Lamar, Pennsylvania
Lamar is a census-designated place in Porter Township in southern Clinton County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2010 census the population was 562.
The community is located along Pennsylvania Route 64 in southern Clinton County and is bordered on the west by Nittany in Walker Township, Centre County. PA 64 leads northeast to Exit 173 on Interstate 80 and to Lock Haven, the Clinton County seat, and southwest through Nittany to State College.
It is named for Revolutionary War Major Marien Lamar who was killed in the Battle of Paoli as stated in the "History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania" by John Blair Linn. Major Lamar is believed to have been born near Frederick, Maryland, either in Maryland or nearby Pennsylvania.
