Mazeppa is a populated place in Union County,

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, United States, named in honor of

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History

The settlement was originally named Union, and later called Boyertown, after early settler
Samuel Boyer (1804 - 1874) and his wife Sarah
A name change was required by the Post Office in 1886, to eliminate confusion with

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. Professor Clement E. Edmunds, being familiar with

Lord Byron George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known simply as Lord Byron, was an English romantic poet and peer. He was one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement, and has been regarded as among the ...

's poem Mazeppa, proposed the new name. John Rentschler built a mill in 1788. Its name was later anglicized to Rengler, then became known as Johnson Mill after being purchased by Fred I. Johnson in 1930. It operated on

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until 1945, then on diesel power until operations ceased in 1981. This explains the name of Mazeppa's main street
Johnson Mill Road aka T628
aka Pennsylvania Quadrant Route 1001.

References

External links

Mazeppa, Pennsylvania

Mazeppa in the National Geographic Service
{{authority control Unincorporated communities in Union County, Pennsylvania Unincorporated communities in Pennsylvania