Editing Smicksburg, Pennsylvania (section)

==Amish Country along the Great Shamokin Path==
An [[Amish]] heritage corridor extends generally along the [[Great Shamokin Path]] through [[Clearfield County, Pennsylvania|Clearfield]], [[Jefferson County, West Virginia|Jefferson]], [[Indiana County, Pennsylvania|Indiana]] and [[Armstrong County, Pennsylvania|Armstrong]] counties, beginning at [[Big Spring (Pennsylvania)|Big Spring]] near Luthersburg, Clearfield County, and ending in [[Rural Valley, Pennsylvania|Rural Valley]] in Armstrong County.  The corridor winds through Amish settlements near the villages of [[Troutville, Pennsylvania|Troutville]] in Clearfield County; [[Big Run, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania|Big Run]], Cloe and [[Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania|Punxsutawney]] in Jefferson County; Smicksburg in Indiana County; and Rural Valley in Armstrong County. [[Amish buggies]] co-mingle with automobiles through the corridor. The Troutville Amish settlement in Brady Township, Clearfield County, is good-sized and has eight church districts. The settlement has farms, trades and small shops.  Troutville was named for Jacob Trautwien who settled the area in 1832.<ref>See, Ben A. and Orpha Hershberger, ''Troutville Directory: Migrations and History of Troutville, PA, 1971 to 2004'', Third print, Punxsutawney, PA. See http://amishamerica.com/pennsylvania-amish/ and "Amish Trail", ''Clearfield County PA Backwoods, Backroads, Backwaters 2012'', and http://clearfield.lunarcow.com/article/Amish+Trail/913122/91829/article.html</ref> The Smicksburg Amish settlement is centered on the borough of Smicksburg, [[Indiana County, Pennsylvania|Indiana County]], about 10 miles southwest of Punxsutawney.  The Smicksburg settlement is the third largest in Pennsylvania, and the eleventh largest in the U.S.  The Smicksburg settlement has 18 church districts and was founded in 1962.  Amish here drive Midwestern-style black buggies. Smicksburg was founded in 1827 by the Reverend John George Schmick, and most of the area's citizens are Amish. However, there are no Amish families living in Smicksburg borough. The Smicksburg settlement has speciality shops with Amish wares of handcrafts, quilts, furniture, foods and eating establishments.<ref>See http://smicksburg.net/ and http://amishamerica.com/groundhog-day-brain-dump-punxsutawney-amish-seeing-shadows-and-the-miracle-heater-in-court/?cid=14170</ref>
[[Rural Valley, Pennsylvania|Rural Valley]] is a borough in [[Armstrong County, Pennsylvania|Armstrong County]], [[Pennsylvania]], where the [[Cowanshannock Creek]] flows west leading to the [[Allegheny River]]. The population was 876 at the [[United States Census 2010|2010 census]].<ref name="Census 2010">{{cite web| url=http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/G001/1600000US4266720| archive-url=https://archive.today/20200212201911/http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/G001/1600000US4266720| url-status=dead| archive-date=February 12, 2020| title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Rural Valley borough, Pennsylvania| publisher=U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder| access-date=July 31, 2013}}</ref> The regional high school, [[West Shamokin High School]], bears the name of the historic Great Shamokin Path.