... a quaint, historic village located in the northwest corner of Lancaster County...
Maytown is a small picturesque community located in East Donegal Township. The town and township are situated in the northwestern part of Lancaster County, PA. The town's close proximity to the Susquehanna River, and Old Peter's Great Road, had a very important role in the founding and early history of Maytown.
Today, Maytown offers visitors a unique opportunity to see a town that harkens back to another time. Its architecture ranges from early log structures (25 plus log homes still exist) to 19th century buildings that were built with brick produced here in Maytown.
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A 250 Anniversary History of Maytown, Pennsylvania
1760 - 2010
'Round the Square: A 250th Anniversary History of Maytown, PA 1760-2010" has arrived from the publisher, and many of the originally-ordered and purchased 470 copies have been distributed at the Maytown 250 Event on April 29 through May 2, 2010.
If you ordered and paid for a copy before the event took place, and have not yet received it, the reason is either a) you didn't pick it up at the event headquarters or b) you paid to have it mailed to your home. (Unbeknownst to us, the publisher has a policy of not mailing the books until they have received the last major payment for them. We mailed that check to them on May 4, so you should soon be receiving your copy in the mail. Call the main author, Bob Lescallette, if you don't receive it by May 24, and he will contact the publisher for an explanation and to get a response. His phone number is 717-426-1643.)
During the celebration, about 100 people ordered, and paid for, additional copies in a second shipment. The publisher will only sell us the book by a case, which means 24 copies have to be ordered per lot. We have placed an order for 4 cases to start. (An additional 4 copies are available at a future date, should further orders be placed.)
The price of the book is $53.00, which includes PA sales tax. If you want a book, but have not yet placed an order, please send a check made out to "Maytown Historical Society" to "Maytown Book, PO Box 96, Maytown, PA 17550." Again...do not delay, because the book is selling very well and supplies are limited. (If a second editon would be called for, the books would be much more expensive.)
NO ORDERS WILL BE RECIEVED WITHOUT PAYMENT ACCOMPANYING THEM
Questions may be addressed to Bob Lescallette at the above phone number or via email at cartouche1948@embarqmail.com.
In case you haven't looked at the calendar much, and haven't done the arithmetic, we are fast approaching the centennial of Maytown's biggest party, 1910's Old Home Week, the celebration of our village's founding in 1760.
In 1910, nearly EVERYONE in town (all 800 of us) played a part in organizing, carrying out, and attending the party---as if it were their own---because it was!!! Wouldn't that be great (and a real challenge) to us, the Maytown of 2010, to be similarly involved---and to defy the common wisdom that people today don't care about community anymore---
What do you think?
Towards the end of 2007, or start of 2008, some of us, at the MHS, will try and get the "ball" rolling, by approaching many other groups and individuals in Maytown, to see if they are interested in helping to make the big "family reunion" possible. Concrete plans can, of course, not be finalized until a steering committee is in place to represent the wide variety of persons and groups that make up our town. (Of course, you can express your own support and willingess to help, dear reader, at any time.)