Mount Dallas is a populated place in
Bedford County,
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a U.S. state, state spanning the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern United States, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes region, Great Lakes regions o ...
, United States. It is located in the
water gap
A water gap is a gap that flowing water has carved through a mountain range or mountain ridge and that still carries water today. Such gaps that no longer carry water currents are called wind gaps. Water gaps and wind gaps often offer a pract ...
of
Tussey Mountain
Tussey Mountain is a stratigraphy, stratigraphic ridge in central Pennsylvania, United States, trending east of the Bald Eagle Mountain, Bald Eagle, Brush Mountain (Blair County, Pennsylvania), Brush, Dunning Mountain, Dunning and Evitts Mountai ...
, approximately one mile (two kilometers) upstream of
Everett along the
Raystown Branch Juniata River. It was the northern terminus of the now dismantled
Bedford and Bridgeport Railroad formerly controlled by the
Pennsylvania Railroad
The Pennsylvania Railroad ( reporting mark PRR), legal name as 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. At its ...
, and was one of the main points for the planned
South Pennsylvania Railroad
The South Pennsylvania Railroad is the name given to two proposed, but never completed, railroads in Pennsylvania during the 19th century. Parts of the right-of-way (railroad), right of way for the second South Pennsylvania Railroad were reused f ...
that was never completed.
Mount Dallas is located at .
References
* USGS Everett West (PA) Topographic Map
Geographic Names Information System Feature ID: 1204223.
Unincorporated communities in Bedford County, Pennsylvania
Unincorporated communities in Pennsylvania
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