Fair Hope is a small railroad station on the Baltimore & Ohio. The village was laid out about the close of the late war, and received its name from the…

Draketown is a small village in Lower Turkeyfoot township, containing two small stores, a blacksmith-shop and a small number of houses. Oliver Drake settled at this place, probably about the…

Deal is a small village in the southern part of the township. It was founded by Daniel Lepley who erected the first grist mill in Larimer Township at this place…

Davidsville, a small town in the eastern part of the township, was laid out by David Stutzman in the year 1831, with Thomas Gahagan as the surveyor. As Stutzman was…

Confluence takes its name from its location, which is at the junction of three streams— the Youghiogheny and Casselman rivers and Laurel Hill creek. It is a growing, prosperous town,…

Central City was founded by Anthony Weichtenheiser in 1847 near the center of Shade township. For many years the family of his son, John Weichtenheiser, and the family of Obediah…

Casselman borough was laid out in 1869 by L. L. Wolfersberger and David J. Phillippi, who owned the site of the town. The town was platted on a large scale,…

Buckstown is a quiet little hamlet of fifteen or twenty houses on the “The Pike.” It is usually associated with Shade township, but as a matter of fact the north…

Around 1784 – 1785, Ulrick Bruner employed Harmon Husband, a surveyor, to plot a town of 36 blocks which would contain 144 lots. Brunner planned on calling the village “Milford…

Boynton, in the eastern part of the township, was named for Jonathan Boynton, the founder of the town. It was built on the Douglas Boyd farm in 1880 after Dill…