Mazeppa is a

populated place In geography, statistics and archaeology, a settlement, locality or populated place is a community of people living in a particular place. The complexity of a settlement can range from a minuscule number of dwellings grouped together to t ...

in Union County,

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, United States, named in honor of

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Ivan Mazepa Ivan Stepanovych Mazepa (; ; ) was the Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host and the Left-bank Ukraine in 1687–1708. The historical events of Mazepa's life have inspired Cultural legacy of Mazeppa, many literary, artistic and musical works. He was ...

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 Boyertown, Berks County. Professor Clement E. Edmunds, being familiar with

Lord Byron George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was an English poet. He is one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, and is regarded as being among the greatest poets of the United Kingdom. Among his best-kno ...

'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

water power Hydropower (from Ancient Greek -, "water"), also known as water power or water energy, is the use of falling or fast-running water to produce electricity or to power machines. This is achieved by converting the gravitational potential or kin ...

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