Place:Johnetta, Gilpin, Armstrong, Pennsylvania, United States

Johnetta was a former borough, located in what is now Gilpin Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. The area was previously named "White Rock" after a station on the Allegheny Valley Railroad. According to Smith's "History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania":

White Rock is three miles and four-tenths above Aladdin, on the Martha Maris tract (Smith, 165).

The borough of Johnetta was founded near White Rock in 1892 as a company town of the Pittsburg-Buffalo Company, and was named for a daughter of the company's president John H. Jones. By the time of the 1910 US Census, Johnetta was large enough to be given its own enumeration district (District 19) separate from the rest of Gilpin Township.

The town was, however, entirely dependent upon the Pittsburg-Buffalo Company (a fact not lost upon the writers of the 1914 volume "Armstrong County, PA: Her People, Past and Present" by J.H. Beers & Co.). Its decline was nearly as rapid as its rise, and by 1930 (less than 40 years after its founding) the town was essentially deserted. On the day the borough's charter was revoked by Armstrong County Judge J. Frank Graff (June 5, 1930), local newspapers reported the town had only six remaining residents.

References

Smith, Robert Walter. History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. Chicago: Waterman, Watkins, & Co, 1883.