Chief Logan

Lewistown, PA · est. 1916

Raised in 1755–56 on the high bank of the Juniata, Fort Granville guarded a vulnerable stretch of the Pennsylvania frontier during the French and Indian War. It was attacked twice, and in July 1756 a large French and Indian force overwhelmed it, killing its commander, Lieut. Edward Armstrong, and either killing or carrying off the entire garrison. The loss was a shock that helped provoke Col. John Armstrong's retaliatory raid on the Delaware town of Kittanning weeks later.

Mifflintown, PA · est. 1982

Juniata County, split from Mifflin County in 1831, takes its name from the scenic river that threads through it. For generations the valley served as a natural highway: first the footpaths of Native travelers, then a turnpike, a canal, and finally the railroad, each layering a new mode of movement onto the same route through the mountains. Mifflintown, the county seat, was incorporated in 1833 as this corridor of trade and travel matured.

Beale Township, PA

Long before European settlers reached the Juniata Valley, Indigenous peoples raised earthen mounds over their dead, shaping the land itself into a place of memory. The remnants marked here are the worn traces of one such burial mound, a form of monument built across the Eastern Woodlands over many centuries. Farming, erosion, and time have reduced most of these sites to low rises, making the survivors precious records of an ancient landscape.

Walker Township, PA · est. 1947

Built around 1754 in the Tuscarora Valley, Fort Bigham was a stockaded blockhouse raised to shelter the traders and settlers pushing into Pennsylvania's frontier. In 1756, during the French and Indian War, it was destroyed in a raid by Native warriors—one of many such attacks that terrorized the backcountry and drove families to abandon their farms. Its brief existence captures the vulnerability of frontier life during that conflict.