> >RE: Phillip Hares' e-mail: > >One of the physical features of the area is a 700 ft high area known as >Callow Hill and Callow Rocks which lie on the edges of several of these >parishes. > >Can this be simply coincidence? from Steve Kemp, in Huntingdon. It seems to me that it COULD be a coincidence as relates to Jacob Hare. It seems more than likely to me, after giving this a little thought, that someone who came to Mapleton, who laid out or named some of the streets in the borough, WAS familiar with Callow Hill in England. Across the river from Mapleton are sand quarries that cut deeply into the leading edges of a steep rocky ridge. There are other sharp edges of ridges coming right down into the town. The Juniata River cuts through these formations, one of which may have looked like Callow Hill to someone who had seen it or lived near it... Jacob Hare was in the area before the Revolutionary War, but as a place on the map, Mapleton is much more recent; it only grew up after the railroad came through the site in the 1850s. It was incorporated in 1866. Also... for what it's worth, Jacob is found very commonly in the colonial period as a first name of Pa. German people, less commonly as an English first name.