Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania

Hollidaysburg is a borough in the United States and the county seat of Blair County, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It stands on the Juniata River about eight kilometres south of Altoona and belongs to the Altoona metropolitan statistical area. The settlement was first laid out in 1796 and takes its name from Adam and William Holliday, Irish immigrants who founded it. From 1834 to 1854 it was an important port on the Pennsylvania Main Line Canal, the main transfer point between the Pennsylvania Canal and the Allegheny Portage Railroad, a gateway to western Pennsylvania, and that traffic drove its early industrial and commercial growth. Coal, iron ore, ganister and limestone occur nearby, and in the past the borough had foundries, machine shops, a silk mill, car works and railway classification yards. It has had a local historic district since 1989. The population was 5,641 at the 2020 census.