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.
Share Your StoryThe site is organized into sections below — pick where you'd like to start.
Time-capsule plans, park improvements, local services and events from the community record.
The story of Mount Union, from 1849 to today.
The silica brick industry and the Thousand Steps.
Mount Union Area School District, and the marching band.
Every sport in the Trojan athletics program.
The town's restaurants, banks, churches, and services.
Explore dedicated place histories, beginning with the Thousand Steps.
Public meetings and community events.
Legends and mysteries of the Juniata Valley.
Stories from Mount Union's neighbors, past and present.
A visual record of Mount Union across the decades.
Send a story, a correction, or a photo.
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.

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.