Lewisburg, Pennsylvania

City: Lewisburg

County: Union

State: Pennsylvania

Lat/Long: 40.9500, -76.8833

The borough of Lewisburg is located in central Pennsylvania, twenty-one miles south-southeast of Williamsport. Lewisburg was laid out in 1785 and was incorporated as a borough in the early 1820s. The borough was positively affected by its location on a portion of the Pennsylvania Canal that was constructed in 1827 and 1828. Lewisburg was located in Union County, from which Snyder County was split off in 1855, at which point Lewisburg became the county seat of Union County.

Merriam-Webster’s Geographical Dictionary, 3rd ed. (Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, 1997), 646; Charles M. Snyder, Union County Pennsylvania: A Bicentennial History (Lewisburg, PA: Colonial Printing House, 1977), 90-93; History of That Part of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys, Embraced in the Counties of Mifflin, Juniata, Perry, Union and Snyder, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886), 2:1244, 1257.