Editing Mercersburg, Pennsylvania (section)

===Tuscarora School District===
The [[Tuscarora School District]] covers an area of {{convert|201|sqmi|km2}}, stretching north-south from just south of 40 degrees north latitude to the Maryland border and from east of the 78 degree west longitude line to just west of Chambersburg. The district is located within the borders of Franklin County in south-central Pennsylvania. It includes the borough of Mercersburg and Montgomery, Peters, St. Thomas and Warren townships. The school district primarily encompasses a rural agricultural area with a total population of approximately 17,000 people.

The district consists of four K-5 elementary schools (Saint Thomas, Mountain View, Mercersburg, Montgomery), one grades 6-8 middle school (James Buchanan MS) and one grade 9-12 high school ([[James Buchanan High School]]). Tuscarora, the name of the mountain on the western boundary, was named for the [[Tuscarora Nation]], an [[Iroquoian language|Iroquoian]]-speaking tribe. They had lived in this area for a period after migrating from [[the Carolinas]] about 1713 after disastrous warfare. They continued to migrate north to present-day New York, where about 1722 they declared their migration over. They were accepted as the sixth nation of the [[Iroquois League]], or ''[[Haudenosaunee]]'', the powerful confederacy of five nations that occupied much of the territory west of the [[Hudson River]] and into northern Pennsylvania.

Colonists adopted the [[Lenape language]] term for [[Conococheague Creek]], which flows through the district on its way from the Path Valley south to the [[Potomac River]]. The local [[Delaware people]], properly known as Lenape, named it for "clear water".