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Bellwood is a borough in Blair County, Pennsylvania, in the Tuckahoe Valley of the Logan Valley area, just north of Altoona, and it is entirely surrounded by Antis Township.

Bellwood was originally called Bell's Mills, after Edward 'Neddy' Bell, who settled there around 1806 and built a grist mill that became the focal point of the settlement.

The Bell family's original log house is the oldest structure in town and still stands on Main Street.

In 1832 the Bell family built Elizabeth Furnace, an iron furnace named for Edward Bell's daughter.

Bellwood's Martin Bell founded the Sabbath Rest Foundry, named for his invention of a way to stoke furnace fires so they could burn through Sunday without anyone tending them — which is how the surrounding area came to be known as Sabbath Rest.

Bellwood was incorporated as a borough in the late 1880s, and trolley service on the Logan Valley Electric Railway reached the town in 1894.

The 2020 census counted 1,827 people in Bellwood, and the 2000 census counted 776 households in the borough.

Bellwood grew as a railroad town after the Pennsylvania Railroad arrived, and the narrow-gauge Bell's Gap Railroad once hauled freight down 1,100 feet of elevation over nine miles from the Allegheny Mountains to the borough.

The borough is served by the Bellwood-Antis School District, and the Bellwood-Antis Blue Devils football team is a major source of local pride, especially in its rivalry games against neighboring Tyrone.

Just outside the borough in Antis Township, DelGrosso's Amusement Park has operated since 1907, and the Bell's Gap Rail Trail follows the old railroad grade west of town.