Huntingdon County · Pennsylvania

Every Brick Holds a Story

A gathering place for the history, the people, and the pride of Mount Union — from the fire brick that built the world's furnaces to the front-porch stories that built our town.

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“Union of Mountains,” 1937 — Paul Rohland, U.S. Treasury Department Section of Fine Arts — on permanent display in the Mount Union Post Office
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Featured History · March 1936

The Flood That Cut Mount Union Off

Surviving photographs and historical records document the disaster that inundated neighborhoods and businesses, interrupted roads, railroads, utilities and communication, and destroyed the Harbison-Walker dinky bridge across the Juniata.

Floodwater surrounding buildings in Mount Union on March 17, 1936
Mount Union during the St. Patrick’s Day Flood, March 1936.
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One Disaster, Many Mount Union Stories

Follow the flood through the borough’s civic response, homes and businesses, the Colony Club, the quarry railroad, the Thousand Steps and the flood-control projects that followed.

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