Union County Historical Society

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Union County Historical Society

Address: 103 South 2nd Street, Lewisburg, PA 17837-1903 in the Union County Courthouse. Please check the courthouse page for parking and building entrance instructions.

Phone: (570) 524-8666

FAX: (570) 524-8743

Email: hstoricl@ptd.net

Hours: Monday - Friday 8:30 a.m. - noon; 1 - 4 p.m. Closed federal holidays.

Fees for library use: $5.00 for non-members

Copy fees: 25¢ per page

Microform Holdings:

• Federal Population Schedules 1790-1920 (Union 1820-1930; Snyder 1860-1920; Northumberland 1790-1920; Schuylkill 1880-1920; Philadelphia 1850)
• Direct Tax of 1798 for Northumberland County
• Tax Assessments (Union 1792-188w; Snyder 1792-1881)
• Agricultural Census 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880
• Manufacturer's Reports 1850 and 1860
• Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for Lewisburg 1885-1925; Mifflinburg 1887-1943
• Union County Annual Enumeration and Assessment 1883-1946
• Union County Commissioners Minutes 1813-1894; Treasurers books 1822-1836; License Books 1836-1856
• Mortality Census 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880
• Burials of Deceased Soldiers 1886-1915
• Pennsylvania Veterans Census 1890
• Newspapers (years, title, place of publication)

• 1834-1835 Union Annalist (New Berlin)
• 1834-1855 Union Times (New Berlin)
• 1835-1837 Anti-Masonic Star (New Berlin)
• 1838-1841 The Milton Ledger (Milton, Northumberland County)
• 1839 Lewisburg Standard (Lewisburg)
• 1841 The Union Star (New Berlin)
• 1843-1848 Clinton County Democrat (Lock Haven, Clinton County)
• 1847-1912 Lewisburg Chronicle (Lewisburg)
• 1847 Good Samaritan (New Berlin)
• 1850-1852 Der Christliche Botschafter (New Berlin)
• 1862-1998 Mifflinburg Telegraph (Mifflinburg, missing 1868-1872)
• 1910-1952 Lewisburg Journal (Lewisburg)
• 1999-2002 Union County Times (Lewisburg)

Hard Copy Holdings:

• Family Histories
• Store accounts and ledgers
• Annals of Buffalo Valley by John Blair Linn
• Commemorative Biographical Record
• Civil War Soldiers of Union County by Mary Belle Lontz
• Early Assessment Records by Mary Belle Lontz
• Guide to Union County Cemeteries by Thomas Finsterbush, et al.
• History of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys by Hungerford and Ellis
• Revolutionary War Soldiers of Union County by Mary Belle Lontz
• Tombstone Inscriptions of Union County by Mary Belle Lontz
• A Town on the Susquehanna by Lois Kalp
• Union County by Charles M. Snyder
• Union County Marriages
• Deaths and Marriages
• Central Pennsylvania Marriages
• Ministerial Records