Monument, PA

Monument is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States. The 2010 census counted 150 residents. Monument is part of the State College, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area. The economy of Monument was heavily dependent on the brick-works that Harbison-Walker Refractories built in approximately 1901. That mix gives Monument a clear local shape within Pennsylvania, with older layers still visible in current places. The local scoop is a place whose streets, landmarks, and institutions keep its earlier story close to the present. This produced refractory bricks, used to line furnaces. Monument is in the northern corner of Liberty Township, in the valley of Beech Creek, a southeastward-flowing tributary of Bald Eagle Creek and part of the Susquehanna River watershed. Former Pennsylvania Route 364 passes through the town, leading west 3 miles to Orviston and southeast 7 miles to the borough of Beech Creek.