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The Scottish Rite Cathedral in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania is a Masonic building located at 2701 N. Third St. in Harrisburg. It is home to the Valley of Harrisburg Consistory and concordant Scottish Rite Bodies, several Masonic “Blue Lodges”, York Rite bodies, and Masonic Youth groups. [1]
[3] Each Valley has up to four subordinate bodies, and each body confers a set of degrees. The four subordinate bodies are the Lodge of Perfection, which confers degrees 4 through 14, the Council of Princes of Jerusalem, which confers degrees 15 and 16, the Chapter of Rose Croix which confers the 17° and 18° and the consistory which confers ...
The Harrisburg–Carlisle metropolitan statistical area, officially the Harrisburg–Carlisle, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area, and also referred to as the Susquehanna Valley, is defined by the Office of Management and Budget as an area consisting of three counties in South Central Pennsylvania, anchored by the cities of Harrisburg and Carlisle.
On February 14, 1964, the Harrisburg Area Community College (HACC) was founded as the first community college in Pennsylvania in the former Harrisburg Academy. In March 1965, the City of Harrisburg sold the college 157 acres (0.64 km 2 ) in Wildwood Park for a permanent campus.
Pennsylvania is also home to the famous Drake Oil Well in Titusville which helped give rise to the modern oil industry and two brand name motor oils, Quaker State (now owned by Royal Dutch Shell) and Pennzoil. Pennsylvania also has reserves of natural gas from both deeply buried source rocks and coal-bed areas.
Harrisburg's site along the Susquehanna River is thought to have been inhabited by Native Americans as early as 3000 BC. Known to the Native Americans as "Peixtin", or "Paxtang", the area was an important resting place and crossroads for Native American traders with trails leading from the Delaware to the Ohio rivers and from the Potomac to the Upper Susquehanna intersecting there.
Newspaper The Pennsylvania Intelligencer founded; Population: 2,990. [4] 1822 Original Harrisburg State Capitol building completed (started 1818; burned Feb 1897) 1831 Cumberland Valley Railroad completed. 1833 Harrisburg Nail Works opens across the river; 1834 Pennsylvania Canal opens at Harrisburg; Dauphin Deposit Bank established.
Counties in the Delaware Valley region of Pennsylvania. The Delaware Valley is named for the Delaware River, which flows through the region. It includes the following five Pennsylvania counties: Bucks; Chester; Delaware; Montgomery; Philadelphia; Population (2020): 6.245 million [1] The Delaware Valley is centered around Philadelphia, the ...