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Lebanon County, Pennsylvania

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3newspaper titles

0digitized titles

31historic places

1874earliest paper

1813formed

143,257pop. 2020

139cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The Library of Congress U.S. Newspaper Directory lists 3 newspaper titles published in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, with the earliest starting in 1874. None of these titles are currently digitized on Chronicling America. The National Register of Historic Places includes 31 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 4 are also National Historic Landmarks. Most listings are in or near Lebanon, Schaefferstown, Newmanstown.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers published in Lebanon

Library of Congress

3 newspaper titles

Title	Place	Years
The Annville Record and Lebanon Valley Standard	Annville	1874–1876
The Annville Gazette	Annville	1878–1884
The Annville Journal	Annville	1887–1938

Source: Library of Congress U.S. Newspaper Directory. “Digitized” links lead to page images on Chronicling America.

Coverage timeline

Newspapers

Each bar is one title’s publication span. brown = digitized on Chronicling America Open-ended runs extend to today.

18701909194819872026

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

20 of 31 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

31 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Alden Villa	Cornwall Borough	Building	2011
Annville Historic District	Annville	District	1979
Biever House	Annville	Building	1978
Bindnagles Evangelical Lutheran Church	Palmyra	Building	1975
Bomberger's Distillery NHL	Newmanstown	Building	1975
Brendle Farms	Schaefferstown	Building	1972
Chestnut Street Log House	Lebanon	Building	1978
Colebrook Iron Master's House	South Londonderry	Building	2010
Cornwall & Lebanon Railroad Station	Lebanon	Building	1974
Cornwall Iron Furnace NHL	Cornwall	District	1966
Erpff, Philip, House	Schaefferstown	Building	1979
Funck, Josiah, Mansion	Lebanon	Building	1980
Gloninger Estate	Lebanon	Building	1980
House of Miller at Millbach	Newmanstown	Building	1973
Landis Shoe Company Building	Palmyra	Building	1980
Lebanon Veterans Administration Hospital Historic District	South Lebanon	District	2013
Meier, Isaac, Homestead	Myerstown	Building	1973
Mt. Gretna Campmeeting Historic District	Mt. Gretna Heights	District	2012
Pennsylvania Chautauqua Historic District	Mount Gretna	District	2015
Reading Railroad Station	Lebanon	Building	1975
Rex House	Schaefferstown	Building	1980
Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church	Lebanon	Building	2010
Schaeffer House NHL	Schaefferstown, Heidelberg Township	Building	2011
Schaefferstown Historic District	Schaefferstown	District	2023
St. Lukes Episcopal Church	Lebanon	Building	1974
Stauffer, Dr. B., House	Campbelltown	Building	1979
Tabor Reformed Church	Lebanon	Building	1980
Tulpehocken Manor Plantation	Myerstown	Building	1975
Union Canal Tunnel NHL	Lebanon	Structure	1974
Waterville Bridge	Swatara Gap	Structure	1988
Zeller, Heinrich, House	Newmanstown	Building	1975

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Lebanon was formed in 1813 (1813-02-16) from Dauphin, Lancaster.

LEBANON created from DAUPHIN and LANCASTER.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Lebanon County population from 1820 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1820	1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
16,988	21,872	31,831	38,476	53,827	63,152	72,641	81,683	90,853	108,582	120,327	143,257

