{"id":5531,"date":"2018-06-26T12:31:14","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T12:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betheltwpleb.org\/?page_id=5531"},"modified":"2018-06-26T12:35:07","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T12:35:07","slug":"fredericksburg-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/betheltwplebanon.gov\/?page_id=5531","title":{"rendered":"Fredericksburg History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fredericksburg<\/strong>\u00a0was laid out in 1761 by Frederick Stump, whose father Christopher Stump had taken up land in the same locality many years earlier. \u00a0The earliest sale of town lots took place in May of 1761-in that month Frederick Stump sold two lots in what would eventually become the town of Fredericksburg. \u00a0One was sold to Andrew Klunk and the other to Michael Hoffman. \u00a0An early name for Fredericksburg was designated as Nassau, but in most reference sources, thereto, including early tax rolls, it has been referred to as Stumpstown, named after it\u2019s founder. \u00a0Later by 1826 when a branch post office was established the town was officially called Stumpstown until 1843 at the request of citizens who petitioned the state legislature to change the name to Fredericksburg.<br \/>\nThis website has been established to detail some of the history of Fredericksburg, in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. All of this is done in preparation for a book that will be printed. The target date for publication is at year end of 2016. It is my desire to bring together pictures and stories of Fredericksburg, Pennsylvania as shared by persons who\u2019s heritage comes from this community. It is the hope that all those researching it\u2019s past would be willing to contribute.<\/p>\n<p>Pictured below is an early Map showing Fredericksburg recorded as Stumpstown in 1816 situated within the present borders of Lebanon County, Pennsylvania shortly after the formation of the county in 1813.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5532\" src=\"https:\/\/betheltwpleb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/1816-Map-Lebanon-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/betheltwplebanon.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/1816-Map-Lebanon-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/betheltwplebanon.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/1816-Map-Lebanon-768x489.jpg 768w, https:\/\/betheltwplebanon.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/1816-Map-Lebanon.jpg 934w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fredericksburg\u00a0was laid out in 1761 by Frederick Stump, whose father Christopher Stump had taken up land in the same locality many years earlier. \u00a0The earliest sale of town lots took place in May of 1761-in that month Frederick Stump sold two lots in what would eventually become the town of Fredericksburg. \u00a0One was sold to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5531","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/betheltwplebanon.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/betheltwplebanon.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/betheltwplebanon.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betheltwplebanon.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betheltwplebanon.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/betheltwplebanon.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5533,"href":"https:\/\/betheltwplebanon.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5531\/revisions\/5533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/betheltwplebanon.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}