Thomas United Church of Christ), at the east end of the village. In 1811, Lingle died and was buried in the Wenrich's Church cemetery (now St. The county deed recorder's seal and record information are visible on the bottom left corner of the document. The sheepskin document on which Lingle drew the plan for his village still exists, showing in great detail the village's name, each of the plots, their plot numbers, and all street and alley names. Thomas', after the Christian apostle, his namesake.

He called his new settlement 'The Town of St. In 1765, Thomas Lingle purchased a parcel of land in what was then Paxton Township, so as to develop a 90-plot living, working, and studying community for newly-arriving European settlers. It is part of the Harrisburg– Carlisle Metropolitan Statistical Area.

The population was 6,539 at the 2020 census. It was founded and laid out in 1765 by Thomas Lingle. Linglestown is a census-designated place (CDP) in Lower Paxton Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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