The township is home to Saint Vincent Archabbey, College and Seminary, as well as Arnold Palmer Regional Airport.

The Norfolk Southern Railway (once part of the Pennsylvania Railroad mainline) runs through the northern section of the township.

One of the oldest communities in the township was Youngstown, an important stop in the wagon and stagecoach era, ca.

[5] Some 15,000 people are believed to buried in the cemetery,[6] including Colonel John Proctor,[7] 31 other Revolutionary War veterans, U.S.

In 1847 the Sisters of Mercy, an Irish Catholic order, established St. Xavier's Academy for Girls in Unity.

[13] Mines which once operated in Unity Township included those named Carney, Humphries, Dorothy, Marguerite, Mutual, Puritan (in Baggaley), Whitney, Jamison No.

Extensive land remediation has taken place and few traces of the mines remain, but their names survive in township neighborhoods and streets.

The township contains the following communities: Baggaley, Beatty, Carney, Denison, Donohoe, Dorothy, Dry Ridge, George's Station, Greenwald, Hostetter, Humphreys, Lawson Heights, Lloydsville, Lycippus, Manito, Marguerite, Mutual, Old Crabtree, Pleasant Unity, and Whitney.