Editing Myerstown, Pennsylvania (section)

==History==
[[File:Aug 7 1906 Myerstown PA.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|A Myerstown house in a postcard mailed on August 7, 1906]]
On December 24, 1757, {{convert|249|acre|km2}} of land was deeded to Isaac Meier and wife Catherine, who built their house at the Hergelrode site on South College Street. As early as 1763 he began deeding out lots and planned to make a town which he called Tulpehocken Town, after the [[Tulpehocken Creek (Pennsylvania)|Tulpehocken Creek]], which runs through the borough.

Meier was fatally shot by an unknown assassin on July 14, 1770, at the Henry Buch House on 40 West Main Street which was a tavern at that time.<ref name="History">{{Cite web |title=The History of our Borough |url=https://www.myerstownboro.org/history.html |url-status=deviated |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170504154847/https://www.myerstownboro.org/history.html |archive-date=2017-05-04 |access-date=19 Jun 2023 |website=Myerstownboro.org}}</ref>  After his death the citizens of Tulpehocken Town began to call it Meier's Town after him.

The [[Isaac Meier Homestead]] was added to the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1973.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>