The borough of Lewistown, like so many other small towns inPennsylvania, is selling its soul to...Conti, John
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Another important feature of the town was the establishment of education. The first schoolhouse in the village is said to have been the Gamble Academy, a one-story two-room frame building standing on the hill in the north part of the village. Rev. John Gamble, the principal, was an except...
It is also borne by a town in Indiana, which was settled by John Caven, from Ligonier Valley, who gave the old name to the new town which he helped to found. Boucher, John N., History of Westmoreland County Pennsylvania, Volume I, The Lewis Publishing Company, New York, 1906....
Our quaint town is located in York County, Pennsylvania along the western banks of the Susquehanna River in the Susquehanna Valley Region of Pennsylvania and is well known for the burning of the bridge during the Civil War in 1863. A plaque located in the Samuel Lewis State Park indicates tha...