Frenchville,_Pennsylvania

Frenchville, Pennsylvania

Frenchville, Pennsylvania

Unincorporated community in Pennsylvania, United States

Frenchville is an unincorporated community in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, United States.[1] The community is located along Pennsylvania Route 879, 12.7 miles (20.4 km) east-northeast of Clearfield. Frenchville has a post office with the ZIP code 16836, which opened on February 18, 1839.[2][3] Frenchville was named for the French ancestry of its first settlers.[4] In this community, developed Frenchville French, a unique dialect of the French language that was spoken in the area until the 1960s. The first white burial in the county (1771) was a French seaman, Tohas Auxe, who died en route from Canada to New Orleans. The stone was discovered on a local farm in 1896. The annual Frenchville Picnic is held at the St. Mary's Catholic Church since the 1870s.

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  1. [1]
    "Frenchville". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
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    United States Postal Service. "USPS - Look Up a ZIP Code". Retrieved July 24, 2017.
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    "Postmaster Finder - Post Offices by ZIP Code". United States Postal Service. Archived from the original on October 17, 2020. Retrieved July 24, 2017.
  4. [4]
    Espenshade, Abraham Howry (1925). Pennsylvania Place Names. Evangelical Press. p. 310. ISBN 978-0-8063-0416-8.
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