Shepherdstown
Shepherdstown is an unincorporated community that is located in Upper Allen Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is situated just south of Mechanicsburg and is home to the Union Hotel that was built in 1860 by Abraham Zook and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet
- Description: unincorporated community in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
- Also known as: “Sheperdstown”, “Shepherdstown, PA”, and “Shepherdstown, Pennsylvania”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Union Hotel and Messiah University.
Union Hotel
Historic building
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The Union Hotel, also known as the Shepherdstown Hotel or Hilltop Inn, is an historic, American hotel that is located in Shepherdstown in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
Messiah University
University
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Messiah University is a private interdenominational evangelical Christian university in Upper Allen Township, Pennsylvania, near Mechanicsburg.
Mechanicsburg Area Senior High School
School
Mechanicsburg Area Senior High School is a secondary school located on 500 South Broad Street in the borough of Mechanicsburg, west of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The school is part of the Mechanicsburg Area School District. Mechanicsburg Area Senior High School is situated 2½ miles northwest of Shepherdstown.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bowmansdale and Grantham.
Bowmansdale
Hamlet
Bowmansdale is an unincorporated community located in Upper Allen Township in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States, south of Mechanicsburg. It is named after Jacob Bowman, a former Cumberland County sheriff.
Grantham
Hamlet
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Grantham is an unincorporated community in Upper Allen Township, Cumberland County, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, best known today for the Christian liberal arts college, Messiah University, whose students make up most of its population.
Mechanicsburg
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Mechanicsburg is a borough of 9,000 people in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Mechanicsburg is eight miles west of Harrisburg. It is home to Jubilee Day, the largest and longest-running-one-day street fair on the east coast.
Shepherdstown
- Categories: unincorporated community in the United States and locality
- Location: Upper Allen Township, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.17759° or 40° 10′ 39″ northLongitude
-76.99137° or 76° 59′ 29″ westElevation
630 feet (192 metres)Open location code
87G552H5+2FOpenStreetMap ID
node 158621293OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Persian—“Shepherdstown” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Shepherdstown, Pennsylvania”
- Albanian: “Shepherdstown”
- French: “Shepherdstown”
- Persian: “شفردزتاون، پنسیلوانیا”
- Persian: “شفردزتاون”
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