Matamoras, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania

Matamoras is an unincorporated community in Halifax Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania in the Harrisburg-Carlisle Metropolitan Statistical Area in the United States.[1]

Matamoras was named after the Mexican city of Matamoros, the scene of a battle in the Mexican–American War.[2]

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Matamoras, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
  2. Notes and Queries, Historical, Biographical and Genealogical, Relating Chiefly to Interior Pennsylvania. Harrisburg Publishing Company. 1895. p. 20.


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