Dillersville, Pennsylvania
Dillersville is an extinct hamlet in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Dillersville was established between the Harrisburg and Manheim pikes, at the intersection of the Lancaster and Reading railroads.[1]
The Dillersville name lives on in the Conrail maintenance yard in Lancaster, a wetlands known as the Dillersville swamp, and in Dillersville Road.
According to an 1855 publication, the Pennsylvania Railroad, double-tracked, runs east from Dillersville 69 miles to Philadelphia and west to Columbia; at Dillersville, there is a junction with the Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mount Joy and Lancaster Railroad, which extends 36 miles to Harrisburg.[2]
An 1864 atlas of Lancaster County shows six property owners in Dillersville: Benjamin Herr, Henry Huber, Hy Holl, Patrick McLaughlin, Samuel Ruth, and Emil Shober.[3] Lue E. Huber, age 42, died in Dillerville on April 16, 1893[4] and Viola Keith, age 1 year, on Mar 1, 1888[5] according to inscriptions on their headstones.
In the Lancaster County Historical Society Vol. 53, No. 3, p.87[6] a list of teachers for the one-room schoolhouse is given as:
- In 1851-52 James Benson was teaching a group of 44 including the names Ruth Hall, McGrann, Schreiner, Huber, Smith, McGlaughlan, Blizzard, hackman, Swails, Graft and Getz. The school was referred to as No. 5 and was located "on the west side of Dillersville Lane opposite the lane that led to the Brennan Farm".
- About 1895, Harry R. Bassler
- about 1900, Miss Anna Eby
- 1903, Miss Ada Burkholder (Shuman)
- 1904, Mr. Evans
- 1905, Dr. J.G. Hess
- 1906, C. H. Martin (Treasurer of the historical society) with fifty-five pupils in eight grades
- 1907, John Matter
- Later, and for twenty years, it was occupied as a dwelling by Frank Heisler.
In 1999, students from the Lancaster Academy planted more than 500 wetland plants, including buttonbush, soft-stem bullrush, water iris and silky dogwood in an eight-acre wetland near Red Rose Commons, known as the Dillersville Swamp.[7]
Geography
Leaman Place is located at 40°0′26″N 76°7′0″W / 40.00722°N 76.11667°WInvalid arguments have been passed to the {{#coordinates:}} function (40.007222, -76.116667)Template:GR, and is 385 feet above mean sea level.
References
- ^ Manheim Township Comprehensive Plan
- ^ Guide for the Pennsylvania Railroad
- ^ 1864 Atlas
- ^ Lancaster Cemetery, Surnames Starting HO thru I, Lancaster, Lancaster County, PA
- ^ Lancaster Cemetery, Surnames Starting J thru KE, Lancaster, Lancaster County, PA
- ^ Brian C. Bassler on PALANCAS-L
- ^ PennDEP newsletter
