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Lewistown is a borough in and the county seat of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, United States. [3] It is the principal city of the Lewistown, PA Micropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Mifflin County. [4] It lies along the Juniata River, 61 miles (98 km) northwest of Harrisburg.
July 23, 1998 (6 South Main Street: Lewistown: Vaudeville and movie theater built in 1927. 2: Juniata Terrace Historic District: May 17, 2024 (Bound by Delaware Ave, the store on Rt. 103, the school & playgrounds continuing west along Hudson Avenue and Community Avenue, south along 4th St, east to the garages on Delaware Avenue.
Mifflin County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.As of the 2020 census, the population was 46,143. [1] Its county seat is Lewistown. [2] [1] The county was created on September 19, 1789, from parts of Cumberland County and Northumberland County.
This is intended to be a complete list of the official state historical markers placed in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC). The locations of the historical markers, as well as the latitude and longitude coordinates as provided by the PHMC's database, are included below when available.
The Mifflin County Historic Courthouse is an historic, American courthouse building that is located in Lewistown, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. [1]
Fort Granville was a militia stockade located in the colonial Province of Pennsylvania. Its site was about a mile from Lewistown, in what is now Granville Township, Mifflin County. Active from 1755 until 1756, the stockade briefly sheltered pioneer settlers in the Juniata River valley during the French and Indian War. [1]
McCoy House is a historic home located at Lewistown, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, across from the Mifflin County Courthouse. It was built between 1836 and 1843, and is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, brick and frame dwelling in the Federal style. It has a gable roof and a double chimney linked at the base. Frank Ross McCoy was born in the house in 1874. [2]
The turnpike had been authorized in 1807, and the section from Harrisburg to Lewistown, on which the bridge lies, was completed in 1818. Lithographers Currier and Ives made prints of the bridge in 1850. [2] The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 18, 1979. [1]