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Stoystown is a
borough A borough is an administrative division in various English language, English-speaking countries. In principle, the term ''borough'' designates a self-governing walled town, although in practice, official use of the term varies widely. History ...
in Somerset County,
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, United States. It is part of the
Johnstown, Pennsylvania Johnstown is the largest city in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 18,411 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Located east of Pittsburgh, it is the principal city of the Metropolitan statistical area ...
, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 300 at the 2020 census. Stoystown is located south-southeast of Johnstown and northeast of
Somerset Somerset ( , ), Archaism, archaically Somersetshire ( , , ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by the Bristol Channel, Gloucestershire, and Bristol to the north, Wiltshire to the east ...
.


History

The site of the Stony Creek Encampment is near the eastern end of Stoystown, slightly north of
U.S. Route 30 U.S. Route 30 or U.S. Highway 30 (US 30) is an east–west main route of the United States Numbered Highway System, with the highway traveling across the Northern U.S. With a length of , it is the third-longest U.S. Highway, afte ...
. This small supply depot was located along
Forbes Road The Forbes Road, a historic military roadway in what was then British America, was initially completed in 1758 from Carlisle, Pennsylvania, to the French Fort Duquesne at the junction of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers in what is now d ...
during the
French & Indian War The French and Indian War, 1754 to 1763, was a colonial conflict in North America between Great Britain and France, along with their respective Native American allies. European historians generally consider it a related conflict of the wider ...
. Daniel Stoy was one of the first settlers west of the mountains. From the records of Harmon Husband, we find that Stoy lived along the Forbes Road about 1762 near the Casper Stotler place in Shade Township, that he made his living by hunting, and that he was driven from his cabin home several times by the Indians, taking refuge at Fort Bedford. The records of Husband state that on one occasion Stoy shot an Indian intruder from his cabin door. With the construction of the Pennsylvania Road, Stoy decided to move to a place about ten miles farther west along the road where he received a warrant for more than three hundred acres of land. Here on this tract of land along the Pennsylvania Road, he founded the town of Stoystown in 1774. Stoy served as a volunteer in the Revolutionary War with the rank of corporal. It is thought that he also served in the French and Indian War, although the records are rather vague. Henry was born in 1747. Married Sally Stoy, daughter of Daniel M. Stoy, who sold lots and laid out the town of Stoystown about 1800, one of the oldest towns in Somerset Co., Pennsylvania. Daniel M. Stoy served as captain in Gen. George Washington's army for 12 months. He was discharged at Long Island, New York, July 1778. Later he moved to what is now Somerset Co., Pennsylvania. He was a justice of the peace. He served in the General Assembly in 1809–10 and 1813. He died 1834. D.A.R. marker on grave. Daniel Stoy, born in England, May 3, 1738, died January 11, 1835, in Stoystown, Somerset Co., Pennsylvania. He was married about 1759 to Sarah Higgins of Scotland (April 4, 1737 – October 31, 1818. Soon after their marriage they came to America and located at Conchohockin, Pennsylvania, where their six children were born, viz., (1) Sarah (Sally), the oldest daughter, married Henry Beaver; (2)Daniel married a Miss Shedrick; (3)Ned never married; (4) John married Elizabeth Pisel; (5) William; (6) Margaret, the youngest child (Conchohockin, October 15, 1780 – December 6, 1868). She was 7 years old when her parents moved to what was then Bedford Co., now Somerset Co., Pennsylvania. She married Abraham Spangler and they had 14 children. Henry Beaver moved his family from Stoystown, Pennsylvania, to Greensburg, Westmoreland Co., Pennsylvania. They had one son that we know of, John F. Beaver, who read law at Greensburg, Pennsylvania. The Stoystown Historic District and Hite House are listed on the
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.


September 11 attacks

On
September 11, 2001 The September 11 attacks, also known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001. Nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners, crashing the first two into ...
,
United Airlines Flight 93 United Airlines Flight 93 was a domestic scheduled passenger flight that was hijacked by four al-Qaeda terrorists on the morning of September 11, 2001, as part of the September 11 attacks. The hijackers planned to crash the plane into a feder ...
crashed in nearby Stonycreek Township. The
Flight 93 National Memorial The Flight 93 National Memorial is a memorial built to commemorate the crash of United Airlines Flight 93, which was one of four aircraft hijacked during the September 11 attacks in 2001. The memorial is located in Somerset County, Pennsylva ...
is located in Stoystown.


Geography

Stoystown is located at (40.102753, -78.953869). The borough is surrounded by Quemahoning Township. According to the
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, the borough has a total area of , all land.


Demographics

As of the
census A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...
of 2000, there were 428 people, 184 households, and 117 families residing in the borough. The population density was . There were 201 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the borough was 99.77%
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and 0.23% Native American.
Hispanic The term Hispanic () are people, Spanish culture, cultures, or countries related to Spain, the Spanish language, or broadly. In some contexts, Hispanic and Latino Americans, especially within the United States, "Hispanic" is used as an Ethnici ...
or Latino of any race were 0.23% of the population. There were 184 households, out of which 26.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 53.3% were
married couples Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognised union between people called spouses. It establishes rights and obligations between them, as well as between them and their children (if any), and b ...
living together, 7.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 36.4% were non-families. 33.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 21.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.33 and the average family size was 2.99. In the borough the population was spread out, with 22.0% under the age of 18, 6.5% from 18 to 24, 24.5% from 25 to 44, 21.7% from 45 to 64, and 25.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 43 years. For every 100 females there were 82.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 85.6 males. The median income for a household in the borough was $30,313, and the median income for a family was $36,250. Males had a median income of $27,361 versus $21,667 for females. The
per capita income Per capita income (PCI) or average income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year. In many countries, per capita income is determined using regular population surveys, such ...
for the borough was $14,629. About 11.7% of families and 17.3% of the population were below the
poverty line The poverty threshold, poverty limit, poverty line, or breadline is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country. The poverty line is usually calculated by estimating the total cost of one year's worth of necessities for ...
, including 20.8% of those under age 18 and 16.5% of those age 65 or over.


Transportation

Stoystown is accessed and bypassed by U.S. 30 (
Lincoln Highway The Lincoln Highway is one of the first transcontinental highways in the United States and one of the first highways designed expressly for automobiles. Conceived in 1912 by Indiana entrepreneur Carl G. Fisher, and formally dedicated Octob ...
), and Route 281.


References

{{authority control Boroughs in Somerset County, Pennsylvania Populated places established in 1774