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Loretto was founded in 1799 by Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin as the first English-speaking Catholic settlement west of the Allegheny Front. He named it after the town of Loreto, Italy, [7] site of a Catholic place of pilgrimage. Loretto was built adjoining the original settlement founded by Captain Michael McGuire, a Revolutionary War veteran ...
In 1959, Altoona's Chamber of Commerce proposed a similar museum. [7] By 1963, a proposal for a "Pennsyland" railroad museum led representatives of the city's Tourism Bureau to compete against the Strasburg Rail Road in Lancaster County for possession of 28 pieces of decommissioned Pennsylvania Railroad rolling stock.
Demetris Gallitzin was born on December 22, 1770, at The Hague in the Netherlands. His name is a form of Galitzine, the Russian princely family in which he was born.His father, Dimitri Alexeievich Galitzine (1728–1803), Russian ambassador to the Netherlands, was an intimate friend of Voltaire and a follower of Diderot; so, too, for many years was his mother, Countess Adelheid Amalie ...
Allegheny Township is a township in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 2,851 at the 2010 census, [3] up from 2,498 at the 2000 census. The township is the site of the Federal Correctional Institution, Loretto. [4]
The South Bend Chamber Singers present “Christmas at Loretto” at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 17 at the Church of Loretto on the Saint Mary’s College campus.
The welcome centers are normally located the first few exits into a state, e.g. Exit 2 on I-84 in Connecticut entering from New York State.However, some welcome centers, visitors' centers, or service plazas are located some distance away from a state's border, serving certain cities, e.g. Johnson City, Tennessee or Oceanside, California's local Chamber of Commerce, major cities, such as New ...
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Basilica's interior. While the church was substantially designed in the Romanesque Revival style, there are some decorative elements in the Gothic Revival style. [1] These include the altars, that were carved of Carrara marble and imported from Italy, and the altar rail that is composed of Mexican onyx and supported by brass pilasters, capitals and panels.