This is the starting point for deeper profiles of Mount Union's neighborhoods, buildings, trails, industrial sites, gathering places, and surrounding communities. Each completed profile will connect the place visitors see today with the people and events that shaped it.
Major John C. Shaver’s 1818 home, later a refractory company office and the Memorial Home of Simpson–Hunt American Legion Post 107.
A quarrymen's commute, the geology of Jacks Mountain, the dinky railroad, and the community campaign that preserved the trail.
The planned industrial village, its six house designs, schools, community life, and an 18-photograph Library of Congress record.
A researched community history of glass-sand quarrying, the Pennsylvania Railroad, Jack’s Narrows, local landmarks, and the floods of 1936 and 1972—paired with a 60-image archive.
An early settlement transformed by the Pennsylvania Main Line Canal, the railroad and the Juniata River—with a historic schoolhouse preserving the community’s story today.
The 1905 suburb laid out by Allen S. Welch beside the Juniata River and East Broad Top Railroad—with a rare period view and the story of its homes, businesses and industries.
From George Croghan’s Aughwick trading post and Fort Shirley to a nineteenth-century borough of schools, crafts, newspapers and East Broad Top trains.
The brick works, its production buildings, industrial history, and the complete 20-image Library of Congress HAER record.
From Carl Shoemaker’s 1948 vision to a 583-acre center for accessible recreation, community, and independence.
The former general-aviation field and its 2002 transformation into a Mount Union Fire Company fundraising and event property.
How Agape Farm became a temporary summer city of music, worship and camping from 1984 through the festival's final gathering in 2022.
The family-built quarter-mile dirt oval, its micro sprints and stock cars, the Whitsel family, and three decades of racing near Orbisonia.
The Pennsylvania Railroad, East Broad Top, freight yards, stations and Juniata River crossings.
Historic buildings, community institutions, Beacon Lodge, the Mount Union Historic District, and more.
The industrial system that connected the mountain quarries, railroads, refractory plants, and generations of workers.
Future location pages can give the same full treatment to the East Broad Top interchange, the historic business district, the Juniata River and canal corridor, and other places with strong records and photographs.
The Pennsylvania Main Line Canal, Pennsylvania Railroad, East Broad Top interchange, bridges, yards, and stations.
Explore the transportation story →Explore the plant complex, production buildings, industrial history, and twenty HAER photographs preserved by the Library of Congress.
View the complete collection →The Flat, Ganister Hill, the historic commercial core, and the communities created by migration and industry.