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Everett is a borough in eastern Bedford County, located on the Raystown Branch of the Juniata River where U.S. Route 30, the Lincoln Highway, crosses PA Route 26.

Michael Barndollar purchased the land in 1787 and laid out a town in 1795 that he called Waynesburg, but the name never caught on with settlers.

The settlement instead took the name Bloody Run, after the creek where, tradition holds, a bloody frontier clash between settlers and Native Americans took place.

Everett was incorporated as the borough of Bloody Run in November 1860, then renamed Everett in February 1873 in honor of Massachusetts politician and orator Edward Everett.

The Everett Historic District, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003, contains 362 buildings dating from about 1830 to 1952, about 80 percent of them historic contributing structures.

The arrival of the Huntingdon and Broad Top Railroad in 1863 sparked industrial growth, and the Tecumseh Tannery, built in 1866, grew into one of Bedford County's largest early industries.

Everett's population was 1,765 at the 2020 census; back in 2000, its 1,905 residents lived in 876 households.

Everett is the birthplace of bestselling suspense novelist Dean Koontz, born there on July 9, 1945, whose books have sold more than 450 million copies worldwide.

The borough is hemmed in by Tussey Mountain to the west and Warriors Ridge to the east, which shaped its narrow three-pronged pattern of growth along the river.