Lavelle is a census-designated place[3] that is located in Butler Township, Schuylkill County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in the United States.

Situated on Pennsylvania Route 901, it was part of the Lavelle-Locustdale CDP for the 2000 census, before the communities were split into the two separate CDPs of Lavelle and Locustdale.

Among those operating collieries in 1862 were John Denison whose Keystone Mines employed more than two hundred men at its facility northeast of the area that would later become the village of Lavelle.

[4] In 1907, Enterline resigned as postmaster in order to devote more time to his business concerns, which now included a growing interest in real estate purchase and sales.

[19][20] Lenker served as the treasurer and Snyder as secretary of the corporation's board of directors, which oversaw the spending of the company's $5,000 in operating capital.

Fanned by high winds, the flames quickly spread to neighboring homes, many of which were made of wood, and then also became a threat to the town's small business district.

[29] During the early 1930s, Cardinal Dennis Joseph Dougherty, a native of Girardville, Pennsylvania who was the Archbishop of Philadelphia, gave his approval for the creation of a new church to serve the more than forty Catholic families who resided in Lavelle.

A permanent structure was then erected in 1935 at a cost of $4,000 on a tract of pasture land that had been owned by dairy farmers, Clement and Elizabeth Scheuren, and was donated to the church that year.

Peter E. Eister, a longtime advocate for improving the village's fire protection capabilities, was one of the company's organizers, and served as its first president.

[31] At the company's March 1997 meeting, members discussed ways to improve the town's fire protection, including the feasibility of developing a formal proposal to secure Works Progress Administration (WPA) funding to install water mains throughout the community.

[25] During the week of October 3, 1954, St. Peter's Lutheran Church celebrated its fiftieth anniversary with a series of special themed services, which began at 7:30 p.m. each evening.

Following completion of the church, the Sunday School, Ladies Aid and Young People's societies were organized and on Oct. 14, the mortgage was burned with services.

Model Eight vehicle manufactured by Front Wheel Auto, which had a 750-gallon water tank and combination pump engine, and was also capable of carrying fire-fighting chemicals, cost $15,200.

[34] On January 12, 1958, members of Lavelle's AMVETS chapter, the Hubler-Wolfgang Post 156 which was chartered in 1951, dedicated the organization's new building on East Strembeck Street.

The project, which was approved by the Butler Township Board of Supervisors, was housed in the rear of the former Lavelle Elementary School building on Main Street.

[39] Following four months of construction during the summer and fall of 1986, the United States Postal Service opened its first post office building in Lavelle.

One of the town's earliest structures, Welker's home was partly made of logs and still had no indoor plumbing; she and her ten siblings were all born there.

[36] On November 28, 1990, the two-story Lavelle Elementary School building, which had been largely vacant since the late 1950s, was razed due to health and safety concerns.

[40] On Wednesday evening, December 28, 2005, congregants of the St. Elizabeth Roman Catholic Church celebrated their chapel's final mass.