On Location: 249 - Hawstone, Pa.

Hawstone and the Hawstone Silica Plant......located on the south side of the Juniata River in the Lewistown Narrows. The village of Hawstown is in both Mifflin and Juniata Counties. Before the 1910's there was nothing on that side of the river. The Village of Haws is about 5 miles east of Lewistown and even had it's own post office, the post office was named Haws. In the beginning Hawstone was only accessible by train being located along the PRR mainline. The Hawstone Plant began producing bricks in 1917. The plant had 12 kilns, each kiln would hold 125,000 bricks. Daily production was 55,000 bricks, Most of the materials for the bricks came from the mountain surrounding the plant. In 1928 a road was built from Lewistown to Mifflin in Juniata County (Hawstone Road/Part 333).

William H. Haws, General Manager, after twelve years of experimenting invented a practical machine for making silica brick and silica shapes which will make these brick uniform in dimension and uniform in density. Mr. Haws has covered this invention with three United States Patents. Mr. Henry Y. Haws and Mr. David Barry have each purchased a one-fourth interest in these patents. (Mifflin County Pennsylvania Memories)

Haws Refractories received or originated 1,687 cars during 1947. (Rails Northeast)

Station (MP 55.9)

Haws' Refractories Co. No. 2 (MP 56.2)

	There were track pans at Hawstone. This is the reservoir which is somewhat extant today.