It is home to over 100 businesses, including a Bayer manufacturing plant, a GAF manufacturing plant, Farmer Boy Ag, Stoneridge Towne Centre and Wengers of Myerstown.

On December 24, 1757, 249 acres (1.01 km2) of land was deeded to Isaac Meier and wife Catherine, who built their house at the Hergelrode site on South College Street.

Meier was fatally shot by an unknown assassin on July 14, 1770, at the Henry Buch House on 40 West Main Street which was a tavern at that time.

The Isaac Meier Homestead was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

[5] According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 0.9 square miles (2.3 km2), all land.

It has a hot-summer humid continental climate (Dfa) and the local hardiness zone is 6b.