Editing Penns Creek, Pennsylvania (section)

==History==
The community was founded in 1806 by Lt. Col. George Weirick (1773–1838), a [[War of 1812]] veteran and the son of Capt. Wilhelm Weirick (1731–1807), a veteran of the [[American Revolutionary War|American Revolution]], and grandson of German immigrant Johann Georg Weyrich (1702–1751). The village was originally called Weirickstown. Weirick served as county commissioner in 1824, [[justice of the peace]] in 1813, and as a member of the [[General Assembly of Pennsylvania]] (1832–1833). He is buried in the Salem Church Cemetery in Snyder County. The village name was later changed to Centreville, and then changed again due to a conflict with another village of the same name in [[Crawford County, Pennsylvania|Crawford County]]. The nearby creek's name was adopted sometime after 1842.  The village was originally part of [[Northumberland County, Pennsylvania|Northumberland County]], then [[Union County, Pennsylvania|Union]].  On March 2, 1855, Penns Creek became part of Snyder County. Snyder County was named for Governor [[Simon Snyder]] of [[Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania|Selinsgrove]]. Buried in the old Sharon Lutheran Churchyard in Selinsgrove, Snyder was very popular and was the only governor of Pennsylvania to serve three terms.