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Mercer is a borough and the county seat of Mercer County in northwestern Pennsylvania, a role it holds partly because it was deliberately located near the geographic center of the county.

The community was named after Brigadier General Hugh Mercer, a Revolutionary War general and close friend of George Washington who died from wounds suffered at the Battle of Princeton.

Mercer was established in 1803, the year Mercer County was organized, and incorporated as a borough in 1814.

Mercer's population was 1,982 at the 2020 census; in 2000 the borough's 2,391 residents lived in 1,020 households.

The Mercer County Courthouse, a red brick and sandstone building with a tall bell and clock tower completed in 1909 after the previous courthouse burned, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

After the courthouse fire, larger Mercer County towns including Sharon and Greenville lobbied to take the county seat away from Mercer, but the borough held onto it.

Mercer's post office holds a New Deal mural, "Clearing the Land," painted in 1940 by Lorin Thompson under the Treasury Department's Section of Fine Arts.

Borough children attend the Mercer Area School District, whose Mercer Area Elementary School and Mercer Area Middle-High School are both located in town.

Mercer is the birthplace of John Bingham, the principal drafter of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and the hometown of Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor.

The borough's motto is "Meet Me In Mercer," a nod to its central crossroads location in the county.