Mercer County Genealogy

 

Places Sandy Lake Township     

 

 

 

Sandy Lake Township History from the History of Mercer County, 1909

 

Churches in Sandy Lake Township/Sandy Lake Borough area

 

First Presbyterian Church

oldest in Sandy Lake Borough, organized 3 Oct 1835

 

Methodist Episcopal

second oldest church, organized in 1864

 

Disciples Church

organized 14 Apr 1874

 

Cumberland Presbyterian

organized in 1875, built first church building in 1876.

 

United Presbyterian Church of Sandy Lake, formerly the Old Rocky Springs Church, organized in 1811

 

Mt. Hope Methodist Episcopal Church (now Mt. Hope United Methodist Church) 

 

Reformed Presbyterian or Covenanters

 

United Presbyterian  

held meetings in the Reformed Presbyterian Building [1877]

 

Wesleyan Methodist, organized 1873-1874

 

 

Sandy Lake

Township

Formed in 1805

from Sandy Creek Township

Divided into
Worth Township


 

Landowners map of Sandy Lake Township from the 1873 Atlas

 

Census

1840 Census  

1850 Census 

1870 Census

1880 Census - search at familysearch.org.  Select Pennsylvania, then Mercer, then Sandy Lake

 

Towns & Villages

bullet Sandy Lake
bullet Stoneboro
bullet Booher Corners
bullet Wades Corners

 

Cemeteries

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Amasa Stone

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Oakhill Cemetery

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Old Presbyterian Cemetery

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St. Columbkill

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Yankee Hill