'The Proprietaries of the Pennsylvania province, mindful of the rights of the natives and anxious to promote peace with them, would not grant land nor permit settlements to be made until the Indian title had been purchased.

At a treaty held at Albany on the 6th day of July 1754, the Six Nations, consisting of the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, Senecas and Tuscaroras, executed a deed to the Proprietaries for a large portion of the territory of the province including the whole of the valley of the Juniata [then Harrisburg to Pittsburgh].

Soon after this event the resident tribes sought a home elsewhere.’[3] According to various family histories—the white settlers first inhabited the Woodcock Valley Manor [4] during the American Revolutionary War and as early as 1772.

[5] For the first time the families of Northern Europeans [German, English, Irish & Welsh] lived in freedom and worshiped the religion of their choice.

The ore was processed into Juniata pig iron and sent away from the area to be manufactured into tools, machinery, steam engines, and the first railroads.

The line had one wire and used the earth as the second, a ground wire.’(1896) [10] 'In the early 1900s the Colonial Iron Company of Riddlesburg, purchased the Grove Brothers operations.

Holes were dug and poles set, all by hand.’[12] The Brumbaugh Homestead was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

A portion of Raystown Lake is located in Penn Township and a small portion of Pennsylvania State Game Lands Number 118 is located on the eastern slope of Tussey Mountain in the western part of the township.