Rainsburg, PA

Rainsburg is a borough in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, United States. The 2020 census counted 141 residents. Notably, Rainsburg was home to the Allegheny Male and Female Seminary, founded by Samuel Williams, who arrived in Rainsburg in 1844 and raised funds to establish the school by selling 138 shares of stock with a par value of $25. Upon the outbreak of the Civil War, the students from Maryland and Virginia withdrew, and others enlisted in the military. The short version is that Rainsburg carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Rainsburg: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Rainsburg lies at the southern end of a valley called Friends Cove, between Tussey Mountain to the east and Evitts Mountain to the west. Rainsburg is home to Allegheny Male. Rainsburg is home to several churches, stores, hotel, carriage manufactory, tannery, grist mill.