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Welcome to Maytown, PA ... a quaint, historic village located in the northwest corner of Lancaster County... Maytown is a small picturesque community located in East Donegal Township. The town and township are situated in the northwestern part of Lancaster County, PA. The town's close proximity to the Susquehanna River, and Old Peter's Great Road, had a very important role in the founding and early history of Maytown. Today, Maytown offers visitors a unique opportunity to see a town that harkens back to another time. Its architecture ranges from early log structures (25 plus log homes still exist) to 19th century buildings that were built with brick produced here in Maytown. 
Maytown to publish new History Book -- ORDERS NEEDED! The Maytown 250 Event organization will publish a special hard-bound pictorial history of Maytown for distribution on May 1, 2010 IF 300 PRE-PAID ORDERS ARE RECEIVED BY JUNE 30, 2009. The cost of the book is $39.75 (and that includes the tax). (If you want your name embossed on the cover, add $6.00 and if you want the book mailed directly to your home, add another $6.50. Otherwise, you can pick it up at the museum in town, the event headquarters, or the Lutheran parsonage and save shipping costs.) Checks should be made out to "Maytown 250 Event" and sent to "Maytown 250 Event, PO Box 96, Maytown, PA 17550. Questions may be addressed to Pastor Bob Lescallette, chair of the book committee, at 426-1643 or via mail at PO Box 473, Maytown, PA 17550. The book will contain well over a hundred photographs and at least 96 pages of text. The exact length of the volume is not yet known because if enough patrons purchase pages in the book and orders in excess of 300 are received, then that will add to the length. Individuals, families, churches, clubs, businesses and other groups in the community who wish to purchase half or whole page "patron pages" in color or black and white should also inquire about the costs and parameters of the opportunity to share your story with posterity. PLEASE DON'T LET THIS OPPORTUNITY PASS YOU AND OUR TOWN BY! SEND YOUR ORDER AND MONEY IN AS SOON AS POSSIBLE BUT BEFORE JUNE 30, 2009. Order forms were placed in the May 20, 2009 issue of the Merchandizer and distributed to all the households in the 17550 and 17547 zip codes. Additional order forms are available at the Maytown Office of the Union National Community Bank, the Maytown post office, and the Lutheran parsonage at 8 West High Street in Maytown. (You need not, however, use an official order form provided you give us the requisite information of your name, address, phone number, and---if you desire the embossing of your name---the exact wording of the embossing. THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT! - Bob Lescallette 
In case you haven't looked at the calendar much, and haven't done the arithmetic, we are fast approaching the centennial of Maytown's biggest party, 1910's Old Home Week, the celebration of our village's founding in 1760. In 1910, nearly EVERYONE in town (all 800 of us) played a part in organizing, carrying out, and attending the party---as if it were their own---because it was!!! Wouldn't that be great (and a real challenge) to us, the Maytown of 2010, to be similarly involved---and to defy the common wisdom that people today don't care about community anymore--- What do you think? Towards the end of 2007, or start of 2008, some of us, at the MHS, will try and get the "ball" rolling, by approaching many other groups and individuals in Maytown, to see if they are interested in helping to make the big "family reunion" possible. Concrete plans can, of course, not be finalized until a steering committee is in place to represent the wide variety of persons and groups that make up our town. (Of course, you can express your own support and willingess to help, dear reader, at any time.)
... more 2010 info here ...
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