Editing Liverpool, Pennsylvania (section)

==History==
Liverpool was settled in 1808 by the Stailey family, who emigrated from [[Liverpool]], England, for which it was named. Located beside the Susquehanna River in eastern Perry County, the community was surveyed by John Huggins and plotted by Peter Williamson that year. It was originally made up of the land between present-day North Alley and Strawberry Street. Subsequently incorporated on May 4, 1832, it is one of the nine boroughs incorporated in the county. The neighboring community of Northern Liberties was absorbed into Liverpool at the time of its incorporation.<ref name="Jordan 1913 https://archive.org/details/ahistoryjuniata00jordgoog/page/12, 206, 223-224, 255">{{cite book|last=Jordan|first=John Woolf|title=A History of the Juniata Valley and Its People|url=https://archive.org/details/ahistoryjuniata00jordgoog|year=1913|publisher=Lewis Historical Publishing Company|pages=[https://archive.org/details/ahistoryjuniata00jordgoog/page/12, 206, 223-224, 255]}}</ref><ref>Campbell, Pat. "[http://www.liverpool.pa.net/history.html History of the Area]," in "Historic Liverpool." Liverpool, Pennsylvania: Borough of Liverpool and Liverpool Historians, 2008 (retrieved online January 30, 2023).</ref>

As the population grew, so did its business offerings, civic services and industries. Its first businessmen were merchant Thomas Gallagher and hotelier John Huggins.<ref name="Jordan 1913 https://archive.org/details/ahistoryjuniata00jordgoog/page/12, 206, 223-224, 255"/>

In subsequent months and years, a foundry was built, George Thorp opened a distillery, and John Speece erected a tannery operation.<ref name="Jordan 1913 https://archive.org/details/ahistoryjuniata00jordgoog/page/12, 206, 223-224, 255"/>

The community's first schoolhouse was a twenty-five-square-foot log structure.<ref name="Jordan 1913 https://archive.org/details/ahistoryjuniata00jordgoog/page/12, 206, 223-224, 255"/>

In July 1821, John Huggins launched the borough's first newspaper, the ''Mercury'', which was absorbed later that decade by ''The Perry County Democrat''.<ref name="Jordan 1913 https://archive.org/details/ahistoryjuniata00jordgoog/page/12, 206, 223-224, 255"/>

Over the years, a bank, a post office and multiple new businesses and churches were also built.<ref name="Jordan 1913 https://archive.org/details/ahistoryjuniata00jordgoog/page/12, 206, 223-224, 255"/>

By 1829, the Pennsylvania Canal system had completed work on its Main Line Canal, which ran north, parallel to the Susquehanna River for thirty-nine miles, from Duncan's Island in Perry County (now Duncannon) through New Buffalo, Girty's Notch, Montgomery's Ferry, Mount Patrick, Liverpool, and Selinsgrove to Northumberland. Liverpool ultimately became the Mainline Canal's hub, attracting canal boat builders and operators, more hotels to house visitors to the area and more homes for the employees of the businesses that catered to those travelers.<ref>Campbell, "History of the Area," in "Historic Liverpool," Borough of Liverpool and Liverpool Historians.</ref>

Shortly after the Civil War, [[John W. Garrett]] of B. & O. Railroad fame acquired three [[Gunboat|gunboats]] used in the blockade service and refitted them into [[Packet boat|packet boats]], establishing the first regular line service from Baltimore to Liverpool, increasing the town's commercial interests.

In 1910, the population of the borough was five hundred and ninety-six. By 1912, the borough's schools employed four teachers.<ref name="Jordan 1913 https://archive.org/details/ahistoryjuniata00jordgoog/page/12, 206, 223-224, 255"/>