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Lemont is a census-designated place in College Township, Centre County, nicknamed 'The End of the Mountain' because it sits at the base of Mount Nittany along Spring Creek.

Lemont lies about two miles from State College and the main campus of Penn State University, in the heart of the region locals call Happy Valley and the Nittany Valley.

Lemont had a population of 2,276 people in 951 households at the 2020 census, almost unchanged from 2,270 in 2010, across an area of about 1.25 square miles under ZIP code 16851.

The first European settlers arrived in the Lemont area in 1789 and built farms, a grist mill, and a sawmill along Spring Creek.

Centre Furnace ironmaster Moses Thompson bought the land in 1870, and the village received its French name in 1885 when it became a station on the Bellefonte Central Railroad.

The John I. Thompson Grain Elevator and Coal Sheds, built in 1885 with insurance money from the burned Lemont Hotel, is the last remaining granary in Pennsylvania, and the Lemont Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

Lemont Elementary School, built in 1938, served village children until Spring Creek Elementary replaced it in 2019; the old building was sold to New Story Schools in 2021, and Lemont students attend Mount Nittany Middle School and State College Area High School.

Lemont's Strawberry Festival on the Village Green has been held since 1982 and drew about 1,000 visitors in 2024.

The Art Alliance of Central Pennsylvania, formed in 1968, is headquartered in Lemont in the former home of the Lemont Band.

The Lemont Ducks baseball team plays in the Centre County Baseball League, Pennsylvania's oldest amateur baseball league, which began in 1932; pitcher Spencer Bivens played for the Ducks before reaching the San Francisco Giants.