HILLSBORO
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NAME: Hillsboro COUNTY: Washington ROADS: 2WD GRID: 1 CLIMATE: Cold snowy wenters, mild summers BEST TIME TO VISIT: Late Spring through Earily Fall |
COMMENTS: Hillsboro was located aprox. between two and three miles northeast of Beallsville between Spring Valley Road and Needmore Road on PA 40, on the old National Road in West Bethleham township, Washington County in southwestern Pennsylvania. REMAINS: House foundations,, Lutheran Church foundation, old abandoned Lutheran church cemetery where my seventh Grandparents, Gasper and Charity Ricket are buried. |
| The town was founded about the time of the Revolution and became a stop on the old National Highway, now East National Pike, PA HGWY 40. It prospered until the invention of the Railroads. When the PA road department took some of the sharp corners out of it in the 1850s the town was bypassed and died. Submitted by: Bennie Nona Ruth Bailey Masters Maine |
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