Mattawana

Mattawana lies on the eastern bank of the Juniata River, opposite McVeytown in a valley among the ridges of central Pennsylvania. John McVey settled across the river in 1787, and the town that took his name grew with the arrival of the Pennsylvania Canal in 1829. An Amish community also took root around Mattawana in the early nineteenth century, with a congregation established there by 1813.