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Juniata County, Pennsylvania, Juniata County
Juniata may refer to: Places in the United States In Michigan *Juniata Station, Michigan or ''Juniata'', a railway station in Fremont Township, Tuscola County *Juniata Township, Michigan, a civil township of Tuscola County In Nebraska *Juniata Township, Adams County, Nebraska **Juniata, Nebraska, a village in Juniata Township In Pennsylvania *Juniata, Philadelphia, a neighborhood in Philadelphia *Juniata College, a private, liberal arts college in Huntingdon *Juniata County, Pennsylvania *Juniata River, a tributary of the Susquehanna River and source for most of the other names *Juniata Terrace, Pennsylvania, a borough in Mifflin County *Juniata Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania *Juniata Township, Blair County, Pennsylvania *Juniata Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania *Juniata Township, Perry County, Pennsylvania Ships *, the name of various United States Navy ships * SS ''Juniata'', former name of the ''Milwaukee Clipper'', a Great Lakes steamer Other * Onojutt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juniata Station, Michigan
Fremont Township is a civil township A civil township is a widely used unit of local government in the United States that is subordinate to a county, most often in the northern and midwestern parts of the country. The term town is used in New England, New York, and Wisconsin to ref ... of Tuscola County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 3,312 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 Census. Communities *Mayville, Michigan, Mayville is a village on M-24 (Michigan highway), M-24 in the southeast corner of the township. *Juniata or Juniata Station was a Port Huron and Northwestern Railway station on the western edge of section 30 in the township, on the boundary with Vassar Township, Michigan, Vassar Township at . A hotel known as Kelley's Tavern, which opened there in 1864, was the first house open for public lodging [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juniata Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania
Juniata Township is a township in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 436 at the 2020 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which is land and (17.85%) is water. Adjacent Municipalities All municipalities are located in Huntingdon County unless otherwise noted. * Smithfield Township * Henderson Township * Union Township * Walker Township * Penn Township Demographics At the 2010 census there were 554 people and 235 households within the township. The population density was 33.6 people per square mile (13.0/km). There were 451 housing units at an average density of 21.3/sq mi (8.2/km). The racial makeup A race is a categorization of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into groups generally viewed as distinct within a given society. The term came into common usage during the 1500s, when it was used to refer to groups of variou ... of the township was 99 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juniata Terminal Company
Juniata Terminal Co. is a locomotive leasing and railcar storage company. The company takes its name from the facility in Philadelphia from which it operates. The company owns a number of restored diesel locomotives, including a pair of former Conrail EMD E8s which have been meticulously overhauled and painted in the Pennsylvania Railroad wide-stripe paint scheme. These two units often pull the company's private passenger cars, and can be seen on special excursions with Amtrak equipment. As of 2019, these units are not in operation due to a decision by the owner not to retrofit them with positive train control (PTC). Traffic on most Class I railroad main lines were required to be equipped with PTC by 2019 in accordance with the Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008 The Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008 is a United States federal law, enacted by Congress to improve railroad safety. Among its provisions, the most notable was the mandate requiring positive train control (PTC) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juniata Formation
The Ordovician Juniata Formation is a mapped bedrock unit in Pennsylvania and Maryland. It is a relative slope-former occurring between the two prominent ridge-forming sandstone units: the Tuscarora Formation and the Bald Eagle Formation in the Appalachian Mountains. Description The Juniata is defined as a grayish-red to greenish-gray, thin- to thick-bedded siltstone, shale, and very fine to medium-grained crossbedded sandstone or subgraywacke and protoquartzite with interbedded conglomerate.Berg, T.M., Edmunds, W.E., Geyer, A.R. and others, compilers, (1980). Geologic Map of Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Geologic Survey, Map 1, scale 1:250,000. The Juniata is a lateral equivalent of the Queenston Shale in western Pennsylvania. Depositional environment The depositional environment of the Juniata has always been interpreted as mostly terrestrial or shallow marine deposits resulting in a molasse sequence produced by the Taconic orogeny. Fossils Very few fossils exist in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penn Central
The Penn Central Transportation Company, commonly abbreviated to Penn Central, was an American Railroad classes, class I railroad that operated from 1968 to 1976. Penn Central combined three traditional corporate rivals (the Pennsylvania Railroad, Pennsylvania, New York Central Railroad, New York Central and the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, New York, New Haven and Hartford railroads), all united by heavy service into the New York metropolitan area and (to a lesser extent) New England and Chicago. The new company failed barely two years after formation, the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history at the time. The Penn Central's railroad assets were nationalized into Conrail along with the other bankrupt northeastern roads; its real estate and insurance holdings successfully Reorganization, reorganized into American Premier Underwriters. History Pre-merger The Penn Central railroad system developed in response to challenges facing Northeast United States, northeaste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pennsylvania Railroad
The Pennsylvania Railroad (reporting mark PRR), legal name The Pennsylvania Railroad Company also known as the "Pennsy", was an American Class I railroad that was established in 1846 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was named for the commonwealth in which it was established. By 1882, Pennsylvania Railroad had become the largest railroad (by traffic and revenue), the largest transportation enterprise, and the largest corporation in the world. Its budget was second only to the U.S. government. Over the years, it acquired, merged with, or owned part of at least 800 other rail lines and companies. At the end of 1926, it operated of rail line;This mileage includes companies independently operated. PRR miles of all tracks, which includes first (or main), second, third, fourth, and sidings, totalled 28,040.49 at the end of 1926. in the 1920s, it carried nearly three times the traffic as other railroads of comparable length, such as the Union Pacific and Atchison, T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juniata (train)
Juniata may refer to: Places in the United States In Michigan *Juniata Station, Michigan or ''Juniata'', a railway station in Fremont Township, Tuscola County *Juniata Township, Michigan, a civil township of Tuscola County In Nebraska *Juniata Township, Adams County, Nebraska **Juniata, Nebraska, a village in Juniata Township In Pennsylvania *Juniata, Philadelphia, a neighborhood in Philadelphia *Juniata College, a private, liberal arts college in Huntingdon *Juniata County, Pennsylvania *Juniata River, a tributary of the Susquehanna River and source for most of the other names *Juniata Terrace, Pennsylvania, a borough in Mifflin County *Juniata Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania *Juniata Township, Blair County, Pennsylvania *Juniata Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania *Juniata Township, Perry County, Pennsylvania Ships *, the name of various United States Navy ships * SS ''Juniata'', former name of the ''Milwaukee Clipper'', a Great Lakes steamer Other * Onojutt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Onojutta-Haga
The Onojutta-Haga or Juniata (Iotteca) people were natives of areas adjacent to the Juniata River and its tributaries in the southern part of what is now Pennsylvania. History The Onojutta-Haga, like many small bands of indigenous peoples of the interior of Pennsylvania, are very poorly known. By 1648 they were forced auxiliaries of the more powerful Susquehannock, an Iroquoian-speaking tribe, and may have ultimately been at least partially assimilated. When the Susquehannock were subjugated and dispersed from the Susquehanna Valley, the Onojutta-Haga were likely included in their number. Language The Onojutta-Haga or Juniata were an Iroquoian-speaking group. They were part of a language and cultural family that also included the Erie people and, by 1722, the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, or ''Haudenosaunee The Iroquois ( or ), officially the Haudenosaunee ( meaning "people of the longhouse"), are an Iroquoian Peoples, Iroquoian-speaking Confederation#Indige ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
