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An 1836 map of Pennsylvania's counties The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code, used by the U.S. government to uniquely identify counties, is provided with each entry. FIPS codes are five-digit numbers; for Pennsylvania the codes start with 42 and are completed with the three-digit county code.
This is intended to be a complete list of the official state historical markers placed in Perry 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.
1961 Harrisburg Expressway opened: Paxton Street to Hampden Township on the West Shore, via the John Harris Bridge. 1963 Perry County added to the Harrisburg SMSA. 1964 Commonwealth of PA razed the Forster Street Branch YMCA for government expansion; 1966 Penn State opened campus [8] on former Olmstead AFB.
Perry County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.As of the 2020 census, the population was 45,842. [1] The county seat is New Bloomfield. [2] The county was created on March 22, 1820, and was named for Oliver Hazard Perry, a hero of the War of 1812, who had recently died. [3]
Beaufort Farms (/ ˈ b oʊ f ər t / BOH-fərt) is an unincorporated community in northern Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in the Harrisburg–Carlisle Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is a historical farmland settlement and currently developed community of neighborhoods.
Additionally, three more counties are included as part of the Harrisburg–York–Lebanon, PA combined statistical area. [5] Collectively, they have a population of 1,271,801 people, making it the 46th-most-populous combined statistical area (CSA) in the United States, and the 3rd-most-populous CSA in the state of Pennsylvania.
The Harrisburg Historic District is a national historic district which is located in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. [ 1 ]
The county seat is Harrisburg, [3] Pennsylvania's state capital and ninth-most populous city. The county was created on March 4, 1785, from part of Lancaster County and was named after Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France, [4] the first son of King Louis XVI. The county is part of the South Central Pennsylvania region of the state.