- Port Royal, Pennsylvania
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official_name = Port Royal, Pennsylvania
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subdivision_name =United States
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subdivision_name1 =Pennsylvania
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subdivision_name2 = Juniata
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established_title = Settled
established_date = 1812
established_title2 = Incorporated
established_date2 = 1843
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population_total = 977
population_density_km2 = 571.5
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timezone = Eastern (EST)
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footnotes =Port Royal is a borough in Juniata County,
Pennsylvania ,United States . The population was 977 at the 2000 census.Geography
Port Royal is located at coor dms|40|31|60|N|77|23|15|W|city (40.533257, -77.387619)GR|1.
According to the
United States Census Bureau , the borough has a total area of 0.7square mile s (1.8km² ), of which, 0.7 square miles (1.7 km²) of it is land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km²) of it (4.35%) is water.Demographics
As of the
census GR|2 of 2000, there were 977 people, 398 households, and 278 families residing in the borough. Thepopulation density was 1,471.9 people per square mile (571.5/km²). There were 434 housing units at an average density of 653.9/sq mi (253.9/km²). The racial makeup of the borough was 95.70% White, 1.33% African American, 0.61% Native American, 0.41% Asian, 1.54% from other races, and 0.41% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.89% of the population.There were 398 households out of which 32.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.0% were married couples living together, 10.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.9% were non-families. 26.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 12.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.45 and the average family size was 2.92.
In the borough the population was spread out with 26.0% under the age of 18, 7.3% from 18 to 24, 30.4% from 25 to 44, 20.9% from 45 to 64, and 15.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females there were 93.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 89.8 males.
The median income for a household in the borough was $34,514, and the median income for a family was $39,479. Males had a median income of $28,750 versus $22,841 for females. The
per capita income for the borough was $16,212. About 8.2% of families and 10.0% of the population were below thepoverty line , including 11.1% of those under age 18 and 6.7% of those age 65 or over.History
Port Royal was originally named Perrysville, after Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry. At the time, the Port Royal post office was located in Saint Tammany town, just across the Tuscarora Creek. However, the Pennsylvania Railroad brought increased traffic through the area and prompted a move of the Port Royal post office into Perrysville in 1847. In 1874, the borough took on the name itself and Saint Tammany became known as Old Port.
Port Royal (and Perrysville before it) once was a stop on the old main line of the
Pennsylvania Railroad . Port Royal was, in fact, one of the first towns to be linked to the Pennsylvania Railroad system, as it lay along the Lewistown-to-Harrisburg stretch of the railroad--the first leg constructed after the new railroad was chartered. The old Pennsylvania Railroad station no longer exists. Port Royal was also the northern terminus of the Tuscarora Valley Railroad, a narrow-gauge railroad serving southern Juniata and northern Franklin counties. The railroad was decommissioned in the 1930s.From the PRR station during the
Gettysburg Campaign of the Civil War, Union scout Stephen W. Pomeroy telegraphed the vital news to GovernorAndrew Curtin thatRobert E. Lee was concentrating theArmy of Northern Virginia at Gettysburg. This was that state officials knew of this vital intelligence, which Pomeroy had carried for nearly sixty miles from near Lee's headquarters in Chambersburg. He had sewn the message into his belt strap of his pants.ee also
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