Millersburg, Pennsylvania

Millersburg is a borough in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States. According to the US Census Bureau, the 2010 population declined to 2,557 people. The population was 2,562 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Harrisburg–Carlisle Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Held on the second weekend of August every year is a bike race called the Tour de Millersburg. The bike race has a race each day (time laps don't count). The Saturday race starts and ends at the corner of Church & Moore Streets and goes down to Union Street, then goes up Race Street, and across Bowman Street (maybe), then heads down Church Street and back to the starting line. There is a pit stop at the corner of Race and Herman Streets. The Sunday race heads through the countryside. It starts at the famous gazebo at the square where US 209 meets PA 147. It involves a back road called Shippen Dam Road. The route involves PA 25. For both races, there are motorcycles at both the beginning and end of the line of racers to signal the line of racers beginning and ending. During the race no car can proceed through any intersections until the line of racers completely passes by. For more information, visit the Tour de Millersburg website, at www.tourdemillersburg.com.

Borough

Millersburg, Pennsylvania

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Location in Dauphin County and state of Pennsylvania.

Geography

Millersburg is located on the east bank of the Susquehanna River at40°32′30″N 76°57′26″W (40.541676, -76.957283).According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough of Millersburg has a total area of 0.8 square miles (2.1 km²), all of it land.

History

Millersburg was founded in 1807 by Daniel Miller, for whom the town was named.

The Millersburg Ferry and Millersburg Passenger Rail Station are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.^[3] During the spring of 1790, Daniel Miller and his brother, John were traveling north along the Susquehanna River. When they arrived at the north side of Berry's Mountain, tradition has it, Daniel was so taken with the beauty of the area where the Wiconisco Creek joined with the Susquehanna that he resolved to purchase the land at that location. On June 2, 1790, Daniel received a deed for 979-1/4 acres at the mouth of the Wiconisco Creek from William Von Phul of Philadelphia, the then owner of the land upon which Millersburg is now situated.

In 1794, Daniel built his first cabin that later served as a school in which Daniel himself taught the children of the surrounding area without compensation. The building was on the site of the old Johnson-Baillie Shoe Company factory on Pine near Market Street. It was not until 1805, upon completion of a more suitable dwelling which still stands on the northeast corner of Pine and Walnut Streets that Daniel brought his wife, Elizabeth, and their two children to their new home. In 1807, Daniel Miller's dream of a town on the banks of the Susquehanna became a reality. During that year, he had the land surveyed and laid out into lots, reserving land for churches, the town square and a riverside park. Until a church could be built, Daniel, who was a lay minister of the Methodist Church, held services in his own home.

Transportation in Millersburg has always been a very important commodity to the community. The two major transportation plans to come to Millersburg the one was conceived as the Lykens Valley R.R. & Coal Company and the second was the extension of the Pennsylvania Canal both proposed in the 1830s. The state began construction of the Wiconisco Canal as part of the Eastern Division of the Pennsylvania Canal in 1837. Millersburg was the northern terminus of the Dauphin County Canal network.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millersburg,_Pennsylvania

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