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THE BOROUGHS
Camp Hill incorporated in 1885
Lemoyne in 1905
Wormleysburg in 1908
West Fairview in 1910.
THE VILLAGES
ENOLA - got its name from Francis
and Wesley Miller. Wesley sold about 2 acres of land to the Northern Central
Railroad to be used as a flag station. He had a chance to name the station and
named it after their four-year-old daughter, Enola Francis Miller.
In the fall of 1902 the Pennsylvania Railroad made the decision to build a
classification yard "between Marysville and West Fairview." In 1903
their agent, The Manor Realty Co. after purchasing 743 acres, officially opened
the Yards in January 1905. Of the 743 acres, the Enola Realty Co. bought 104
acres for $26,500. This would officially become known as Enola (our current
North Enola).
The Realty Company went on to build more than 220 homes which they rented or sold to families coming to our village looking for employment.
SOUTH ENOLA- grew all most as rapidly North Enola. Some of the landowners were Mann, Bretz, Darr, Rupley, Pyne (Pine Street) and Addams (Adams Street).
WEST ENOLA- also grew with the boom of the Enola Yards. The largest landowner of that time was Britton. Other large landowners were Lantz and Renninger.
SUMMERDALE - got its name from Harry
Horner. In March 1909 he purchased 115 acres and laid out the town of
Summerdale. By June 1910, he completed a Dance Hall (the soda fountain alone
cost $1,500). During the hot summer months, people would travel by trolley from
Harrisburg to this village. Its location, at the foot of the Blue Mountains,
certainly made it a Summer Dale.
OVERVIEW - got its name from D. S. Seitz. He laid out the village in 1910. Much of Overview became displaced when route 81 was built in 1972.
POSSUM HOLLOW - we are told, was so named after it was discovered that a possum had made her home in a hollow tree. Surprisingly the village is older than Enola, Summerdale or Overview. Its most famous citizen was Mrs. Catherine Kreitzer. In June 1955, she won $32,000 on "The $64,000 Question" television show. Seventy Million viewers watched her in the greatest jackpot ever given out on a radio or television program at that time. Possum Hollow is also home of the Pine Hill Arboretum.
WEST FAIRVIEW -
This former
borough is by far the oldest of our villages. Abraham Neidig Sr., laid out the
town in 1816. By 1852 it had a post office and fifteen houses and by 1879 it had
more than three hundred homes, four schools, three churches, one hotel and the
Harrisburg Nail Works that employed 350 people. Until 1910 it was the East
Pennsboro School District.
It has several "claims to fame." The first (and most likely the
only) female football coach, and for the period, the largest nail factory in the
United States.
History records time and time again the residents of this village gathering yearly. The mode of transportation, railroads and trolleys, has changed over the decades, but the annual gathering continues.
East Pennsboro is proud of its many villages, each with their own identity and history.