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In 1793, they aided in the purchase of 1,600 acres (6 km 2) of land in northeastern Pennsylvania, which was then wilderness. An area of 300 acres (1.2 km 2 ) was laid out as a town plot including a 2-acre (8,100 m 2 ) market square, a grid of broad streets and 413 lots, approximately one-half acre each.
Asylum Township is a township in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. The population was 999 at the 2020 census. [2] The town contains the historic site of French Azilum.
This is intended to be a complete list of the official state historical markers placed in Somerset County, Pennsylvania by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC). The locations of the historical markers, as well as the latitude and longitude coordinates as provided by the PHMC's database, are included below when available.
This is intended to be a complete list of the official state historical markers placed in Franklin County, Pennsylvania by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC). The locations of the historical markers, as well as the latitude and longitude coordinates as provided by the PHMC's database, are included below when available.
In 1793, the French Catholic settlement of French Azilum was founded on the banks of the Susquehanna River near Standing Stone. It was meant as a refuge for French aristocrats fleeing persecution in the French Revolution and slave uprisings in the French colony of Saint-Domingue. [6]
Edward Thornton. The United States through English Spectacles in 1792–1794. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 9, No. 2 (July 1885). Earl L. Bradsher. A Model American Library of 1793. Sewanee Review, Vol. 24, No. 4 (October 1916), pp. 458–475. The Democratic Societies of 1793 and 1794 in Kentucky, Pennsylvania and ...
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Pages in category "1793 establishments in Pennsylvania" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .