Dauphin Borough

Dauphin Borough Hall is located at 200 Church Street, Dauphin PA 17018; phone: 717-921-2633.

Beginnings [1]

A river [Susquehanna] resort town at the narrows of the majestic Second Mountain gap, was the site of a gristmill as early as 1770. Later, lumbering leinhabitants to entertain great but illusory hopes of industrial and commercial development.

North of Dauphin, hill farms rise from the scrubby wooded river banks; mountains hem in the route and habitations are few.

1. Writers Project, Works Project Administration, Pennsylvania, A Guide to the Keystone State, 1940, Federal Works Agency, John M. Carmody, Administrator