Palmyra, Pennsylvania Palmyra, Pennsylvania Official logo of Palmyra, Pennsylvania Map of Lebanon County, Pennsylvania highlighting Palmyra Map of Lebanon County, Pennsylvania highlighting Palmyra Palmyra is positioned in Pennsylvania Palmyra - Palmyra Palmyra is a borough in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, United States.
It is part of the Lebanon, Pennsylvania Metropolitan statistical area.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the borough has a total region of 1.9 square miles (4.9 km2), all of it land.
Palmyra is positioned in the Lebanon Valley between Annville and Hershey.
Situated on the edge of Lebanon County, the borough is 10 mi (16 km) west of Lebanon, and 17 mi (27 km) east of Harrisburg.
The village of Campbelltown is only 2 mi (3.2 km) south of Palmyra.
Kochanov wrote an extensive report on the geology of the Palmyra region as part of the 1995 publication, Karst Geohazards.
Palmyra lies in the easterly section of the Great Valley, locally known as the Lebanon Valley.
The specific formation beneath Palmyra is an Ordovician Epler Formation, characterized by a high number of surface depressions and sinkholes.
The territory on which Palmyra rests was originally home to the Lenape and Susquehannock tribes.
The squatters came to the Palmyra region between 1717 and 1740.
From looking at what records do exist, and by the citizens still living in the Palmyra area, it is clear that the first pioneer to live near Palmyra came from two distinct nationalities, the Scotch-Irish and the German Palatinates. Of the first Scotch-Irish pioneer in the Palmyra area, the surnames of Aspey, Campbell, Caruthers, Ewing, Galbraith, Mc - Callen, Mc - Clure, Mc - Cord, Mitchell, Sawyer, Walker and Wilson are recorded. Of the first German pioneer in the Palmyra area, the surnames of Bindnagle, Bowman, Carmany, Deininger, Early, Forney, Gingrich, Hemperly, Hetrick, Kettering, Killinger, Naftzger, Nye, Ober, Ricker, and Zimmerman are recorded. The Palmyra area, as well as the entire edge of the European colonies, was susceptible to attack from the tribes of natives living in the region.
In their histories of Lebanon County, Rupp and Egle note many raids that took place in what is now northern Lebanon County.
Yet in 1806, there are records of a tract of territory located on both sides of Main Street purchased by John Kean with the settlement being referred to as "Palmyra", most likely referencing the Roman outpost of Palmyra in Syria.
Although both names were used for a time, the popularity of "Palmyra" had spread and became the official name of the settlement by 1810. Upon its opening in 1817, Palmyra attained a direct connection to its neighbors Millerstown (now Annville) and Derry (now Hershey), and to the larger markets in easterly Pennsylvania.
This ran through Campbelltown just south of Palmyra and later became part of US 322.
Another meaningful route that crossed the Palmyra region included the road which led from the Bindnagle settlement to Campbelltown, which is now PA 117. With the opening of these routes, and the incorporation of Harrisburg as the State Capital in 1812, more and more traffic moved through the Palmyra area.
In the first decades of the 19th century, Palmyra had five taverns and three hotels to serve the needs of those moving through the area.
The canal passed just north of Palmyra, and the settlement's people benefited from the increased traffic.
The Age of Steam also came to Palmyra in 1857, as the first locomotives ran through the settlement on the Lebanon Valley Railroad in that year.
About 78 men from the Palmyra region answered the President's call, and donned the blue uniforms of the Union.
After the Civil War concluded in 1865, a range of new businesses were established to better serve the Palmyra area.
A knitting mill, paper box factory, gas and fuel company, bakery, bottling works, and a feed foundry was also open in Palmyra around the start of the 20th century.
Hershey's chocolate business in close-by Derry also encouraged citizens to move to the Palmyra area. In 1899, the Lebanon Valley Street Railway Company was formed to furnish transit athwart the length of Lebanon County.
By this time, the Hershey Trolley Company had also formed, and soon after that connected to the Lebanon Valley Line at the square in Palmyra.
The design, which is modeled on the Pennsylvania state seal and features the official orange and black colors of the Palmyra School District.
Due to its position between Harrisburg and Lebanon, and the popularity of neighboring Hershey, Palmyra is economically prosperous.
Palmyra is the command posts for a several companies, including ASK Foods, Inc., Dechert Dynamics Corp.,Klick-Lewis, Inc., and the Palmyra Bologna Co., Inc., which produces Seltzer's Lebanon Bologna.
The first two no-charge enhance schools opened in Palmyra in 1840.
Before this time, church schools and private schools served the kids of Palmyra.
In addition to the enhance schools, the Palmyra Academy, also known as the Witmer Academy after its founder, Peter B.
The Palmyra Academy was praised as one of the best schools of its kind in the area.
The Palmyra Academy closed its doors in 1890, and the Academy Building was torn down nine years later. Coming with the expansion of the region and the formation of a Borough Government, the Palmyra Borough School District was created in 1913.
In 1952, the administrators of the Borough of Palmyra and North Londonderry Township agreed to operate their schools cooperatively, and three years later consolidated to problematic the Palmyra Area School District.
In 1962, the schools of South Londonderry Township joined the Palmyra Area School District. Since its formation the precinct has served the Borough of Palmyra, and both North and South Londonderry Townships, including the villages of Campbelltown, Lawn, and Timber Hills.
The Palmyra Area School District presently operates four elementary schools (Forge Road, Pine Street, Northside and Lingle Avenue), one middle school and one high school.
All school buildings are positioned inside the Borough of Palmyra, with the exceptions of the high school and Lingle Avenue Elementary, which are just south of the borough limits in North Londonderry Township. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Palmyra, Pennsylvania.
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