Elizabethtown Elizabethtown Borough is a small hisBorough celebrates a toric town of just under wealth of industry 12,000 residents. We and businesses. The celebrate our walkable school district offices, neighborhoods, vibrant high school, middle downtown, and interschool, and two eleactive community. mentary schools are Founded by Barnabas located in the and Elizabeth Hughes, Borough. Our downElizabethtown began town presents a mix as a trading post that of food manufacturgrew into a town with ing, retail, profesplots of land and sional offices, and streets in the form of a eateries. We value grid. The Borough our nearly 40 acres of incorporated in the public open space and year 1827. We are parkland within proud of our ScotsCommunity Park, Irish heritage and sis- Front Row: Council Vice President J. Neil Ketchum, Council President J. Marc Hickory Lane Park, ter-city relationship Hershey (center), Phillip P. Clark and Poplar Street with Letterkenny, in Back Row Left to Right: Dr. C. Dale Treese, Thomas A. Shaud, Jeffrey K. McCloud, Park – all walkable County Donegal, and Mayor Clarence (Chuck) S. Mummert to our residential Ireland. neighborhoods and Our local government is a Council – Manager form of downtown. The Elizabethtown Train Station is one of the government with six elected Borough Council members most active on the Amtrak Keystone Corridor serving representing three wards and a Mayor. The Borough is Harrisburg and Philadelphia. administered professionally by a Borough Manager. We invite you to browse in the shops downtown, grab a Elizabethtown Borough provides full municipal services to bite to eat, play in our parks, and enjoy the scent of chocoour residents including planning and zoning, police serviclate in the air. We bet you will find many reasons to celees, streets, parks, trash & recycling, wastewater, and genbrate Elizabethtown! Visit our website www.etownonline. eral administration and finance. com for more information.
THE ELIZABETHTOWN AREA COMMUNITY WEBSITE
www.etownonline.net
Etown Online is an information service for the Greater Elizabethtown Area, including Conoy, Mount Joy, and West Donegal Townships as well as the Elizabethtown Borough. This premiere site is a cooperative venture of the Greater Elizabethtown community, including government, nonprofit, educational and recreational organizations. Updates are welcome as this will always be a work in progress. They can be made from the online site or by contacting the Elizabethtown Area Chamber of Commerce office at 717-361-7188.
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2016-2017 Elizabethtown Community and Visitors Guide ❖ pg 3
Welcome To Elizabethtown Borough