Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:
That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.
By learning about Harmonyville (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.
As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Harmonyville. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.
Neighboring Counties ...
When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.
For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.
So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived: their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.
Harmonyville is located in Chester County .
To see how the shape of Pennsylvania's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries .
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Chester County : New Castle (DE) , Cecil (MD) , Berks , Delaware , Lancaster & Montgomery .
Below are the counties that are near Harmonyville. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Harmonyville:
Chester County (The home county of Harmonyville)
The following are listed by their distance from Harmonyville, with the one closest to Harmonyville listed first.
Knauertown (Less than 2 miles to the south)
Knauertown is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knauertown Coventryville (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Coventryville is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coventryville Bucktown (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
Bucktown is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bucktown Nantmeal Village (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Nantmeal Village is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nantmeal Village Pughtown (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
Pughtown is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pughtown Slonaker (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Slonaker is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slonaker Pottstown Landing (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Pottstown Landing is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pottstown Landing Kenilworth (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
Kenilworth is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kenilworth South Pottstown (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
South Pottstown is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Pottstown Ludwigs Corner (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Ludwigs Corner is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ludwigs Corner Matthews (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
Matthews is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Matthews Loag (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Loag is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loag Elverson (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
Allegheny County
Overbrook (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Overbrook is located in Allegheny County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Overbrook Berks County
The following are listed by their distance from Harmonyville, with the one closest to Harmonyville listed first.
Bally (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Amity Gardens (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Amity Gardens is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amity Gardens Monocacy (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Monocacy is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monocacy Birdsboro (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
Geigertown (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
Geigertown is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Geigertown Kenneys (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
Kenneys is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kenneys Joanna (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
Joanna is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joanna Scarlets Mill (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
Scarlets Mill is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scarlets Mill Ironstone (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
Ironstone is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ironstone Colebrookdale (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
Colebrookdale is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colebrookdale Robeson Crossing (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
Robeson Crossing is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robeson Crossing New Morgan (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
New Morgan is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Morgan Population from the 2020 Census: 76 people
Lorane (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
Lorane is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lorane Bucks County
The following are listed by their distance from Harmonyville, with the one closest to Harmonyville listed first.
Argus (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Argus is located in Bucks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Argus Trumbauersville (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Fairhill (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
Fairhill is located in Bucks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairhill Fairhill has also been known as:
Schnabletown Snoveltown Derstines (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Derstines is located in Bucks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Derstines Milford Square (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Milford Square is located in Bucks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milford Square Sellersville (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Steinsburg (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Steinsburg is located in Bucks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Steinsburg Rich Hill (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
Rich Hill is located in Bucks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rich Hill Selsie Village (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
Selsie Village is located in Bucks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Selsie Village Perkasie (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Quakertown (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Silverdale (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Zionhill (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Zionhill is located in Bucks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zionhill Delaware County
The following are listed by their distance from Harmonyville, with the one closest to Harmonyville listed first.
Edgemont (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
Edgemont is located in Delaware County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edgemont Saint Davids (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
Green Countrie Village (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
Ithan (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
Ithan is located in Delaware County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ithan Radnor Station (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
Radnor Station is located in Delaware County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Radnor Station Radnor (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
Wayne (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
Glen Mills (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
Lima (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
Lima is located in Delaware County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lima Marple (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
Marple is located in Delaware County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marple Montrose Village (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
Montrose Village is located in Delaware County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montrose Village Rosemont (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
Allgates (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
Allgates is located in Delaware County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allgates Indiana County
Ernest (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
Ernest is located in Indiana County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ernest Population from the 2020 Census: 431 people
Lancaster County
The following are listed by their distance from Harmonyville, with the one closest to Harmonyville listed first.
Churchtown (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
Beartown (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
Beartown is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beartown Meadville (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
Meadville is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadville Blue Ball (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
East Earl (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
Terre Hill (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
Red Run (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
Red Run is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Run Weaverland (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
Weaverland is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weaverland New Holland (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
Buyerstown (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
Buyerstown is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buyerstown Christiana (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
Gap (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
Denver (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Lebanon County
The following are listed by their distance from Harmonyville, with the one closest to Harmonyville listed first.
Newmanstown (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Sheridan (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Sheridan is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheridan Stricklerstown (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Stricklerstown is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stricklerstown Richland (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Lehigh County
The following are listed by their distance from Harmonyville, with the one closest to Harmonyville listed first.
