According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough of Wilmore has a total area of 0.33 square miles (0.86 km2), all land.

In the book Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania, author William J. Switala makes reference to Wilmore being a part of the Johnstown-Wilmore-Ebensburg-Burnside route.

"From Johnstown, the fugitive slaves moved northeasterly through the heavily wooded valleys and gullies of the Appalachian Mountains.

Blockson mentions a stop along the route at the hamlet of Wilmore, a small black community located about eight miles south of Ebensburg and near Portage.

Godfrey married Mary Higgins, who was born 1747 in Ireland and died August 28, 1822, in Wilmore; buried St. Michael's Cemetery, Loretto.

Documents go on to say that he then bought the remaining time of indentured servitude of his white wife Mary Higgins.

), this family traveled from Harford Co., Maryland, along the Conococheague Valley (pronounced by the early settlers "Con-eck e-jig"), westward through Cumberland, Maryland, and eventually coming to settle in a place then known as "Jimmy Rhey Place" (1909- John Mangus resides).

Godfrey built the first sawmill in this section of the county on the Little Conemaugh River, below the town of Wilmore, Pennsylvania.

This water-driven sawmill was subsequently washed away and rebuilt about 800 yards east of the present (1910) Pennsylvania Railroad depot.

In 1829, Sylvester Welch's Corps of Engineers was running the lines of the Allegheny Portage Railroad through Summerhill Township, and they came across "… a little village which they marked on their map 'Guinea', an appellation which the Irish laborers who built the road adopted until the matter was made a subject of complaint to Fr.

It was said that Father Gallitzin would chastise any person who would call the town by that opprobrious name and he declared that it should be known as Jefferson..." in honor of our third President.

He was educated, could read and write and was a contractor and the person who built St. Bartholomew's Church- the present-day Gothic structure in Wilmore which replaced the small stone church.