Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania

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Local Information for Elizabethtown, PA

Latitude: 40.153207 -- Longitude: -76.600431

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Elizabethtown is a borough in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 21 miles southeast of Harrisburg. Small factories had existed there at the turn of the century when the population in 1900 was 1,861. In 1910, 1,970 people lived in Elizabethtown. As of the 2000 census, the population of the borough is 11,887. Elizabethtown is almost always referred to by persons living in south-central Pennsylvania as "E-Town." This nickname also follows through to the local college and high school. There are two stories about the origin of the town's name. In one version it is named after Elizabeth Reeby, wife of Michael Reeby who sold the first building lots here in about 1795. Another version has it named after the wife of Captain Barnabas Hughes who purchased a tavern here in 1750. The officially accepted history is that, in 1753, Barnabus Hughes acquired land and laid out a town, naming it for his wife, Elizabeth. The early settlers were primarily Scots-Irish and Pennsylvania Dutch. -- Source: Wikipedia.com