Homes for Rent in Barr, PA

On the northern edge of the Allegheny Mountains, Barr Township is a rural community with rolling hills, farmland and historic villages. The town, created in 1872, relied on lumbering and farming before finding coal deposits beneath the area. Several villages, including Nicktown and Marstellar, rapidly developed in the early 1900s. The largest was Colver, which had over 300 buildings and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. Today, nearly all coal operations in the area have closed, and the township has reverted to a pr ...