Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Summerville, PA

Summerville is a borough in Jefferson County that was settled in 1812 and incorporated on March 15, 1887.

Summerville was named after Summers Baldwin, the first settler in the area, who bought the land from the Holland Land Company; before that it was known as Troy, the site of an earlier Native American village.

In 1820 the Carrier brothers purchased 96 acres at Summerville and rebuilt the grist mills, and the first bridge across Red Bank Creek to the town was built in 1838.

Summerville grew as the principal town of Clover Township, and in 1896, as lumbering slowed, the Carrier brothers opened the area's first commercial coal mines, touching off a prosperous era.

Summerville's population peaked at 1,202 at the 1930 census, but by the 2020 census the borough had 504 residents.

At the 2000 census, Summerville's 525 residents lived in 209 households, 158 of them families.

Two destructive fires in 1912 burned down Summerville's large company store, the Old Osborne Hotel, and other landmarks, and a disastrous flood on July 19, 1996, destroyed many homes and businesses in the borough.

Summerville is the birthplace of baseball player Ed Klepfer.

Christ's Dominion Academy, a private Christian school, is located right in the borough.

Summerville students attend the Brookville Area School District, and the borough sits on PA Route 28 about six miles south of Brookville, the Jefferson County seat.