Matamoras, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
Matamoras is an unincorporated community in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania in the Harrisburg-Carlisle Metropolitan Statistical Area, the latitude is 40.440, and the longitude -76.933, its elevation is 577 feet (176 m).
Matamoras was named after the Mexican city of Matamoros, the scene of a battle in the Mexican–American War.[1]
References
- Notes and Queries, Historical, Biographical and Genealogical, Relating Chiefly to Interior Pennsylvania. Harrisburg Publishing Company. 1895. p. 20.
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