Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Myerstown, PA

Myerstown is a borough in Lebanon County in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country — in Pennsylvania Dutch, its name is rendered Moyerschteddel.

German immigrants settled the Myerstown area in the early 1730s, on land that Philadelphia brass-button maker Caspar Wistar had purchased from Thomas Penn in 1735.

The town was laid out by Isaac Meier, who bought his land in 1757–58 and in 1768 laid out streets for a town he first called Tulpehocken Town, after Tulpehocken Creek.

After Meier's death, local residents began calling the place Meier-Town in his honor, a name that eventually became Myerstown.

Isaac Meier's career ended abruptly in 1770, when he was shot and killed in a Myerstown tavern — a killing that remains a local mystery.

Meier's limestone home, the Isaac Meier Homestead, also known as 'The Old Fort' and built around 1750, is one of the oldest buildings in Myerstown and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

Isaac Meier also gave the land for the first schoolhouse in the Myerstown area.

The Union Canal ran through the southern part of Myerstown, tying the young town into Pennsylvania's canal-era trade network.

Myerstown was not incorporated as a borough until February 5, 1912, when one square mile of Jackson Township was carved out to form it.

Albright College was located in Myerstown from 1895 to 1928.