Jersey Shore is a borough in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is upon the West Branch Susquehanna River, 15 miles (24 km) west by south of Williamsport. It is allowance of the Williamsport, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area. In the past, Jersey Shore held farms, railroad shops, cigar factories, a foundry, and a large silk mill. The population was 4,158 at the 2020 census.

Jersey Shore was incorporated as a borough upon March 15, 1826. The history of Jersey Shore begins about 50 years since it was incorporated and upon the opposite bank of the West Branch Susquehanna River in what is now Nippenose Township. Colonel John Henry Antes arrived in 1772 and received a homestead along the banks of Antes Creek. Antes plus built a gristmill and his fortified home, Fort Antes, provided a secure haven for the before settlers against raids conducted by Loyalist and Indian forces during the American Revolution. Settlers who had sought refuge at Fort Antes and had returned to the right bank of the West Branch to milk their cows were accompanied by the first killed subsequently Fort Antes was attacked just prior to the Big Runaway. These pioneers on the north side of the river were counted among the Fair Play Men, a organization of squatters who lived outside the jurisdiction of the colonial and revolutionary governments of Pennsylvania. Many of the settlers did not reward to the Place until after Sullivan’s Expedition had irritated the Lenape and other Indians joined with the British extra west.

Jersey Shore was originally named Waynesburg by the two brothers, Reuben and Jeremiah Manning, who laid out the town circa 1785. Around the period that this was happening, a deal arose on the eastern side of the West Branch Susquehanna River (Nippenose Township), opposite Waynesburg. A rivalry developed amongst the two settlements, and those upon the eastern shore began referring to the settlement on the western shore as the “Jersey Shore,” because the Manning relatives had relocated from New Jersey. The nickname became so complete that in 1826 the indigenous name of Waynesburg was officially by yourself and misused to Jersey Shore.

Jersey Shore’s location on the West Branch Susquehanna River, just downstream from the mouth of Pine Creek made it an ideal location for traders and additional businessmen who outfitted the pioneers who fixed the westernmost portions of the West Branch Susquehanna River Valley and the Pine Creek valley. Thomas Martin was a farmer who sold his fabricate to the people of Jersey Shore and to the men and women who were just passing through. Mr. Martin was noted for his mighty beliefs with suggestion to the prices that he set. For example, if he believed that his potatoes were worth 35 cents a bushel, he would sell them for 35 cents a bushel, no more no less. If his competitors would sell potatoes for 50 cents a bushel, Martin would not lift his price and if others lowered the price to 25 cents per bushel, he would not belittle his price. This firmness and fairness allowed Thomas Martin to rise to a tilt of stress in Jersey Shore and Lycoming County. His reputation for fairness and honesty was passed onto his son Lewis Martin who went upon to abet as a Lycoming County prothonotary and as a deputy U.S. Marshal.