Aaronsburg is a census-designated place (CDP) in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States.

[4] It is the first town in Pennsylvania (and possibly in the United States) laid out by and named after a Jew.

[6] Its orderly planned and aligned streets were designed that the town might one day be the county seat.

Levy was a prominent Jewish merchant who immigrated to Pennsylvania from Amsterdam sometime between 1760 and 1770 to trade with the native peoples and furnished supplies to the proprietary government.

[6] As a creditor, Levy was a major financier of the Continental Congress during the conflict, with his loans never fully being repaid.

[7] In June 1779, Levy bought a tract of 334 acres in Center County known as the Alexander Grant warranty.

Aaron Levy, a Jewish merchant from Philadelphia, presented members of Salem Lutheran Church with a pewter communion set as a gift.

A short film and a book "The Aaronsburg Story" by Arthur H. Lewis were written about this event, published in 1955.

[10] Aaronsburg is located in eastern Centre County, in the northwest corner of Haines Township.

Pennsylvania Route 45 passes through the town, leading west into Millheim and then on to State College, and east to Lewisburg on the Susquehanna River.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the Aaronsburg CDP has a total area of 0.888 square miles (2.30 km2), all land.