Mountville Borough

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Borough municipal offices are located at 21 East Main Street, Mountville PA 17554; phone: 717-285-5547. The Mountville Library is located at 2 College Avenue, Mountville PA 17554; phone: 717-285-3231.

The area was first settled around 1814; incorporated as a borough in 1900 from West Hempfield Township. Main thoroughfares are Main Street (east-west, Route 462) and Lincoln Highway (east-west, Route 30).

Pennsylvania Guide, 1940

MOUNTVILLE, 6.9 in. (440 alt.,954 pop.), first named Mount Pleasant, was laid out in 1854 by Isaac Rohrer, who owned iron mines in the neighborhood. The depletion of the ore at Ironville and Silver Springs, a few miles north, drove part of the population into the large cities, but the remainder stayed to plant the fields with tobacco.

Federal Writers Project, Works Progress Administration, 1940

Polk's 1882 Gazetteer

MOUNTVILLE. This village of 469 inabitants is on Columbia Br. Penn. R. R., in West Hempfield township, Lancaster county, 6 miles west of Lancaster, the county seat. Tobacco, live stock and grain are marketed. Ex., Adams. Tel W. U. R. M. Fridy, postmaster.

Arent V, brewer.
Bailey H E, shoemkr.
Colm H S, mer tailor.
Firle Adam, blacksmith.
Fridy John M, leaf tobacco.
Fridy A M, General Store.
Froelich Henry, confectioner.
Froelich John M, carpenter.
Gable John P, harnessinkr.
Grider, J M, Justice of the Peace.
Heiss Frederick, meat market.
Hogendobler G, barber.
Hoover & Yohn, cattle dealers.
Humphreyville Henry, tinner.
Kaufman Isaac H, leaf tobacco.
Kiefer Henry, saloon.
Livingston G M, physician.
Marks Sarah Miss, milliner.
Musser A S, General Store.
Musser M G, leaf tobacco.
Myers A R, general store.
Newcomer J M, blacksmith.
Pennypacker John, shoemkr.
Reitzle Jacob, carpenter.
Rohrer A K, physician.
Shindle & Stehman, leaf tobacco.
Slaughter David, confectioner.
Stehman J G, Grain.
Stoner Levi M, wagonmkr.
Sugars G S, druggist.
Sugars H S, notions.
Witmer J S, hotel.
Witmer & Weidler, live stock.
Yohn John, hotel.

R.L.Polk, Pennsylvania State Gazetteer & Business Directory, 1882, Philadelphia