| Dillerville, Pennsylvania | |
| Settlement Type: | Unincorporated area |
| Pushpin Map: | Pennsylvania#USA |
| Pushpin Label: | Dillerville |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Pennsylvania |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Lancaster |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Population As Of: | 2000 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
| Utc Offset: | -5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
| Coordinates: | 40.0572°N -76.3217°W |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP codes |
| Blank Name: | FIPS code |
| Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Dillerville or Dillersville is an extinct hamlet in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Dillerville was established between the Harrisburg and Manheim pikes, at the intersection of the Lancaster and Reading railroads.[1]
It is sometimes called Dillerville, and sometimes called Dillersville. The USPS database uses the singular spelling for Dillerville Road, as does Mapquest's database. Searching on Google shows the singular spelling to be about six times as popular.
The Dillerville name lives on in the Conrail maintenance yard in Lancaster, a wetlands known as the Dillerville swamp, and in Dillerville Road.According to an 1855 publication, the Pennsylvania Railroad, double-tracked, runs east from Dillerville 69miles to Philadelphia and west to Columbia; at Dillerville, there is a junction with the Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mount Joy and Lancaster Railroad, which extends 36miles to Harrisburg.[2]
An 1864 atlas of Lancaster County shows six property owners in Dillerville: Benjamin Herr, Henry Huber, Hy Holl, Patrick McLaughlin, Samuel Ruth, and Emil Shober.[3] Lue E. Huber, age 42, died in Dillerville on April 16, 1893[4] and Viola Keith, age 1 year, on Mar 1, 1888[5] according to inscriptions on their headstones.
In the Lancaster County Historical Society Vol. 53, No. 3, p. 87[6] a list of teachers for the one-room schoolhouse is given as:
In 1999, students from the Lancaster Academy planted more than 500 wetland plants, including buttonbush, soft-stem bullrush, water iris and silky dogwood in an 8acres wetland near Red Rose Commons, known as the Dillerville Swamp.[7]
Dillersville is located at 40.0572°N -76.3217°W (40.057222,-76.321667), and is 385feet above mean sea level.
