About Lock Haven University

Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania (LHU) is a public academe in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. It is part of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. The main campus consists of 200 acres (81 ha) and the branch campus covers 12.9 acres (5.2 ha). It offers 69 undergraduate programs and 4 graduate programs.

Lock Haven is the county chair of Clinton County, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Located close the confluence of the West Branch Susquehanna River and Bald Eagle Creek, it is the principal city of the Lock Haven Micropolitan Statistical Area, itself allocation of the Williamsport–Lock Haven amass statistical area. At the 2010 census, Lock Haven’s population was 9,772.

Built upon a site long favored by pre-Columbian peoples, Lock Haven began in 1833 as a timber town and a marina for loggers, boatmen, and new travelers upon the river or the West Branch Canal. Resource pedigree and efficient transportation financed much of the city’s addition through the decline of the 19th century. In the 20th century, a light-aircraft factory, a college, and a paper mill, along like many smaller enterprises, drove the economy. Frequent floods, especially in 1972, damaged local industry and led to a high rate of unemployment in the 1980s.

The city has three sites upon the National Register of Historic Places—Memorial Park Site, a significant pre-Columbian archaeological find; Heisey House, a Victorian-era museum; and Water Street District, an area with a blend of 19th- and 20th-century architecture. A levee, completed in 1995, protects the city from extra flooding. While industry remains important to the city, about a third of Lock Haven’s workforce is employed in education, health care, or social services.