williamsburg, PA anybody know anything about this area? (Altoona, Elizabethtown: school district, living)

[freckles888]

looking to find out everything about this area. i'm not finding much on the internet. we will possibly be moving to williamsburg region. anything you can tell me would be great because i just want to get a general view of what the place is like. also, is it considered western PA? i don't even know how to go about searching for info.

thank you so much!

[Pureblood]

I live in Williamsburg. Williamsburg is a great community. Everyone is kind and everyone knows everyone. To start i suggest reading this wikipedia article. Williamsburg, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I and others have kept it somewhat up to date. Williamsburg Community school disrict is fairly small. The class average is about 50 kids or less. There are 45 student in my graduating class. Just outside of town, going up piney creek or clover creek are a lot of farms. It is a very rural and agricultural area. Just up the road about 20 min away is altoona. And on the other side of Huntington mountain there is a walmart. If you have any questions feel free to ask. BTW it is considered Central PA.

EDIT:
Found some stuff from a previous post.
Williamsburg sounds like just what some people are looking for. The path that you are talking about is called Rails to Trails. It is about 16 miles long, next to the frankstown branch of the Juniata River. Almost entirely wooded and has a about mile of paved trail. The rest is gravel people ride bikes or just walk on it. The town it self is about 1 square mile. It has a dollar general store, martins general store and a grocery store. Walmart in Huntington is only 15 minutes away. Right outside of town is farms in almost every direction. The only bad thing about Williamsburg is that is in a big hole and surrounded by mountains.

[ki0eh]

Kudos to you for adding references to the Wikipedia page. So many, many small towns only have the census information up there. Anyone can edit Wikipedia pages. Hopefully you can be an inspiration to others. Every town has a story - get on there and tell it!

[badguykc]

Williamsburg is a nice, quiet community outside of Altoona. The school district is one of the state's smallest (as another poster pointed out), and the area surrounding it is GORGEOUS.

If you're into small-town living with a great small-town America feel (and I mean that in a positive way)...you'll love it there.

[chiak]

Originally Posted by Pureblood

The only bad thing about Williamsburg is that is in a big hole and surrounded by mountains.

Williamsburg sounds really great! The wikipidea article is very informative!

I am wondering if Williamsburg experiences specific weather different than neighboring towns due to its situation in the mountain? Is there any problem with flooding?

[Pureblood]

The weather is no different than other surrounding towns. The mountains are not like the Rockies, compared to the Rockies the mountains here look like hills. The winters here are typical of PA. Cold and snowy. And not a lot of sunshine. But the spring summer and fall weather more than make for the dark and dreary winters. Spring it gets warmer, nice weather. Summer is nice but sometimes it gets really humid. Fall best season weather wise.
Chiak yeah sometimes there is a problem with flooding, back in 2004 there was two floods with in two weeks in September. The rain from remnants of hurricanes caused those floods. I think the river flooded once in then also. The only streets that have flooding are West 1st Street, And east first street and canal street. Usually the waters stay on the river side and rarely go beyond those streets. Once you get past them street the town gradually goes up hill. Like in the Williamsburg Alma Malter it says Hail to the hill side beauty. That is all I remember just wanted to point it out. As Badguy KC mentioned the scenry is great.

Here is map to look at the street i mentioned.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Willia...n&ie=UTF8&z=15

[ki0eh]

The Ivan flood in 2004 was the flood of record for the Williamsburg gage on the Frankstown Branch Juniata River. I used that to help get Federal aid money for Claysburg and Martinsburg (they applied for that program, Williamsburg didn't). Here are flood and restored photos for the Lower Trail: Rails-to-Trails- The Lower Trail- Photo Scrapbook

[Pureblood]

great pictures of the trails... my pap is even in one of them...

[Pureblood]

The original poster now wants to know about Lewisburg PA. He or she stated that she didn't not mean Williamsburg.

[ki0eh]

Now I've heard of confusing Lewisburg with Lewistown, Elizabethville with Elizabethtown, but that's a new one on me. Maybe we should start on Williamsburg vs. Williamstown next.