Township Officials

Webmaster:
Jesse Shutt
Supervisior/Chairperson:
Russell Miller
Supervisior/Vice-Chairperson:
Ira Kulp, Jr.
Supervisior:
Bruce Harman
Roadmaster:
Russell Miller
Township Manager:
Cathy Gusler
Township Secretary/Treasurer:
Cathy Gusler
Township Tax Collector:
Dale Faust
Township Auditors:
Susan Buffington
Michael Reedich
Elaine Steigman
Township Engineer:
Harold Light
Township Sewage Enforcement Officer:
Michael Brown
Township Solicitor:
Linus Fenicle
Township Emergency Management Coordinator:
Don Shutt, Jr.
Township Deputy Emergency Management Coordinator:
Jesse Shutt

Links Section

	DAUPHIN COUNTY
	FISHERVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY
	HALIFAX AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT
	HALIFAX AREA AMBULANCE AND RESCUE ASSOCIATION
	HARMAN STOVES
	UPPER DAUPHIN COUNTY EMERGENCY SERVICES (MEDIC 6)

Jackson Township is situated in rural Upper Dauphin County. There is some State Game Lands located in the township. State Route 225 runs through a good portion of the township.

One of the major employers in the township is the Harman Stove Company. We have a elementary school, the Enders-Fisherville School located in the township. The township is a part of the Halifax Area School District.

The township is protected by the Fisherville Volunteer Fire Company as it's fire company. The township is also served by the Halifax Area Ambulance and Rescue Association as it's BLS service and Medic 6 as it's ALS service. The Pennsylvania State Police provide police coverage to the township.

If you would like to find out more information about the above Emergency Service Companies, or business, please visit our links section.

ATTENTION ALL RESIDENTS!!
If you are disabeed in any way (i.e. blind, deaf, or are wheel chair bound), please foward your address and contact information to the township EMA coordinators so that you can be put on the list to be contacted in case of a township wide emergency, or evacuation is needed so that you can be assisted.

ATTENTION ALL RESIDENTS!!
During Icy and Snowy conditions, the township is requesting that all residents in devleopments please park their vehicles in their driveways during these conditons. Doing so makes it easier for the township to plow and cinder the entire road rather then dodging parked cars.

Site last updated on 11/14/09

On the 23rd of August, 1828, an order was issued by the Court of Quarter Sessions to three commissioners to view and report upon the propriety of dividing the township of Halifax according to the prayer of inhabitants to the east end of said township, asking for a division, and that the new township, might be called Jackson, previsouly presented to said court. The commissioners reported that in their opinions a division of said township was necessary and proper, and that they had run and marked a division line as follows, to wit:

"Beginning at a chestnut-oak on the top of Peter's Mountain, in Winn's Gap, on the line dividing Halifax and Middle Paxton townships; thence across Powell's and Armstrongs Valleys, north 3-1/2 degress west 6 miles and 280 perches to a hickory on the line between Upper Paxtang and Halifax townships, on Berry's Mountain, at a small curve in said mountain about three-quarters of a mile west of Woodside's Gap."

This report was confirmed by the court at November sessions, 1828. It was thus named for the then President of the United States, Gen. Andrew Jackson, and as thus established was diminished by the erection of Jefferson in 1842. The early settlers in the township were the Hoffmans, Enders, Fishers, Millers, Snyders, Fetterhoffs, Werts, Shotts and others, many of whose descendants remain in the locality. Armstrong's Creek rised in this township, flowing southwest, empties into the Susquehanna above Halifax.

FISHERVILLE
Fisherville was laid out in 1854 by Adam Fisher, now deceased, then an extensive land-holder. It is now a flourishing little village, containing a neat frame school building, stores, etc. The Methodist Episcopal Church edifice was erected in 1859, and is supplied by the Halifax Circuit. Of the United Brethren congregation, Rev. Jacob Funk is pastor, those formerly being the same as at Jacob's Church in Wayne township, and St. John's in Mifflin township. The Evangelical Lutheran Church was erected many years ago. It is a one-story brick building.

JACKSONVILLE
Jacksonville was laid out about 1825 by George Enders and Joseph P. Lyter, most of the houses being on the lots owned by the former. It was named in honor or Ex-President Jackson. Joseph Bowman built the first house. William Enders had the first store. The first blacksmith was Joseph P. Lyter; the first physician was Dr. McGuire. The post-office was established under President Pierce's administration in 1854. The present post master is J.F. Helt, and the first one was William Enders, after whom the office was called "Enders Post Office." There are two churches, the Lutheran and Reformed (Star of Bethlehem), a neat frame edifice erected in 1875, and the United Brethren built in 1873. Rev. Isaac Erhart is pastor of the former, and Rev. Jacon Funk of the latter.

East and northeast of Jacksonville are the following churches: Stearn's, Miller's (Reformed, of which Rev. A.S. Stauffer is pastor), and the United Brethren, at Deitrich's.