Lucknow, Pennsylvania

Lucknow, Pennsylvania
Unincorporated community
Housing stock on Lucknow Road in Lucknow, PA, looking west toward the Susquehanna River
Coordinates: 40.32214°N 76.89579°W / 40.32214; -76.89579
Country	United States
State	Pennsylvania
County	Dauphin
Township	Susquehanna
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
Area code(s)	717 and 223

Lucknow is an unincorporated American community and neighborhood that is located in Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States, in the Harrisburg-Carlisle area.^[1]

Geography

Lucknow is roughly bounded to the north by Rockville and Blue Ridge Road in upper Susquehanna Township; east to Fargreen Road, west along Linglestown Road straddling the Harrisburg/Susquehanna Township line, south to Lucknow Road, east to the Harrisburg Intermodal Yard along North Sixth Street and west to Front Street. Linglestown Road passes through the heart of the community.

History

The area was named after Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India where the Indian Rebellion of 1857 took place between Indian freedom fighters and the East India Company army. Lucknow takes the name of "Sepoy" which refers to the Indian foot soldiers who fought on the British side in the Relief of Lucknow.^[2][3]

John W. Reily (of soon-to-be prominent Reily family) worked in the iron industry and built and operated the Lucknow Forge for approximately 35 years. The housing stock of rowhouses along Lucknow Road were first built as company homes for those working at the Lucknow Forge. Late in the 19th Century, Reily moved to work on a dairy farm at Fort Hunter and sold the forge to the Pennsylvania Railroad as the site of a rail welding plant next for their expanding rail yard. This new rail yard was known as the Lucknow Yard, though presently remains as the Harrisburg Intermodal Yard.^[4] The Pennsylvania Railroad would also operate a passenger station at Lucknow, approximately 4 miles north of Harrisburg.^[5]

References

1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Lucknow, Pennsylvania
2. Whitbeck, R. H. (1911). "Regional Peculiarities in Place Names". Bulletin of the American Geographical Society. 43 (4): 273–281. doi:10.2307/200434. ISSN 0190-5929. JSTOR 200434.
3. Owens, Jeffrey Alan (1994). "Naming the Plantation: An Analytical Survey from Tensas Parish, Louisiana". Agricultural History. 68 (4): 46–69. ISSN 0002-1482. JSTOR 3744669.
4. History and Comment on Susquehanna Township: Celebrating 50 years as a First Class Township. 2002.
5. The Official Guide of the Railways and Steam Navigation Lines of the United States, Porto Rico, Canada, Mexico and Cuba. National Railway Publication Company. 1901. p. 368.