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

139 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 80 of 139 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Albright Cemetery	40.30387	-76.25068
Annville United Brethren Cemetery	40.32576	-76.52247
Annville United Zion Cemetery	40.33751	-76.51987
Bachman Cemetery	40.27387	-76.48375
Becker Cemetery	40.31748	-76.24234
Bellegrove United Methodist Church Cemetery	40.37065	-76.54932
Beth Israel Cemetery	40.35432	-76.40437
Bethel Moravian Cemetery	40.46231	-76.48619
Bindnagle Lutheran Cemetery	40.34426	-76.61714
Bismarck Cemetery	40.28318	-76.43577
Black Oak Hill Cemetery	40.38014	-76.48105
Blauch Family Graveyard	40.33835	-76.56408
Blue Meeting House Cemetery	40.29343	-76.23337
Bowman - Kreider Farm Cemetery	40.34389	-76.47708
Bowman - Mark Cemetery	40.32436	-76.59001
Breidenstine Cemetery	40.30251	-76.36387
Brightbill Meeting House Cemetery	40.2812	-76.54208
Brubacher Cemetery	40.29384	-76.34008
Bucher Graveyard	40.27866	-76.39032
Buchers Meeting House Cemetery	40.28493	-76.38705
Bunker Hill Evangelical Cemetery	40.3947	-76.48512
Campbelltown United Christian Cemetery	40.27881	-76.58155
Cedar Hill Cemetery	40.44898	-76.42344
Christian Burckholder Graveyard	40.28134	-76.51462
Cornwall Cemetery	40.28175	-76.4047
Cornwall United Methodist Church Cemetery	40.2747	-76.41824
Covenant Greenwood Cemetery	40.3566	-76.45973
Dierwechters Union Meeting Cemetery	40.42522	-76.52626
Dohner - Loser Farm Cemetery	40.3058	-76.43419
Dohner Family Graveyard	40.29338	-76.45653
Dohner Field Cemetery	40.28318	-76.37648
Dohner Mennonite Church Cemetery	40.36389	-76.51139
East Hanover Church of God Cemetery	40.41749	-76.62093
Eby - Oberholtzer Graveyard	40.26976	-76.58767
Eby Plot Cemetery	40.32589	-76.37303
Elm View Mennonite Cemetery	40.36313	-76.26724
Evangelical Meeting House Cemetery	40.44675	-76.43017
Evergreen Cemetery	40.32864	-76.51207
Fairland Cemetery	40.34269	-76.49183
Fairview Cemetery	40.31654	-76.36084
Fairview Mennonite Cemetery	40.34386	-76.2975
First Reformed Church Cemetery	40.33678	-76.42711
Friedens Memorial Park	40.37649	-76.33262
Gingrich Mennonite Cemetery	40.30753	-76.47441
Grand View Memorial Park	40.34225	-76.49796
Gravel Hill Cemetery	40.32135	-76.60664
Green Point Cemetery	40.48093	-76.55287
Grove Farm Cemetery	40.43365	-76.43287
Grubbeland Cemetery	40.31979	-76.38756
Hamlin Cemetery	40.45436	-76.37692
Hamlin Mennonite Cemetery	40.4461	-76.37406
Hebron Moravian Cemetery	40.34013	-76.40011
Heidelberg Church of the Brethren Cemetery	40.3295	-76.28936
Heisey - Horst Cemetery	40.28054	-76.36623
Hill Church Cemetery	40.34333	-76.48954
Hokes Meeting House Cemetery	40.3018	-76.42425
Holy Cross Cemetery	40.3578	-76.44721
Holy Savior Cemetery	40.28226	-76.40379
Horst Cemetery	40.31247	-76.28371
Hostetter Cemetery	40.27326	-76.51418
Indiantown Gap National Cemetery	40.42318	-76.55557
Indiantown Gap National Cemetery	40.42132	-76.56924
Jonestown Bible Church Cemetery	40.42009	-76.50049
Jonestown Reformed and Old Cemetery	40.41287	-76.47688
Kauffmans Cemetery	40.34868	-76.52813
Kimmerlings Cemetery	40.37384	-76.39283
Klopps Cemetery	40.44953	-76.37752
Kochenderfers Cemetery	40.36803	-76.42577
Krall's Mennonite Church Cemetery	40.3081	-76.32982
Kreider Cemetery	40.32297	-76.44137
Landis Cemetery	40.29174	-76.29534
Lapps Cemetery	40.31141	-76.31297
Lembergers Cemetery	40.40512	-76.59784
Light's Graveyard	40.41129	-76.41208
Mark Cemetery	40.38207	-76.55431
Meyer Cemetery	40.42905	-76.36852
Meyer Family Cemetery	40.43273	-76.41088
Midway Brethren Cemetery	40.30883	-76.40822
Millbach Cemetery	40.33212	-76.23929
Millbach Meeting House Cemetery	40.31362	-76.24255

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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