The largest community in Hamlin Township is the borough of Mt. Jewett. The historic Kinzua Viaduct was used to carry trains across the Kinzua valley overlooking the town of Kushequa. It was built in 1882 of iron, ant at the time was the highest bridge in the world. It was converted to a steel sturcture in 1900. When the area became a state park an old steam engine would transport tourists across the valley. Unfortunatly, a tornado hit the structure in 2003 and destroyed a large portion of it. The old bridge has been re-purposed as the Kinzua Skywalk where walk out 624 feet over the valley and view the valley floor 300 feet below through a glass floor.

The area has a large Swedish ancestry and a Swedish festival every August. A notable example of Swedish architecture, the Nebo Chapel built in 1887, is an octagonal shaped Lutheran church patterned after Ersta Kyrka at Danviken, near Stockholm, Sweden. According to the plaque near the chapel, the name “Nebo” comes from the mountain where the Old Testament Patriarch Moses stood when he viewed the Promised Land. The chapel is still used for special occasions like weddings and funerals, the annual Swedish festival, and Ascension Day Vesper Services. The founding settlers are buried in a the Nebo Cemetery on the chapel grounds