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Jersey Shore is a borough in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is on the West Branch Susquehanna River , 15 miles (24 km) west by south of Williamsport . It is part of the Williamsport, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area .
The Borough of Jersey Shore had its beginnings in pre-Revolutionary War days, according to newspaper accounts of the town's history.[4]Dean R. Wagner, who prepared the form which helped secure the Jersey Shore Historic District's placement on the National Register of Historic Places, the present day Borough of Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania confirmed in 1975 that the town is located on lands which ...
A view of historic Jersey Shore. Jersey Shore was incorporated as a borough on March 15, 1826. The history of Jersey Shore begins about fifty years before it was incorporated and on the opposite bank of the West Branch Susquehanna River in what is now Nippenose Township.
The fort was built under the direction of Colonel Antes, who was a member of the Pennsylvania militia. It was on the east side of Antes Creek, overlooking and on the left bank of the West Branch Susquehanna River on a plateau in Nippenose Township south of modern day Jersey Shore in western Lycoming County.
Lycoming County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.As of the 2020 census, the population was 114,188. [1] Its county seat is Williamsport. [2] The county is part of the North-Central Pennsylvania region of the state.
The British colonial government purchased land from the Iroquois in the Treaty of Fort Stanwix of 1768, opening new lands in Pennsylvania and New York for settlement, including what is now Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. Lycoming County is about 100 mi (160 km) northwest of Philadelphia and about 165 mi (265 km) east-northeast of Pittsburgh.
The Jersey Shore, Pine Creek and State Line Railroad was a paper railroad planned in northern Pennsylvania.. The railroad was incorporated on April 11, 1853, to run from Jersey Shore, in Lycoming County, to the New York state line, up Pine Creek through Tioga, Potter and McKean Counties, or turning at Gaines from Pine Creek up Long Run to reach the state line.
Highways enter north and south on Pennsylvania Route 44, the very old Jersey Shore (log road) Turnpike, and from west to east on U.S. Route 6, the "Grand Army of the Republic Highway", which had been long a major mid-east-states east-west corridor before the construction of Interstate highways which began in the late 1950s. The most noted ...