Port Matilda Borough

Port Matilda Borough offices are located at 400 South High Street, Port Matilda PA 16870; phone: 814-692-0092.

Beginnings [1]

Incorporated from Worth Township, in 1926. At the foot of the Muncy Mountain, in picturesque Bald Eagle Valley. First settled in 1836 by Israel DeHaas. The town plot was surveyed in 1850 by 'Squire Clement Beck, who named the place in honor of his eldest daughter, Matilda. Population in 1940 was 646.

1. Post Office Directory of the Population of Centre County, PA – Published in Connection with a Census Enumeration of the Same, 1890, Bellefonte PA