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Huntingdon

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Huntingdon

Borough and seat of Huntingdon County, in south-central Pennsylvania, 32 km/20 mi west of Altoona; population (1990) 6,800. This manufacturing region was founded in around 1755; its modern products include machinery, pipes, and radiators. It is the site of Juniata College (founded 1876), and Raystown Lake and the Lincoln Caverns are situated nearby.



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I will not dwell upon the matter overlong, but will tell as speedily as may be of how that stout fellow, Robin Hood, died as he had lived, not at court as Earl of Huntingdon, but with bow in hand, his heart in the greenwood, and he himself a right yeoman.
The castle of Huntingdon could be seen from the top of one of the tall trees in Sherwood; and on more than one bright day Rob's white signal from this tree told Marian that he awaited her there: for you must know that Rob did not visit her at the castle.
All Huntingdon exclaimed on the greatness of the match, and her uncle, the lawyer, himself, allowed her to be at least three thousand pounds short of any equitable claim to it.
 
 
 
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