To the east, the Catfish Road goes through a few miles of sparse farmland, interrupted by a few houses and a monastery, until it intersects Route 36, which leads north to Hollidaysburg and south to Roaring Spring.

Roaring Spring is a borough in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States.

Roaring Spring was established around the Big Spring in Morrison's Cove, a clean and dependable water source vital to the operation of a paper mill.

Prior to 1866, when the first paper mill was built, Roaring Spring had been a grist mill hamlet with a country store at the intersection of two rural roads that lead to the mill near the spring.

" The boundaries of the district essentially include those portions of Roaring Spring Borough which had been laid out for development by the early 1920s.

The village core retains only a few shops and professional offices, but still holds the Roaring Spring Blank Book Company and Roaring Spring Water Bottling Company, all of the historic church buildings, the public library ( formerly the Eldon Inn ), the borough building, the post office ( earlier moved from farther up East Main St .).

The Roaring Spring Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

The Roaring Spring Historic District is located within the Borough of Roaring Spring, a paper-mill town of about 2, 600 established in the late 1860s in southern Blair County, south-central Pennsylvania.

Roaring Spring is situated within the northwest quadrant of a long bowl-like valley known as Morrisons Cove, one of dozens of long but broad valleys in Pennsylvania's Ridge and Valley region.

The site of Roaring Spring is moderately hilly, drained by Cabbage and Halter Creeks.

The most prominent natural feature is the Big Spring, or Roaring Spring, a large natural limestone spring so-called because of the great noise its eight-million-gallon-a-day stream once made rushing out of the hillside near the village center.

Roaring Spring is overwhelmingly residential ( 91 percent ) in scale, but also includes churches, stops, professional offices, a municipal building, parks, a cemetery, a book factory complex, and a former railroad station.

Roaring Spring was established around the Big Spring, a clean and dependable water source vital to the operation of a paper mill.

Prior to 1866, when the first paper mill was built, Roaring Spring had been a grist-mill hamlet with a country store at the intersection of two rural roads that lead to the mill near the spring.

" The boundaries of the district essentially include those portions of Roaring Spring Borough which had been laid out for development by the early 1920s.