Hogestown, Pennsylvania

City: Hogestown

County: Cumberland

State: Pennsylvania

Lat/Long: 40.2333, -77.0167

Hogestown, Pennsylvania is a community in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Lying within Silver Spring township in the northwestern section of the county, Hogestown first saw white settlement about 1730 when John Hoge bought a large tract of land that includes the present location of Hogestown. Settlers established Hogeston on a small stream called Hoge's Run. For years, the only house on the tract of land, known as the old stone tavern, was owned by the Hoge family. The second house was not built until about 1820 and was a small log cabin. The Harrisburg and Chambersburg Turnpike, begun in 1816, passed through Hogestown and served as a main thoroughfare until the completion of the Cumberland Valley Railroad.

P. A. Durand and J. Fraise Richard, History of Cumberland County Pennsylvania (Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1995), 75, 336, 338-39.