G. W. Radle Store, Mount Union

The G. W. Radle store in Mount Union sold farm supplies. Farm Equipment and Farm Supplies, the signs read in the window glass. A Mail Pouch thermometer hung on the wall, and the photo captures the sidewalk too: kids and a dog, the texture of a small-town business day.

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The manage- ough Council, and had been appropriated for the purchase of equipments and the repainting of the engine. HUNTINGDON BOROUGH. 475 On the Fourth of July, 1853, the company participated in a celebration of the day. A year later the organization was disbanded. Other associations have since had charge of the engine. This engine was stationed for many years on the lot No. 516 Penn Street, and afterward at No. 510 Washington Street, on the site of the present engine- and council-house. ‘On Sunday morning, Sept. 27, 1840, the barn of Philip Shultz, that stood on the south end of lot No. 810 Allegheny Street, and the extensive stabling on the east connected with the Washington (since called the Exchange) Hotel, were discovered to be on fire. These buildings were well stored with hay and grain, and the fire raged so fiercely that it was only by the most vigilant efforts on the part of the citizens that the dwelling No. 312 and the hotel were saved from utter destruction. The experience of that morning satisfied the citizens that the " Juniata" would not be able to cope with a conflagration of greater proportions, and at once urged the borough authorities to provide additional means of security against the devouring element.J. Simpson Africa, History of Huntingdon and Blair Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1883) · character 3,013,411 of the scanned text

Springfield ; on the south and southwest by Fulton county, and on the northwest by Wood and Tod townships. Benjamin Long, Henry Hubbell, George, John and William Hudson, Thomas Green, George Ashman, John Kyler, William and Miles Bunn, Thomas Hooper, Richard Bradley and some others had located in what is now Clay township before the close of the eighteenth century. The boroughs of Saltillo and Three Springs are located in this township and there are a few villages of minor importance. The East Broad Top railroad crosses the northern portion, passing through Saltillo and Three Springs. Cromwell township was taken from the townships of Shirley and Springfield and was organized in January, 1836. It was named for Thomas T. Cromwell, who was one of the early manufacturers of iron in Huntingdon county, and who served two terms in the lower house of the state legislature. On the north it is bounded by Shirley township; on the east by Shade mountain, which separates it from Dublin and Tell townships ; on the south by Clay and Springfield, and on the west by Jack's mountain, which marks the line between it and Cass township. The principal stream is the Aughwick creek, which flows through the township from south to north. One of the first white men to locate in the township was George Irvin, who, as early as 1760, had a log store near where Orbisonia now stands and was engaged in trading with the Indians.John W. Jordan, ed., History of the Juniata Valley and Its People (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing, 1913) · character 181,404 of the scanned text

Checked 2026-10-04 · Historic Mount Union collection

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