Ferguson Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania (PA)

Ferguson Township

Centre County, Pennsylvania

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Ferguson Town Hall is located at 3147 Research Drive, State College PA 16801.
Phone: 814‑238‑4651.

Neighborhoods

  • Bailyville
  • Fairbrook
  • Pine Grove Mills
  • Pine Hall
  • Rock Springs
  • Shingleton
  • Aaron Village
  • Baileyville
  • Brackenridge
  • Cedar Hills
  • Chestnut Ridge
  • Chestnut Ridge Manor
  • College Heights North
  • Corl Acres
  • Fairbrook
  • Forest Edge
  • Foxpointe
  • Gatesburg
  • Glenview
  • Good Hope Farms
  • Greenbriar
  • Greenleaf Manor
  • Greenwich Hill
  • Haymarket
  • Hillside Farm Estates
  • Homestead Farms
  • Hunters Chase
  • Lesington Place
  • Lexington Place
  • Lyons Pointe
  • Marengo
  • Marywood
  • Overkook Heights
  • Overlook Heights
  • Park Hills
  • Piney Ridge
  • Ramblewood
  • Saybrook
  • Shamrock Estates
  • Somerset
  • Stonebridge
  • Sylvan View
  • Tanglewood
  • Teaberry Ridge
  • The Landings
  • Thistlewood
  • Thistlewood
  • Westfield
  • Westway Gardens

Beginnings [1]

Ferguson Township, was so named in honor or Thomas Ferguson who was a pioneer settler and built the first mill at what is now the village of Pine Grove Mills. The township was erected at January Sessions, 1801, out of Patton. Captain Gray Meek, a Revolutionary soldier, (ancestor of Hon. P. Gray Meek, editor of the Democratic Watchman) was also a pioneer settler in Ferguson township territory. In 1810 William Patton, son of Gen. John Patton, built Tussey Furnace at Pine Grove Mills. It ceased operation in 1815. Ferguson Township is remarkable now for its numerous beds of iron ore, developed and undeveloped, though there are no furnaces now within its borders. Large amounts of ore have been mined about Gatesburg, which was settled at an early period by the Gates, Rider and Rumberger families. Population in 1850, 1601; 1860, 1784; 1870, 2111; 1880, 1817; 1890, 1748.

  1. Post Office Directory of the Population of Centre County, PA – Published in Connection with a Census Enumeration of the Same, 1890, Bellefonte PA

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