Box 115, Mercersburg, PA 17236

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  • About Us
  • Articles
    • Persons of Interest
    • Mercersburg Area
    • Skills and Early Technology
    • Montgomery Township/Welsh Run
    • Peters Township/Lemasters Area
    • Warren Township / The Little Cove
    • Civil War
    • Personal Experiences
    • Native American Information
    • Glimpses of Events in the Mercersburg Area During The Civil War - Ten Articles
    • Schools
    • WW II
    • African American Heritage
  • Area Facts
  • Membership
  • Contact Us
  • Nancy Horton Heefner Memorial Art Show
  • Persons of Interest
    • "Doc" Clutz of Mercersburg
    • Fairview Cemetery Walking Tour
    • Harriet Lane Johnston (1830-1903)
    • Heefner Art Exhibition 2022
    • Hugh McConnell & Leonard Leidy
    • John L. Finafrock (1871-1941)
    • John L. Finafrock - 1871-1941 Educator for Forty-six Years in Franklin County, Historian, and Gentleman in the True Sense of the Word
    • Life of Henry Harbaugh
    • Mercersburg’s Findlay Family Connections
    • Recollections in 1905 of James Buchanan
    • Sadie Parker (1854-1924)
    • Seth Dickey and The Village of Dickey
    • The Irwin Sisters of Irwinton
    • The World of Harriet Lane in her first Nine Years
    • William McKinstry
  • Mercersburg Area
    • Mercersburg in WW I: Over There
    • A Backward Glimpse of Mercersburg During the Great Depression in 1932
    • A Brief History of Mercersburg Clothing Factories
    • A Mercersburg Memoir, 1938-55 - By David Clutz
    • An Overview of the History of Lemasters, PA
    • Church Hill Cemetery Tour
    • "Doc" Clutz of Mercersburg
    • Early Bands in Our Community (1836-1943)
    • Fairview Cemetery Walking Tour
    • Female Seminary & Female Institute
    • Firefighting in the Mercersburg Area from Its Beginnings Through the Formation of the Eclipse Fire Company and the Formation of the Mercersburg, Montgomery, Peters, and Warren Volunteer Fire Company Inc.
    • Four Historical Markers
    • Harriet Lane Johnston (1830-1903)
    • History of Fairview Cemetery
    • Hugh McConnell & Leonard Leidy
    • John L. Finafrock (1871-1941)
    • John L. Finafrock - 1871-1941 Educator for Forty-six Years in Franklin County, Historian, and Gentleman in the True Sense of the Word
    • Life of Henry Harbaugh
    • Little Africa near Mercersburg Pennsylvania
    • Mercersburg - 150 Years Ago
    • Mercersburg - Beginnings
    • Mercersburg Branch Emergency Aid During World War I
    • Mercersburg High School (1922-1954)
    • Mercersburg High School - The Jester
    • Mercersburg Home Front During WWII
    • Mercersburg - Its Beginnings
    • Mercersburg’s Findlay Family Connections
    • Mercersburg's Fountain
    • Mercersburg Theology
    • Milestones and Memories - 1927 - 1930
    • Music in Mercersburg
    • Recollections in 1905 of James Buchanan
    • Remembering Local Service Men and Women at Christmas
    • Schools in Earlier Times - Gallery
    • Smallpox in Mercersburg Area in 1902
    • Smallpox Inoculation - A Forgotten Controversy
    • The Building of Mercersburg High School
    • The Free Public Library in Mercersburg
    • The Irwin Sisters of Irwinton
    • The Presbyterian Church of the Upper West Conococheague
    • The Town Clock of Mercersburg
    • The World of Harriet Lane in her first Nine Years
    • William McKinstry
    • Women's Suffrage Activities in Mercersburg
  • Skills and Early Technology
    • A Brief History of Mercersburg Clothing Factories
    • Butchering, A Skill of Families in the Past
    • Early Bands in Our Community (1836-1943)
    • Spring Houses, Important Buildings in the Past
    • Ye Ole Tree Pump
  • Montgomery Township/Welsh Run
    • Mercersburg in WW I: Over There
    • History of the Robert Kennedy Memorial Presbyterian Church at Welsh Run
    • Studebaker Massacre Welsh Run, Pa March 3, 1756
    • The Legend of the Headless Horseman of Locust Level
  • Peters Township/Lemasters Area
    • Mercersburg in WW I: Over There
    • An Overview of the History of Lemasters, PA
    • Businesses of Lemasters Remembered
    • History of Lemasters High School
    • Schools in Earlier Times - Gallery
    • The Legacy of Lemasters High School
  • Warren Township / The Little Cove
    • The Dynamite Truck Explosion Near Cove Gap
    • Mercersburg in WW I: Over There
    • A Day at Center School
    • Schools in Earlier Times - Gallery
  • Civil War
    • Mercersburg's Volunteer Civil War Heroes 1862 -1863
    • William Trescot Narrative - The Last Four Months of Buchanan's Administration, 1860-1861
  • Personal Experiences
    • World War II Memories - Paul Barnes
    • A Mercersburg Memoir, 1938-55 - By David Clutz
    • An Overview of the History of Lemasters, PA
    • My Experience with Polio - Oneda Paylor StahI
    • Recollections in 1905 of James Buchanan
    • REMEMBERING : 1944-1945 - The World war II Memoirs of David S. Smith - A Company - 116th Infantry Battalion 29th Division
    • The World War II Pow Memoirs of John (Jack) F. Hawley
    • William Trescot Narrative - The Last Four Months of Buchanan's Administration, 1860-1861
  • Native American Information
    • Snaggy Ridge Indian Rhyolite Quarries
  • Glimpses of Events in the Mercersburg Area During The Civil War - Ten Articles
    • Civil War in Mercersburg Area - 10 Articles
  • Schools
    • Long Forgotten...Mercersburg Female Seminary
    • Schools in Earlier Times - Gallery
  • WW II
    • World War II Memories - Paul Barnes
    • A Local Boy's World War II Story
    • "Doc" Clutz of Mercersburg
    • Mercersburg Home Front During WWII
    • REMEMBERING : 1944-1945 - The World war II Memoirs of David S. Smith - A Company - 116th Infantry Battalion 29th Division
    • Remembering Local Service Men and Women at Christmas
    • The Mercersburg Home Front During World War II with Emphasis upon the Women’s Home Defense Unit
    • The World War II Pow Memoirs of John (Jack) F. Hawley
  • African American Heritage
    • Little Africa near Mercersburg Pennsylvania
    • Little Africa of Northwestern Pennsylvania
    • Zion Union Cemetery and the 54th Massachusetts

Mercersburg Historical Society - Box 115, Mercersburg, PA 17236