Company executives, who employed rough six hundred people from Windham County, Connecticut during this time, sent a number of their personnel to the modern-day counties of Luzerne, Lackawanna, Wyoming, Bradford, and Susquehanna to resettle there.

He was soon followed by the families of Levi Seward, Nathaniel Goss, Abraham Hess, and Reuben Culver (all of whom were influential settlers in Huntington Township).

Finally, following the Revolutionary War, under the acts of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania passed in 1799, Huntington Township was created along with seventeen other certified townships in the counties of Luzerne, Lackawanna, Wyoming, Bradford, and Susquehanna.

[3] The Bittenbender Covered Bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

Most of the township is made up of small farming communities (e.g., Cambra, Harveyville, Huntington Mills, and Waterton).

18.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8.3% had someone living alone who was sixty-five years of age or older.