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It subsequently declined as families moved on to areas of better farmland, mainly to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and Somerset County, Pennsylvania in Pennsylvania, where they formed the Lancaster Amish Settlement circa 1760 and the Somerset Amish Settlement in 1772. [1] The Amish from Somerset County became the "vanguard of Amish settlers in ...
A Quaker settlement soon grew near the ferry, and in 1697 residents petitioned the Provincial Council to establish the community as the third town in the Pennsylvania Colony. The Bristol Friends Meetinghouse, built in 1711-1714 and partially reconstructed in 1728, is still standing and represents this era of the town's history. Many other ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on National Register of Historic Places in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map. [1]
This is intended to be a complete list of the official state historical markers placed in Somerset 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.
Somerset County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.As of the 2020 census, the population was 74,129. [1] Its county seat is Somerset. [2] The county was created from part of Bedford County on April 17, 1795, and named after the county of Somerset in England.
According to Albrecht Powell, the Pennsylvania Amish has not always been the largest group of U.S. Amish as is commonly thought. The Amish population in the U.S. numbers more than 390,000 and is growing rapidly (around 3-4% per year), due to large family size (seven children on average) and a church-member retention rate of approximately 80%."
Somerset (/ ˈ s ʌ m ər s ɛ t / SUM-ər-set) is a borough in and the county seat of Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States. [3] The population was 6,046 at the 2020 census . [ 2 ] The borough is surrounded by Somerset Township and is located off the Pennsylvania Turnpike ( I-70 and I-76 ).
The Harriman Historic District is located in the northern section of Bristol, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a 17-acre (6.9 ha) residential area with 109 buildings, mostly houses, and the local secondary school. By 1921, production at the shipyard had declined due to a postwar shipbuilding slump.