The town has a total land area of 0.66 square kilometers. It is situated southwest of Ephrata and northeast Lancaster city. Pennsylvania Route 722 (South State Street) runs through the center of town.
By that year the county was leading every other in the state in the cash value of its farms, in the cash value of farm machinery, in total wages paid to help, in the total value of all products, and in the value, specifically, of live stock, winter wheat, Indian corn, oats and tobacco.
LancasterCounty's distinguished congressman, Thaddeus Stevens, was chairman of the committee that framed the War Tax Law of July 1, 1862 which, among other things, imposed the first tax in our history on incomes.
Lancastercounty doctors had their work cut out for them during the war, serving actively in the field, in the local encampment, and for a while in the emergency hospital set up in the buildings of Franklin and Marshall College.
In 1851, this Church was admitted to the East Pennsylvania Eldership, which is affiliated with the incorporated body known as the "Churches of God in North America," with churches throughout the United States, East Pakistan and India.
At the time in 1871 when the Lancaster Conference passed a resolution in favor of Sunday schools George Weaver was the leader of the opposition to the movement.
Marticville Methodist Church is located in Martic Township, LancasterCounty, on a hill on the edge of the village of Marticville.
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