LebTown
January 26, 2021 4 min read
One of the few signs to name the area of Shirksville can be found at the Shirksville Mennonite Church at 605 Shirskville Road. (Falk)
Waldeck. Reistville. Goosetown.
Lebanon County is littered with dozens of tiny, out-of-the-way former settlements that are now homes to mere handfuls of local residents. But at their cores, they make up the fabric of, and have helped to define what Lebanon County is all about.
Their peoples. Their heritages. Their stories. They have similarity in their uniqueness.
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They’re way too small to be considered ‘villages’ or Heaven forbid, large enough to support a post office. Technically speaking, they’re considered ‘minor civil divisions’ or ‘populated places.’