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Millersburg Celebrates its Bicentennial
August 27, 2007, Millersburg kicked off its Bicentennial celebration. This week long event was opened with a banquet with guest speaker Jerry Sandusky, former defensive coordinator at Penn State, and concluded September 3rd with a fireworks display along the town’s riverfront area. Events during the week included an historical pageant, “The Future Belongs With Us”, lamp lighting ceremony, 2-1/2 hour parade, business tours, riverfront festival, and a football game matching the state’s 2nd and 4th ranked single A teams (Steel High and Millersburg). An estimated 5000 people came to tailgate and watch Millersburg’s open to the 2007 football season and be part of the weeklong celebration of Millersburg’s 200th birthday. Planning and preparing for this event started almost 4 years ago when Ronald Boyer, President of Alvord-Polk Inc, Edwin Schlegel, David Hawley, and Lorena Lemons, members of the Bicentennial Executive Committee, began meeting to recognize Millersburg’s bicentennial.
Daniel Miller was born in May of 1755, the ninth son of Christopher and Anna Miller. During the spring of 1790, Daniel Miller and his brother, John, were traveling north along the Susquehanna River. When they arrived at the north side of Berry’s Mountain, tradition has it, Daniel was so taken with the beauty of the area where the Wiconisco Creek joined with the Susquehanna River (roughly where Gun & Conservation Club is located today) that he resolved to purchase the land at that location. After contacting William Von Phul from Philadelphia in 1790, the then owner of the land upon which Millersburg is now situated, Daniel received a deed for 979-1/4 acres at the mouth of the Wiconisco Creek on 02 June 1790.
As an adult, Daniel often visited his brother and family in Upper Paxton Township and conceived the idea of building a town. Daniel later built an 18 x 20 foot cabin near the current intersection of Pine and Market streets, bringing his family to Millersburg prior to the August 1790, U.S. Census. Settling in Millersburg in 1805, Daniel built a larger brick house that still stands at the corner of Pine and Walnut streets. This house is the oldest building in Millersburg and is listed on the Pennsylvania Register of Historic Places.
Daniel's plan for the town of Millersburg, consisting of 114-3/4 acres, was filed in Dauphin Count Court in 1807 based on a survey by Peter Williamson. Daniel Miller’s dream of a town on the banks of the Susquehanna River became a reality. During that year, he had the land surveyed and laid-out into lots, reserving land for churches, the town square and a riverside park.
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