Gatesburg, Pennsylvania

Last updated

Gatesburg, Pennsylvania
Unincorporated community
USA Pennsylvania location map.svg
Red pog.svg
Gatesburg
Location within the U.S. state of Pennsylvania
Usa edcp location map.svg
Red pog.svg
Gatesburg
Gatesburg (the United States)
Coordinates: 40°44′41.22″N78°0′18.02″W / 40.7447833°N 78.0050056°W / 40.7447833; -78.0050056
Country United States
State Pennsylvania
County Centre
Township Ferguson
Elevation
1,276 ft (389 m)
Time zone UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-4 (EDT)
GNIS feature ID1175485 [1]

Gatesburg is a village and an unincorporated community in Ferguson Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of Happy Valley and the larger Nittany Valley. The village is northwest of a portion of the Gatesburg Ridge, northeast of Marengo, southeast of Stormstown, and southwest of the Scotia Barrens.

Henry Gates laid out the village of Gatesburg, [2] which had iron ore mine in the early nineteenth century that served the Centre Furnace. [3] The village is still home to the Gatesburg Lutheran Church and cemetery, as well as several farms. [2]

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Gatesburg, Pennsylvania
  2. 1 2 "The ABCs of Centre County". Centre County Historical Society. May 26, 2024.
  3. ↑ "Historic Resources of the Centre Region" (PDF). Centre Regional Planning Commission.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.