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
  • Persons of Interest
    • A Look at the Life of Henry Harbaugh
    • "Doc" Clutz of Mercersburg
    • Fairview Cemetery Walking Tour
    • Harriet Lane Johnston (1830 - 1903), Niece of President James Buchanan, Hostess in the White House 1857 - 1861
    • Heefner Art Exhibition 2022
    • Hugh McConnell and Leonard Leidy, Nineteenth-Century Local Artisans
    • John L. Finafrock - 1871-1941 Educator for Forty-six Years in Franklin County, Historian, and Gentleman in the True Sense of the Word
    • 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
  • Mercersburg Area
    • Mercersburg in WW I: Over There
    • A Backward Glimpse at Mercersburg in 1932 During the Great Depression
    • A Brief History of Mercersburg Clothing Factories
    • Accomplishments of the Mercersburg Branch of the Emergency Aid During World War I
    • A Mercersburg Memoir, 1938-55 - By David Clutz
    • An Overview of the History of Lemasters, PA
    • Church Hill Cemetery Tour
    • "Doc" Clutz of Mercersburg
    • Fairview Cemetery Walking Tour
    • 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
    • History of Fairview Cemetery
    • James Black's Settlement
    • John L. Finafrock - 1871-1941 Educator for Forty-six Years in Franklin County, Historian, and Gentleman in the True Sense of the Word
    • Little Africa near Mercersburg Pennsylvania
    • Mercersburg - 150 Years Ago
    • Mercersburg - Beginnings
    • Mercersburg High School 1921-1954
    • Mercersburg’s Findlay Family Connections
    • Mercersburg’s Fountain
    • Mercersburg Theology
    • Milestones and Memories - 1927 - 1930
    • Music in Mercersburg
    • Remembering Local Service Men and Women at Christmas
    • Schools in Earlier Times - Gallery
    • Smallpox Inoculation - A Forgotten Controversy
    • Smallpox in the Mercersburg Area in 1902
    • Suffragists in Mercersburg
    • The First Free Public Library in Mercersburg
    • The Presbyterian Church of the Upper West Conococheague
    • The Town Clock of Mercersburg
  • Skills and Early Technology
    • A Brief History of Mercersburg Clothing Factories
    • Butchering, A Skill of Families in the Past
    • 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
    • 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
    • 01 - The Abolition Riot in 1837 - The Prologue
    • 02 - The Underground Railroad
    • 03 - Men from the Mercersburg Area Serving in the Union Armies
    • 04 - The Home Front
    • 05 - October 10, 1862 - J.E.B. Stuart’s Raid
    • 06 - June 1863 - Prelude to Gettysburg
    • 07 - Friday, July 3, 1863
    • 08 - Sunday, July 5, 1863
    • 09 - Friday, July 29, 1864 - The Battle of Mercersburg
    • 10 - April 1865 - The Epilogue
  • Schools
    • Long Forgotten...Mercersburg Female Seminary
    • Mercersburg High School 1921-1954
    • Reflections in The Jester About Our Public Schools in Mercersburg
    • 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
    • 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
    • 01 - The Abolition Riot in 1837 - The Prologue
    • 02 - The Underground Railroad
    • 03 - Men from the Mercersburg Area Serving in the Union Armies
    • 04 - The Home Front
    • 06 - June 1863 - Prelude to Gettysburg
    • 07 - Friday, July 3, 1863
    • 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