Foxburg, PA

Foxburg is a borough in Clarion County, Pennsylvania, United States. The 2020 census counted 181 residents. Foxburg is located along the east bank of the Allegheny River, about 2 miles north of the mouth of the Clarion River. The town takes its name from the Fox family of Philadelphia, former owners of the land upon which the town was built. The short version is that Foxburg carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Foxburg: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Samuel Mickle Fox, along with his brother George and brothers-in-law Joseph Parker Norris and George Roberts, purchased a number of tracts of land in western Pennsylvania from the Commonwealth during the 1790s. Pennsylvania Route 58 passes through the borough, crossing the Allegheny on the new Foxburg Bridge, which opened in 2009. Foxburg is home to nine-hole Foxburg Country Club, founded in 1887.