Upper Strasburg is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
that is located in
Letterkenny Township in
Franklin County,
Pennsylvania
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, United States.
It is situated near the
Tuscarora Mountain
Tuscarora Mountain is a mountain ridge of the Appalachian Mountains in the Ridge and Valley province in central Pennsylvania. It reaches its highest point on Big Mountain (Pennsylvania) at above sea level. The mountain is named after the Tusca ...
ridge in the
Appalachian Mountains
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at the intersection of
Pennsylvania Route 533, State Route 4004 (Mountain Road/Valley Road), and Community Road, northwest of
Chambersburg
Chambersburg is a borough in and the county seat of Franklin County, in the South Central region of Pennsylvania, United States. It is in the Cumberland Valley, which is part of the Great Appalachian Valley, and north of Maryland and the Ma ...
and north of the
Letterkenny Army Depot
Letterkenny Army Depot (originally Letterkenny Ordnance Depot), the Center of Industrial and Technical Excellence (CITE) for Air Defense and Tactical Missile Systems, was established in early 1942. Its leadership began recruiting civilian personn ...
.
History
The road from Upper Strasburg to
Fannettsburg and on to
Burnt Cabins was built ''circa'' 1790 and for many years formed part of the main road from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh. The road is now part of SR 4004 and was known as ''Three Mountain Road'' or ''Horse Valley Road'' but is generally known as ''Upper Strasburg Road'' now.
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The town was laid out in 1789 by Dewalt Keefer and serviced Conestoga wagons and travelers crossing the mountains. The early post office, established by 1797, was originally known simply as Strasburg, but the name was changed to Upper Strasburg by 1830 to distinguish it from towns in eastern Pennsylvania.
In 1873, the town had three churches, "one hotel, one steam tannery, one sawmill, two stores, two blacksmith, two shoe-maker, two cabinet-maker, one tailor and one saddler shops, and two hundred ninety-three inhabitants."
ZIP code information
The Upper Strasburg
ZIP code 17265 covers , a population of 496 and 294 housing units, 211 of them occupied.
[ Note that this is not an official USPS website, but it includes a map.]
Gallery
Upper Strasburg FrankCo PA USPS 17265.JPG, Post office
File:Upper Strasburg FrankCo PA red brick.JPG, End of PA 533
Upper Strasburg FrankCo PA Eagle Hotel 1793.JPG, The old Eagle Hotel
Upper Strasburg FrankCo PA log and brick house.JPG, A log house with a brick addition
Upper Strasburg FrankCo PA log house.JPG, A log house with a barn star
Upper Strasburg FrankCo PA Luthern church.JPG, Upper Strasburg Lutheran Church in 2014
See also
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Cowans Gap State Park
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Fort Loudon, Pennsylvania
Fort Loudon is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Peters Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 895.
History
The community is named after the colonial ...
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Horse Valley Bridge
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Skinner Tavern
References
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Unincorporated communities in Franklin County, Pennsylvania
Unincorporated communities in Pennsylvania