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Greenwood Furnace State Park is a 423-acre (171 ha) Pennsylvania state park in Jackson Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The park is near the historic iron making center of Greenwood Furnace. The park includes the ghost town of Greenwood that grew up around the ironworks, old roads and charcoal hearths.
Pennsylvania Route 305 in Greenwood Furnace State Park, east of McAlevys Fort 40°38′48″N 77°46′41″W / 40.646667°N 77.778056°W / 40.646667; -77.778056 ( Greenwood Jackson Township
Centre Furnace is an iron furnace located in College Township, Centre County, in the Nittany Valley. It was the first charcoal iron furnace built west of the Susquehanna River in 1790-91 by war generals Samuel Miles and John Patton. The furnace was central to the development of the Nittany Valley. The furnace is the namesake of Centre County. [2]
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This is intended to be a complete list of the official state historical markers placed in Huntingdon 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.
Pennsylvania Route 305 crosses the ridge and follows a valley along a fault line at near Greenwood Furnace State Park. Allensville Road also crosses the ridge crest north of Allensville, and Barrville Road passes through a wind gap west of Barrville.
Pennsylvania Furnace is an unincorporated community located in Franklin Township, Huntingdon County and in Ferguson Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States. The community is located along Pennsylvania Route 45 , 9.7 miles (15.6 km) southwest of State College .
Pennsylvania's most populous city is Philadelphia. Pennsylvania was founded in 1681 through a royal land grant to William Penn, the son of the state's namesake. Before that, between 1638 and 1655, a southeast portion of the state was part of New Sweden, a Swedish colony.