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Union County, Pennsylvania
Union County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Lewisburg
Year Organized: 1813
Square Miles: 317 |
Court House: 103 South Second Street
County Courthouse
Lewisburg, PA 17837-1903
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
Its name is an allusion to the Federal Union.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
Created on March 22, 1813, from part
of Northumberland County. Its name is an allusion to the Federal Union.
Lewisburg, the county seat after 1855, was laid out in 1785 and named for Ludwig
(Anglicized to "Lewis") Derr, its founder. It was incorporated as a borough on
March 21, 1822. New Berlin was the county seat from 1815 to 1855.
Settlers appeared in the Buffalo Valley in 1750, and the area was raided during
the French and Indian War. Indians held little girls from the LeRoy and
Leininger families captive for years. At Fort Stanwix in 1768 Pennsylvania
purchased the area from several Indian nations. New settlers arrived via the
Tulpehocken Road, although Indians raided again in 1777. The Evangelical
Association was founded in New Berlin, and its activities were centered there
for many years. In 1830, the Western Branch Division of the Pennsylvania Canal
linked Lewisburg to the outside world, and New Berlin ceased growing when the
county seat was transferred to Lewisburg. The Panic of 1873 eclipsed Lewisburg,
however. Between 1865 and 1910, Mifflinburg grew to be the horse buggy capital
of America. Dinkey railroads exploited lumber in remote parts of county. Iron
making from local ore was successful until 1865, but could not compete after
that. Today, farms cover almost one-third of the county, and it is competitive
in the production of field grains, poultry, and dairy products. Furniture and
cabinet manufacture, yarn and apparel, printing, road paving materials, and
cable assemblies are major businesses in the county. Governor Simon Snyder was
from Selinsgrove, which was part of Union County until 1855.
Neighboring Counties:
Cities and Towns:
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- Buffalo |
township |
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- East Buffalo |
township |
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- Gregg |
township |
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- Hartleton |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Hartley |
township |
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- Kelly |
township |
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- Lewis |
township |
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- Lewisburg
(County
Seat) |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Mifflinburg |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- New Berlin |
borough |
Incorporated Area |
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- Union |
township |
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- West Buffalo |
township |
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- White Deer |
township |
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- Winfield |
township |
County Resources:
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County Resource Guide
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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic
features of our country!"
But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.
Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally,
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