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Sheakleyville is a borough in northern Mercer County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 142 at the 2010 census, [ 4 ] a figure which increased to 150 tabulated residents in 2020. [ 5 ] It is part of the Hermitage micropolitan area .
Sheakley was born on April 24, 1829, to Moses and Susanna (Limber) Sheakley in Sheakleyville, Pennsylvania. He was educated at the Sheakleyville common school and Meadville Academy. Sheakley was trained as a cabinet maker but worked instead as a teacher in rural schools. [1]
This is intended to be a complete list of the official state historical markers placed in Mercer 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.
Obama won Pennsylvania as a whole with 55% of the popular vote. Each of the three statewide office winners also carried Mercer in 2008. In 2016, Donald Trump won Mercer County by 12,403 votes, and he also won all of Pennsylvania. Each of the three Republican candidates for statewide office carried Mercer County in 2016.
John Washington Steele was born in Sheakleyville, Pennsylvania in 1843. In 1864, soon after wealth came to him through inheritance from the McClintocks' oil, the orphan John Steele left the farm which he had inherited from his foster or adoptive family, the McClintocks, and began a lavish and picturesque life, rapidly spending his way through his fortune.
The Jamestown and Franklin Railroad (J&F) was chartered under an act passed by the Pennsylvania General Assembly on April 5, 1862. [2] [3] It was permitted to build its line from Jamestown in Mercer County, Pennsylvania (about 2 miles (3.2 km) east of the Ohio-Pennsylvania border) to Oil City in Venango County, Pennsylvania. The company had the ...
Greenville has three museums: the Greenville Area Historical Society at the Waugh House Museum, the Greenville Railroad Park and Museum, and the Erie Extension Canal Museum. [24] The Railroad Park and Museum displays, among other railroad equipment, the last extant 0-10-2 "Union" steam locomotive. Every year on the first weekend in July ...
Mercer is a borough in and the county seat of Mercer County, Pennsylvania, United States. [4] The population was 1,982 at the 2020 census. [5] It is part of the Hermitage micropolitan area. The community was named after Brigadier General Hugh Mercer.