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Center County Courthouse in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, September 2006. The original section of the courthouse was built in 1805, with additions and / or remodeling in 1835, 1854–55, 1909, and 1963–64. It is a rectangular brick building on a stone foundation, measuring 135 feet long by 60 feet wide.
Bellefonte Historic District is a national historic district located at Bellefonte, Centre County, Pennsylvania. The district encompasses 296 contributing buildings in the central business district and surrounding residential area of Bellefonte. The oldest building in the district is the Col. James Dunlop House dated to 1795.
Location of Centre County in Pennsylvania. This is a list of the Pennsylvania state historical markers in Centre County. This is intended to be a complete list of the official state historical markers placed in Centre County, Pennsylvania by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC). The locations of the historical markers, as ...
Location of Centre County in Pennsylvania. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Centre County, Pennsylvania. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States. The locations of National Register ...
Bellefonte is a borough in and the county seat of Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is approximately 12 miles northeast of State College and is part of the State College, Pennsylvania metropolitan statistical area. The borough population was 6,187 at the 2010 census. [5] It houses the Centre County Courthouse, located downtown on ...
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The land of the future Centre County was first recorded by James Potter in 1764. Potter reached the top of Nittany Mountain and "seeing the prairies and noble forest beneath him, cried out to his attendant, 'By heavens, Thompson, I have discovered an empire!'" [4] Centre County was created on February 13, 1800 by Act 2092 of the Pennsylvania Legislature from parts of Huntingdon, Lycoming ...
Also available for purchase in the Museum Gift Shop is the 2023 Merced County Historical Society calendar, which features the first 100 years of Merced County high school history (1895-1995).