Official Name: | Frenchville, Pennsylvania |
Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
Pushpin Map: | Pennsylvania |
Pushpin Label: | Frenchville |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Pennsylvania |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Clearfield |
Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
Elevation Ft: | 1401 |
Coordinates: | 41.1047°N -78.22°W |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
Postal Code: | 16836 |
Area Code: | 814 |
Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank Info: | 1175232 |
Frenchville is an unincorporated community in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, United States. The community is located along Pennsylvania Route 879, east-northeast of Clearfield. Frenchville has a post office with the ZIP code 16836, which opened on February 18, 1839.[1] [2] Frenchville was named for the French ancestry of its first settlers.[3] In this community, developed Frenchville French, a unique dialect of the French language that was spoken in the area until the 1960s. The first white burial in the county (1771) was a French seaman, Tohas Auxe, who died en route from Canada to New Orleans. The stone was discovered on a local farm in 1896. The annual Frenchville Picnic is held at the St. Mary's Catholic Church since the 1870s.