Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Rockhill, PA

Rockhill is a borough in Huntingdon County that has long been known as 'Rockhill Furnace,' although its official name has always been simply Rockhill.

Rockhill was incorporated on June 16, 1887.

Rockhill is the home of the East Broad Top Railroad, the narrow-gauge line built through the community in 1873, whose complete 19th-century shops and maintenance complex survives in the borough.

The town as it exists today was created by the Rockhill Iron and Coal Company and the railroad as a support community, centered on the company's dual-stack, coke-fired iron furnace.

Rockhill's iron furnace shut down for the last time in 1907, leaving the railroad as the community's primary employer.

The East Broad Top ended common-carrier service on April 14, 1956, but the Kovalchick family bought the line and preserved it intact rather than scrapping it, reopening part of it as a tourist railroad in 1960; the EBT Foundation acquired it in 2020 and returned trains to operation.

A Smithsonian transportation curator called the East Broad Top an 'incomparable national treasure,' and the National Park Service has designated it a National Historic Landmark.

Rockhill is also home to the Rockhill Trolley Museum, located beside the railroad yard, making the tiny borough a twin attraction for rail and trolley enthusiasts.

Rockhill had 379 residents at the 2020 census, up slightly from 371 in 2010; at the 2000 census it had 414 people in 173 households.