In 1765, Thomas Lingle laid out the Town of St. Thomas in 80 plots, including Plot 40 at the edge of the original town plan, and after his death in 1811 citizens began calling it Lingle's Town. At the corner of Linglestown Road and Blue Mountain Parkway, Plot 49 at 5922 Linglestown Road was bought by Jonas Schoenar in 1841 along with Plot 41. A saddler and harness maker, Jonas operated his business, Jonas Schoenar & Son, from 1884 until 1892 in the original building on the property with his son, John H. Schoenar, who was also a harness maker, and they were known for making beautiful saddles and harnesses there. In 1948 the saddle shop was torn down, and the surviving building on the southwest corner of the lot is the structure that still stands, with original logs still visible in its interior walls. About two-tenths of a mile up Blue Mountain Parkway stands the Thomas Lingle homestead farmhouse. Linglestown Road was originally named Market Street by Thomas Lingle, later renamed Main Street, and is now State Route 39; it remained a dirt road until it was paved in 1919, when State Route 39 became Pennsylvania's first slip-formed concrete road. In 2011, construction began on two roundabouts on Linglestown Road to ease and redirect traffic, which then amounted to approximately 16,000 vehicles each day through Linglestown. Across the road at 5921 Linglestown Road on Plot 39 stands the Church of God's first parsonage in America, built circa 1830, and the Church of God Cemetery lies a short distance behind the site, near where the church once stood.