The Borough of Linesville, the only postoflice within the territory of Pine, is a spacious little village situated in the northeastern part of the township. It has a population of between five and six hundred. The Erie and Pittsburg Railroad passes through the village. It was the western terminus of the former Meadville and Linesville Railroad, now a branch of the Pittsburg, Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad.

Linesville was founded by Amos Line, who in 1800 had been a surveyor in the employ of the Pennsylvania Population Company. His home was in Plainfield, New Jersey, but having purchased a tract of land in Pine Township he removed to it in 1818. He paid for his tract four dollars an acre, and built a cabin in the northern part, near the township line. For some years he kept a small store here, but in 1823, his cabin having burned down, he removed to the site of Linesville, where he had previously built a mill. Here he lived for two years, occupying an old log cabin, but in 1825 removed to a frame house he had built beside the mill. It was about the same year that he laid out the village, and several of the lots were soon disposed of. William Burnside and Jesse Gilliland, blacksmiths, were among the first settlers; also Joseph Allen, a carpenter; William Russell and Moses Lord, shoemakers, and Samuel Shattuck, a cooper.

The plot of the village, as recorded in 1838, contained a public square, seventy-five lots, and five streets, Pymatuning and Mercer streets extending north and south, and Erie, Mill and Conneaut crossing them in an east and west direction. Joseph Allen laid out the southern part, which was recorded in 1842. The first tannery was erected by C. S. Stratton about 1837. Two years later, Smith Line, a son of the proprietor, opened the first store. Amos Line was the first postmaster, and the records show that the receipts for the first quarter amounted to twenty-five cents, the postage on one letter. Mr. Line was a Quaker in belief, and worshiped with the Quaker congregation in Conneaut Township. He died in 1853 at the age of seventy-seven, leaving a family still represented in the township.

Jabez Colt, while trying to secure the county seat for the western part of the county, had erected a mill at Linesville in 1800, it being fed by water power by means of a long race. The mill was abandoned soon afterward, and when Mr. Line came to the neighborhood in 1818 it had fallen into total decay. About two years later, however, he erected a new grist mill and afterward added a saw mill. In 1837 he sold the mill to Joseph Boyd, and a year afterward the grist mill was burned. It was rebuilt some years later by the Linesville Industrial Association, and has since then been burned and again rebuilt. An extensive lumbering business was for some time carried on, large quantities being shipped by the canal from Shermansville.

Linesville's first newspaper was founded in 1875 by Britton & McCoy, under the name of the Leader. After various vicissitudes it was converted into the Linesville Herald, under which name it is still published in the form of a semi-weekly, and finds a large circulation. The Linesville Gazette founded after the Leader, had but a brief existence, and was later on published for a few months under the name of the American Citizen.

Amos Line, the first settler, also taught the first school in Linesville, in 1835, in a log building which stood on the south side of Main Street. Joseph Allen was another early teacher. In 1841 the first schoolhouse was built, at the northwest corner of Main Street, in the eastern part of the borough, a district school, consisting of one room. Later on a frame building, also of one room, was erected on West Main Street, on the site of the present schoolhouse, and as the village grew an addition was built. After this a two-story frame building was used for some time, when in 1880 a handsome brick building was erected. In 1896 five schools were in operation, with a school year of eight months. Two hundred and eight scholars were in attendance, although some were from Pine Township, and the average cost for each pupil per month was $2. Almost $2,000 was raised for purposes of public instruction.

The St. Philip's Catholic Church of Linesville worshiped for several years in private houses. In 1870 a church edifice was erected on South Mercer Street and services regularly held. About twenty-five families are included in the congregation. The Methodists of Linesville held meetings for many years in the schoolhouse, at which time John Thayer, John Rea and A. G. Woods were leading members. In 1860 a church building was erected. The congregation, which is small, forms a part of the Linesville circuit.

The first church edifice in Linesville was erected by the Baptist Church in 1852. Back in the early days of the settlement a society of this denomination had flourished, and worshiped in a log cabin about a mile east of Linesville. Services were held here as early as 1818 by Rev. McMillan; and William Ward, James Bishop, Moses Bishop and William Bunnell were among the early members. These services were continued during many years. About 1846 a Baptist Church was organized at Linesville, and was reorganized in 1851 by Rev. E. M. Alden, with eighteen members. Within the next year they had built a large building at a cost of $2,500.