Harlansburg is an unincorporated community located in Scott Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, United States approximately 8 miles (13 km) east of the city of New Castle.

The road was the main stage route, and travel over it, after the country had become partially settled, was very heavy.

He was in that county during the excitement caused by the "whisky insurrection" of 1794, and was in the neighborhood when Gen. John Neville's house was burnt by the insurrectionists He came to what is now called Scott Township, about 1797-8, and settled 400 acres (1.6 km2) under Dr. Peter Mowry, of Pittsburgh, including the site of the village.

While living on his first tract he laid out the town of Harlansburg in 1800, built the first house in the place, and put up a gristmill just east of the village, on the small run which empties into Slippery Rock Creek, some distance below, the mill being built probably previous to the laying out of the town.

The HUNTs afterward removed to a farm in the neighborhood or where the Deans now live, a couple of miles west of the village.

He soon after opened a small general store, in a space of about five by ten feet, where the bar now is in the "Benard House."

John Bently came from Chester county in 1814, and, with his wife and six children - five boys and a girl - located in the village.

In the winter of 1818, William Jack taught a school east of town, in a house which was built by John Martin for a dwelling.

A two-story brick school house was built on the hill, in the western part of the village, in the neighborhood of 1857, and is still standing.

The present firm organized in April, 1887, when David G., and Richard M. Ramsey purchased the general merchandise of J.G.

The Ramsey Brothers have been long known in this part of the county as careful and honest business men, whom it is always safe to patronize.

He was married in 1848 to Catherine Howe, of Butler County and to them ten children were born, seven of whom are living as follows: Samuel H., married, of Harlansburg; Robert F., at home; Fannie Glass, of Harlansburg; John A., James E., William H., and Joseph P., all at home.

Washington Cunningham, the furniture dealer and undertaker, has been in Harlansburg over sixty-five years and has been in the business the most of that time.