Schellsburg, Pennsylvania (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Schellsburg is a borough in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 316 at the 2000 census. Schellsburg was so named after John Schell who settled and founded this community. John Schell's grandfather Michael Schell, the progenitor of this branch of the Schell family in America, first arrived in Philadelphia from the Palatinate by way of Rotterdam in 1727, after which more family members arrived in 1732 and again in 1738. In 1732 when he returned with other members of his family, Michael Schell purchased a substantial tract of land where he settled with his family in the Perkiomen Valley northwest of Philadelphia, an area in Upper Hanover Township later known as East Greenville, in what was then Philadelphia County and became Montgomery County in 1760.