. History of Huntingdon and Blair counties, Pennsylvania . /#^/^/^ /H^ ff^i-t. CARBON TOWNSHIP. 233 Crawford, which took its name from the oldsettler who owned the .land there, is on the oppositeside of Shoups Run from Minersville, and fartherdown the stream. It consists of some fifteen houses,a portion of which are the original log buildings, andmany of these are passing rapidly to decay. I Barnet, so named after the former owner of |the land here, is a mining village, which com- jnienced at the time operations were begun in the old jBarnet mine, near Dudley. During the prosperous jtimes betw
. History of Huntingdon and Blair counties, Pennsylvania . /#^/^/^ /H^ ff^i-t. CARBON TOWNSHIP. 233 Crawford, which took its name from the oldsettler who owned the .land there, is on the oppositeside of Shoups Run from Minersville, and fartherdown the stream. It consists of some fifteen houses,a portion of which are the original log buildings, andmany of these are passing rapidly to decay. I Barnet, so named after the former owner of |the land here, is a mining village, which com- jnienced at the time operations were begun in the old jBarnet mine, near Dudley. During the prosperous jtimes between 1860 and 1870 this village grew till it jcame to contain about forty houses. Of these manywere vacant during the financial depression between1870 and 1880. In addition to the dwelling-housesnow here there is one store. CooKSTOX, a hamlet of fifteen miners houses, is amile above Dudley. It was named from Jesse Cook,an owner of coal land here. The population of tlie township in 1860 was 1511;in 1870 (including Broad Top City), 1883; and in1880, exclusive of the boroughs,
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