Altoona is a city built by the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Cities usually grow to maturity and then sprout suburbs. With Altoona, it was the opposite. The suburban towns are older than…

Northern Cambria is not only the upper region of

Cambria County, it is also the new name of two

century-old villages, Barnesboro and Spangler, that have

merged to become a…

Blair County is a picturesque area of five hundred thirty square miles, carved from the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains in western Pennsylvania. Its lush forests, fertile valleys, and exquisite…

Windmills and water mills are truly the wonders of an

earlier era, the wooden technology of yesteryear.

To us, they may be graceful and charming relics. To the

colonists, however…