A history of the Juniata Valley and its people; . ld lighted by electricity. The plant is controlled by the Prairie Elec-tric Light, Heat and Power Company. The borough has a national bank, several manufacturing enterprises,among which are a knitting mill and a shirt factory, several good stores,two hotels, etc. It is connected with Duncannon Ijy the SusquehannaRiver & Western railroad, and in 1910 had a population of 762. Blain is the outgrowth of a settlement that grew up about the millerected by James Blain in 1778. The mill was purchased by WilliamDouglass early in the nineteenth century a
A history of the Juniata Valley and its people; . ld lighted by electricity. The plant is controlled by the Prairie Elec-tric Light, Heat and Power Company. The borough has a national bank, several manufacturing enterprises,among which are a knitting mill and a shirt factory, several good stores,two hotels, etc. It is connected with Duncannon Ijy the SusquehannaRiver & Western railroad, and in 1910 had a population of 762. Blain is the outgrowth of a settlement that grew up about the millerected by James Blain in 1778. The mill was purchased by WilliamDouglass early in the nineteenth century and a postoffice was establishedthere under the name of Douglass Mill. In 1846 the town was regu-larly laid out and the name of the postofiice was changed to first store was opened by Anthony Black. Blain was incorporatedon November 3, 1877, and the first election was held in February, is located on the Newport & Shermans Valley railroad, twenty mileswest of New Bloomfield, and is said to occupy the prettiest site in the. SOLDIERS AXD SAILORS MOXUMEXT, NEW BLOOiMFIELD. HISTORY OF THE JUNIATA VALLEY 223 county. Before the building of the railroad it was connected with New-port by a stage hne. Blain has a bank, a number of good stores, somecozy residences, a graded school employing two teachers, churches ofdifferent denominations, a hotel, etc. The population in 1910 was 326. Duncannon, formerl} called Petersburg, is located in the easternpart of the county on the Susquehanna river and the main line of thePennsylvania railroad, and is the eastern terminus of the SusquehannaRiver & Western railwa}-. It was laid out by Christian Miller in 1792and three years later there were eighteen lot-owners. Robert Stewartwas one of the pioneer merchants and the first hotel was erectedabout 1794. John Chisholm built a grist-mill about 1810. The Dun-cannon Iron \\orks were established in 1827 by Stephen A. Duncan andJohn D. Mahon. In 1873 a rolling mill and nail factory were sta
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