Snyder County was carved out of the southern portion of Union County in
1855. Named after Selinsgrove resident and Pennsylvania's only
three-term governor Simon Snyder (1808-1817), the county is unique in
many ways. It is part of the extensive early-nineteenth-century
Pennsylvania Canal System's Susquehanna Division and home to one of the
nation's first coeducational colleges, Susquehanna University. In the
western section of the county, McClure is a town that was created by and
for the convenience of the mid-nineteenth-century Middle Creek Valley
Railroad. Snyder County is a historical tour of these ever-changing
communities through more than two hundred new and far-ranging images,
many never before published, mainly from the outstanding postcard
collection of county resident Ron Nornhold.