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This year, 2016, marks the Centennial of the establishment of the National Park Service (NPS). On August 25, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed into law the National Park Service Organic Act, creating a federal agency to administer America’s most important places. Throughout the year, the NPS has been celebrating its 100th Birthday at its 413 parks located all over the

The Huntingdon County Historical Society was formed in 1936 to plan the observance of the county’s 150th anniversary. At the successful conclusion of that effort, those involved elected to charter the Society as an ongoing organization. In 1952 the Society entered a new phase in its history when it inherited, jointly with the Huntingdon County Library, the real property of