Editing Ursina, Pennsylvania (section)

==History==
Ursina takes its name from Judge William J. Baer, owner of the land when the town was laid out in 1868 by surveyors H.L. Baer and R.J. Botzer; "bear" in Latin is Ursus.<ref name="WatermanWatkins">{{cite book|title=History of Bedford, Somerset and Fulton Counties, Pennsylvania|url=https://archive.org/details/pa-bedford-somerset-fulton-1884-waterman/page/n760/|year=1884|publisher=Waterman, Watkins & Co.|location=Chicago|pages=561–562}}</ref> Judge Baer had a blacksmith shop and a sawmill built, Ephraim Kreger built the first house, and Isaac A. Jenkins built the first store, all in that same year of 1868.<ref name="WatermanWatkins"/> A school was built in 1870, with John Griffith serving as the first teacher.<ref name="WatermanWatkins"/> Ursina was organized as a borough in 1872.<ref name="WatermanWatkins"/>

The Ursina Branch Railroad was built by the Pittsburgh and Baltimore Coal, Coke, and Iron Company in 1871–1872 in order to more easily access the coal deposits in the area.<ref name="WatermanWatkins2">{{cite book|title=History of Bedford, Somerset and Fulton Counties, Pennsylvania|url=https://archive.org/details/pa-bedford-somerset-fulton-1884-waterman/page/n180/|year=1884|publisher=Waterman, Watkins & Co.|location=Chicago|page=180}}</ref> This four mile line only operated for about three years before the ongoing effects of the [[Panic of 1873]] caused it to cease.<ref name="WatermanWatkins2"/>