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Huntingdon is a borough and the county seat of Huntingdon County, lying along the Juniata River about 32 miles east of Altoona.

Huntingdon was laid out in 1767 by the Rev. Dr. William Smith, provost of the College of Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania), who named it in honor of Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon.

Huntingdon was built on the site of a famous Native American council ground near where Standing Stone Creek flows into the Juniata River.

Huntingdon became the county seat when Huntingdon County was created in 1787, and the borough was incorporated in 1796.

The 2020 census counted 6,827 people in Huntingdon, living in about 2,564 households, of which only about 58 percent are owner-occupied - a classic college-town housing profile.

Huntingdon is home to Juniata College, a liberal arts college founded in 1876 by members of the Church of the Brethren.

Huntingdon is the largest population center near Raystown Lake, a winding 28-mile-long flood-control reservoir managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Throughout the 19th century, the Huntingdon area was dotted with iron furnaces and forges that consumed local limestone, iron ore and wood for charcoal.

The Huntingdon Borough Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 and preserves buildings dating from the late eighteenth century into the twentieth century.

Huntingdon lies on the former Pennsylvania Railroad main line, today Norfolk Southern's freight route, and serves as the hub of the Huntingdon micropolitan area.