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McClure is a borough in southwestern Snyder County, Pennsylvania.

McClure was founded in 1867 as Stuckton: when it became certain that the railroad would be located practically through the center of George Stuck's farm, Stuck staked out part of his farm, laid out lots, and named the new town after himself.

McClure owes its origin to the building of the Sunbury and Lewistown Railroad, which at one time ran through the center of town, and the town was renamed for Alexander Kelly McClure, a prominent 19th-century Pennsylvania politician and journalist.

Although founded in 1867, McClure did not incorporate as a borough until exactly one hundred years later, on January 1, 1967, when its residents voted to incorporate.

The population of McClure was 889 at the 2020 census, down from a peak of 1,070 in 1990.

At the 2010 census, McClure's 941 residents lived in 435 households.

McClure spreads across about 3.7 square miles of land — a large, entirely rural borough with a population density of only about 240 people per square mile.

McClure is famous across central Pennsylvania for the McClure Bean Soup Festival and Fair, billed as Pennsylvania's oldest festival: it grew out of reunions of Civil War veterans who organized the Captain Michael Smith Post of the Grand Army of the Republic in 1883 and served bean soup cooked the way they remembered it from army camp.

Opened to the public in 1891, the September fair still serves bean soup cooked over wood fires in large cast-iron kettles — in 1940, more than 35,000 people consumed upwards of 50 thirty-five-gallon kettles of it.

McClure students attend the Midd-West School District, which serves the borough along with Beavertown and Middleburg, the Snyder County seat.