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April 12, 1828
- Present-day Mechanicsburg is centered on 100 acres (40 ha) that Leonard Fisher purchased from Joseph Heynes' tract (No. 1442 of an original grant of 267 acres (1.08 km 2) from William Penn. Before becoming incorporated on April 12, 1828, the town went by several different names.
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The Mechanicsburg Museum Association was founded in 1975 in a community effort to preserve the Stationmaster’s House, a historic Mechanicsburg landmark, from destruction.
Present-day Mechanicsburg is centered on 100 acres (40 ha) that Leonard Fisher purchased from Joseph Heynes' tract (No. 1442 of an original grant of 267 acres (1.08 km 2) from William Penn. Before becoming incorporated on April 12, 1828, the town went by several different names.
Mechanicsburg: The Cumberland Valley Railroad was originally incorporated on April 2, 1831. The railroad was finished within a half mile of Harrisburg and within one mile of Carlisle by August 1837. Adam Riegel, Henry Ford and Lewis Zearing of Mechanicsburg and nine other men acted as commissioners and took subscriptions for stock at $50 a share.
- Cumberland County
Mechanicsburg is a city located in the county of Beaver in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Its population at the 2010 census was 8,981 and a population density of 3,727 people per km². After 10 years in 2020 city had an estimated population of 9,017 inhabitants. The city was created 218 years ago in 1805.
- United States of America
- 9,017 (2020)
- Beaver County
- Pennsylvania (United States)
Mechanicsburg was first lighted with gas in September, 1868. The gas works are owned by an incorporated company, and are situated at the eastern limits of the borough. The town is also well supplied with water, from a reservoir located in Upper Allen Township.
Mechanicsburg is a borough of 9,000 people (2019) in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Mechanicsburg is eight miles west of Harrisburg. It is home to Jubilee Day, the largest and longest-running-one-day street fair on the east coast. Understand. edit.
According to Hauck’s 1876 Directory of Mechanicsburg, George Zacharias occupied the position of general freight and ticket agent at the Mechanicsburg Cumberland Valley Railroad Station since 1860. The 1860 Census records George as a commercial merchant. The 1870 and 1880 Censuses record George as a telegraph operator.
