Rainsburg is a borough in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 139 at the 2020 census.

Rainsburg takes its pronounce from Conrad Rain, its first inhabitant who lived in a round log building and arrived some grow old before 1786, when he was united by Captain Jacob Adams and his wife Loretta Dustimer. The Adams arrived from Loudoun County, Virginia subsequent to Jacob’s assistance during the Revolutionary War subsequent to the 7th Virginia Regiment. Jacob built the first hewed-log house in Rainsburg. (That hewed-log home would be replaced by Samuel Williams following a frame house in 1854).

Also accompanied by the first settlers in Rainsburg was James Donahoe, who arrived sometime back 1800 and operated a tannery, store, and hotel. Over time, additional merchants arrived in town including Elias Gump who arrived in 1818 from Frederick County, Maryland, to play in a carpentry business and became justice of the peace. Elias’s relative John Gump, also came and opened a tannery – eventually purchasing Donahue’s tannery as well. By 1825, there were nearly a dozen houses in Rainsburg, which continued to go to to purchase borough status in 1856.

Notably, Rainsburg was house to the Allegheny Male and Female Seminary, founded by Samuel Williams, who arrived in Rainsburg in 1844 and raised funds to confirm the researcher by selling 138 shares of increase with a par value of $25. The school, often referred to as Rainsburg Seminary, was chartered in 1853 by the Pennsylvania State Legislature behind trustees Jacob Barndollar, George Slicer, J. W. Crawford, A. C. James, W. S. Cunningham, George Bortz, Elias Gump, C. Graham, and Williams. A Methodist-affiliated institution, the theoretical was very booming for a unexpected time. However, as most of its students came from the South and national tensions soared ahead of time of the Civil War, the intellectual encountered massive retention problems. Upon the outbreak of the Civil War, the students from Maryland and Virginia withdrew, and others enlisted in the military. The moot was subsequently closed, and the property was sold by the sheriff sometime after 1867. In 1875, the community theoretical moved into the seminary building, which well ahead housed the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Lodge #730. The seminary building, which is now a residence, features a pedimented gable subside with fanlight and cupola above as skillfully as a one-story full-facade porch higher than the seminary’s entrance. The window in the second story’s central recess features four-pane surrounds in contrast to the double-sash, six-over-six windows throughout the descend of the exterior. The interior features a spacious central unassailable oak staircase, which reaches to the small octagonal louvered belfry.