Hosensack (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Hosensack is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hosensack Powder Valley (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Powder Valley is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powder Valley Hensingersville (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Hensingersville is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hensingersville Alburtis (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Dillingerville (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Dillingerville is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dillingerville Dillingerville has also been known as:
Dillinger Dillingers Ville Dillingers Dillingersville Stahlers Old Zionsville (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Old Zionsville is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Zionsville Zionsville (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Macungie (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Ancient Oaks (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Ancient Oaks is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ancient Oaks New Smithville (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
New Smithville is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Smithville Emmaus (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Limeport (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Limeport is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Limeport Hynemansville (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Hynemansville is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hynemansville Montgomery County
The following are listed by their distance from Harmonyville, with the one closest to Harmonyville listed first.
Bramcote (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Bramcote is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bramcote Stowe (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
West Pottsgrove (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
West Pottsgrove is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Pottsgrove Pottstown (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
Halfway House (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
Halfway House is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halfway House Pottsgrove (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
Pottsgrove is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pottsgrove Sanatoga (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
Royersford (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Limerick (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
Mingo (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
Mingo is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mingo Fagleysville (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
Fagleysville is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fagleysville Gilbertsville (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
New Hanover (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
Philadelphia County
The following are listed by their distance from Harmonyville, with the one closest to Harmonyville listed first.
Roxborough (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
Roxborough is located in Philadelphia County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roxborough Chestnut Hill (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Chestnut Hill is located in Philadelphia County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chestnut Hill Highland (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Highland is located in Philadelphia County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highland Manayunk (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Manayunk is located in Philadelphia County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manayunk Allen Lane (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Allen Lane is located in Philadelphia County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allen Lane Upsal (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Upsal is located in Philadelphia County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upsal New Castle County (DE)
The following are listed by their distance from Harmonyville, with the one closest to Harmonyville listed first.
Centreville (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
Yorklyn (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
Ashland (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Ashland is located in New Castle County (DE) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashland Hockessin (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Mount Cuba (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Mount Cuba is located in New Castle County (DE) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Cuba Talleyville (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Vintage Village (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Vintage Village is located in New Castle County (DE) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vintage Village Winterthur (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Cokesbury Village (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Cokesbury Village is located in New Castle County (DE) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cokesbury Village Montchanin (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Rockland (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Arden (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Arden is located in New Castle County (DE) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arden Population from the 2020 Census: 436 people
Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Arden <1>
Carpenter (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Carpenter is located in New Castle County (DE) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carpenter
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Harmonyville, see our County-by-County Page for Harmonyville .
Cemeteries Near Harmonyville ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Harmonyville.
This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know . If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.
Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Harmonyville - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Harmonyville covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Harmonyville, with the one closest to Harmonyville listed first.
Shenkel UCC Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Morningside Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Pughtown Baptist Church Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
Second Baptist Church Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
St. Michael's Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
St. Andrew's Episcopal Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Brownback UCC Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brownback UCC Cemetery To give a relative sense of its location, the Brownback UCC Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located less than 2 miles<3> Bucktown . The Brownback UCC Cemetery has also been known as:
Brownback Church Cemetery Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2156995 <2>
Ellis Woods Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
Mt. Zion Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
Pottstown Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
Holy Trinity Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
Pine Grove Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
Continue List (397 more) ...
Springfield Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
Elverson Methodist Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Brower Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Nearby Communities in 1895 ...
We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<4>
While we didn't find Harmonyville in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Harmonyville.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Harmonyville, with the one closest to Harmonyville listed first.
Saint Peters (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Trythall (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Trythall is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trythall Knauertown (Less than 2 miles to the south)
Knauertown is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knauertown Coventryville (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Coventryville is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coventryville Nantmeal Village (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Nantmeal Village is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nantmeal Village Bally (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Pughtown (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
Pughtown is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pughtown Cedarville (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
Cedarville is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedarville East Nantmeal (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
East Nantmeal is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Nantmeal Slonaker (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Slonaker is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slonaker Douglassville (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
Stowe (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Continue List (16 more) ...
Bramcote (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Bramcote is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bramcote Monocacy Station (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Monocacy Station is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monocacy Station Monocacy (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Monocacy is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monocacy
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Harmonyville. See our List of 1890's Communities around Harmonyville .
Newspapers Published in Harmonyville ...
An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) .
To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.
Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 37 newspapers that have been published in the area around Harmonyville.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Harmonyville, there are papers which were published within 9 miles [14.5 km]<3> Extended Newspaper List for Harmonyville.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Harmonyville:
Websites specific to Pennsylvania Pages specific to Chester County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Allegheny County Berks County Bucks County Delaware County Indiana County Lancaster County Lebanon County Lehigh County Montgomery County Philadelphia County New Castle County Cemetery Information and Directories for Pennsylvania Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Harmonyville. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page .
The official website for Chester County: https://www.chesco.org/
The official website for Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: https://www.pa.gov/
Footnotes ...
<1> While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com . Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Harmonyville) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Harmonyville, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.