page_title: Addison Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Addison Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of Addison Township taken from 1860 Edward L. Walker map of Somerset County, Pennsylvania, available at the Library of Congress website
context_page_description: Addison Township is a township in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,019 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The township is named for Alexander Addison, the first president judge overseeing Somerset County.
context_section_description: Major General Edward Braddock's Expedition of 1755 passed through the southwestern portion of the area that became Addison Township. The township was organized in 1800. Somerfield was laid out on the western edge of the township about 1816 by Philip D. Smyth, but the town was abandoned and covered over by the Youghiogheny River Lake in the 1940s. The Wable-Augustine Tavern was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
caption: Addison Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, 1860
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