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Alexandria hosts the annual "Hartslog Heritage Day" celebration each year on the second Saturday of October. The day-long event recognizes the early days of the small borough, when, in 1744, a licensed Indian trader named John Hart used a large hollowed-out log to feed and salt his horses while he conducted his trading.
The year 1744 is the first record of John Harts's “logg”, near where Alexandria, Pennsylvania is located now. During the land purchase of 1755 James Sterrat of Carlisle purchased 400 acres including the sleeping place called John Hart's log on the Juniata River, which is now Alexandria and named for Indian trader John Hart.
The result was a log worship house, the Old Hartslog Church, erected upon the hill one mile north of the present site of the town of Alexandria, Pennsylvania. The surrounding church yard was used for a burial ground. The Rev. John Johnston was installed as pastor in November, 1787, and continued in that role until 1823.
The Juniata Valley School District, commonly abbreviated JVSD, is a rural public school district based in the borough of Alexandria, Pennsylvania. The school district includes all of Alexandria borough, Petersburg borough, Barree Township, Logan Township, West Township, Morris Township and Spruce Creek township. The district encompasses ...
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He hired Ernest K. Weller to photograph the road. Lacock's commissioned photographs survive in the form of postcards, which he published in 1910, and his written account was published in the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography in 1914. The road Lacock discovered was a road made by over 30 years of colonial settlers following Braddock ...
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This is a list of towns and boroughs in Pennsylvania. There are currently 956 municipalities classified as boroughs and one classified as a town in Pennsylvania . Unlike other forms of municipalities in Pennsylvania, boroughs and towns are not classified according to population.