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Shingletown
History of Centre and Clinton Counties, John B Linn, 1883, p319-320
"Shingletown is a quiet and peaceful little village of about twenty or twenty-five houses, near the mountain, which towers heavenward, looking over the valley and up and down as far as the eye can reach over the level fields. This town had many years ago a grist-mill and still-house, and at the time all was merriment, and the town was in a flourishing condition.
But in the year 1844 a fire consumed both, which was a death-stroke to the place. But it still boasts of a saw-mill and a beautiful stream, which abounds in the speckled beauties. The Shingletowners take a great pride in their town, which other places of greater importance would do well to imitate, and that is, it is a strictly temperate town, at least they tell us so. It has a hotel called the Bush House, although it does not entertain travelers. In this house Messrs. Philips & Glassgow, from the Loop, have opened an auction-store. It has also a good school-house, which accommodates the children of the town and country. Religious services are also held in the same building, the town not being blessed with a regular church edifice. The town is well represented in the different trades. A Mr. Shingle erected the first building in the place, in 1820, which still remains.
The oldest resident was Mr. Fox, who, at the age of ninety-two, walked frequently to Bellefonte, and returned on the same day, a distance of twenty-eight miles. It was also the residence of Hon. John Hasson, one of the first men to urge the project of a railroad through Penn's valley."
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