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Mazeppa
Populated Place
Mazeppa is located in Pennsylvania
Mazeppa
Mazeppa
Location in Pennsylvania
Country United States
State Pennsylvania
County Union
Elevation
515 ft (157 m)
Zip code
17837
Area code 570
GNIS feature ID 1180591
Mazeppa, Pennsylvania
Entering Mazeppa on QR 1002

Mazeppa is a populated place in Union County, Pennsylvania, named in honor of Hetman Ivan Mazepa.

History

The settlement was originally named Union, and later called Boyertown, after early settlers Samuel Boyer (1804 - 1874) and his wife Sarah. A name change was required by the Post Office in 1886, to eliminate confusion with Boyertown, Berks County. Professor Clement E. Edmunds, being familiar with Lord Byron's poem Mazeppa, proposed the new name.

John Rentschler built a mill in 1788. Its name was later anglicized to Rengler, then became known as Johnson Mill after being purchased by Fred I. Johnson in 1930. It operated on water power until 1945, then on diesel power until operations ceased in 1981. This explains the name of Mazeppa's main street, Johnson Mill Road aka T628 aka Pennsylvania Quadrant Route 1001.

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