a trading post and built a ford across the Susquehanna River at the head of the Cumberland and Lebanon Valleys in 1710. A grant of some 800 acres was obtained by him from the provincial government in 1733-this was later validated through a treaty between the Penn heirs and the