Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Selinsgrove, PA

Selinsgrove is a borough in Snyder County, Pennsylvania — the largest borough in the county — located in the Susquehanna River valley along U.S. Routes 11 and 15, about 45 miles north of Harrisburg.

Selinsgrove was founded in 1787 by Captain Anthony Selin, a soldier who had fought in the American Revolution and laid out the town along the Susquehanna River.

Selinsgrove was first made a borough in 1827, but the charter was surrendered within two years after surrounding Penn Township objected to losing its tax base; the borough was permanently reincorporated on September 24, 1853.

Selinsgrove had 5,713 residents at the 2020 census, up slightly from 5,654 in 2010, and at the 2000 census its 5,383 residents lived in 1,767 households.

Selinsgrove is home to Susquehanna University, a private Lutheran liberal-arts university founded in 1858 as the Missionary Institute of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, which enrolls about 2,000 students on a campus of more than 300 acres.

Two buildings at Susquehanna University — Selinsgrove Hall and Seibert Hall — are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, as is the Governor Simon Snyder Mansion on Market Street.

Simon Snyder, the only person ever to serve three terms as governor of Pennsylvania (1808-1817) and the namesake of Snyder County, made his home in Selinsgrove, and his mansion is believed to have been a stop on the Underground Railroad.

The part of Selinsgrove between Penns Creek and the Susquehanna River is known locally as the Isle of Que, a narrow peninsula about five miles long.

The Selinsgrove area was the scene of the Penns Creek Massacre on October 16, 1755 — the first of a series of deadly French and Indian War raids on Pennsylvania settlements.

A railroad reached Selinsgrove through the Middlecreek Valley in 1871, reinforcing the borough's role as a market and shipping town for the surrounding farm country.