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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]
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.
[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 valley is bound to the west and north by the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians (Bear Pond Mountains/Blue Mountain), to the east and south by South Mountain, to the northeast by the Susquehanna River at Harrisburg, and to the south by the Potomac River. The portion of the valley residing in Maryland is sometimes referred to as the Hagerstown Valley.
PA 581 connects I-81 and I-83 on a freeway through the western suburbs of Harrisburg. I-81, I-83, and PA 581 form the Capital Beltway that circles Harrisburg. [107] [108] Harrisburg is the location of over a dozen large bridges, many up to a mile long, that cross the Susquehanna River.
Counties constituting the Wyoming Valley Region of Pennsylvania. Wyoming Valley is a region of Northeastern Pennsylvania shaped like a crescent and part of the ridge-and-valley or folded Appalachians, which includes the metropolitan areas of Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. Consisting of the following counties: Luzerne; Lackawanna; Wyoming
Paxton Creek is a 13.9-mile-long (22.4 km) [3] tributary of the Susquehanna River in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania in the United States. Paxton Creek flowing under U.S. Route 22 in Wildwood Park. The Paxton Creek watershed covers an area of 27.4 square miles (71 km 2) and joins the Susquehanna River at South Harrisburg, Harrisburg. [4]
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.