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Linesville is a borough in Crawford County that sits just north of the northeast end of Pymatuning Reservoir, one of the largest man-made lakes in Pennsylvania.

Linesville was settled by Amos Line, who established a mill at the site in 1820, and the village was laid out in 1825 as Line's Mills.

The town is named for the Line family: Amos Line was its surveyor and main proprietor, and his relative William Line was among its founders.

Linesville was incorporated from Pine Township on March 22, 1862, and the community was not known simply as Linesville until 1883.

Linesville's population was 961 at the 2020 census; back in 2000 the borough had 1,155 residents living in 470 households.

Linesville's nickname is "Where the Ducks Walk on the Fish."

At the Linesville Spillway, thousands of oversized carp crowd together to compete for bread thrown by visitors, and ducks famously walk across the backs of the fish to snatch it; the attraction is locally billed as Pennsylvania's second-most popular tourist attraction after the Liberty Bell.

Pymatuning Reservoir was created in the 1930s as a Great Depression-era project, with its dam completed in 1934, and covers more than 17,000 acres along the Ohio line.

Linesville is home to the University of Pittsburgh's Pymatuning Laboratory of Ecology, a field research station on the reservoir.

Linesville was once known as the onion capital of the United States, shipping its onions out on the Erie and Pittsburgh Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad.