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Project 70 Land Acquisition and Borrowing Act is a public lands acquisition law enacted in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on 22 June 1964. It permits the state to issue bonds for the purchase of lands for public parks, reservoirs, and other conservation, recreation, and historical preservation purposes, and to coordinate those purchases with local governments.
Rockland Township is a township in Venango County, Pennsylvania, United States.The population was 1,244 at the 2020 census. [2] The township is quite remote, containing one general store (which is now closed), a Methodist church, and a volunteer fire department.
Three of these sites are shared with other states and are credited by the National Park Service as being located in those other states: the Delaware and Hudson Canal (centered in New York but extending into Pennsylvania); the Beginning Point of the U.S. Public Land Survey (on the Ohio–Pennsylvania border); and the Minisink Archeological Site ...
Villa el Paso del Norte at today's Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua and El Paso, Texas [3] [5] Villa de Branciforte, in Santa Cruz County, California [2] Pueblo de Los Ángeles in Los Angeles County, California, founded in 1781; land patented August 4, 1875, to the City of Los Angeles; containing 17,172.37 acres. [2]
Promised Land State Park has a centrally-located picnic and beach area that is near Promised Land Lake in a woodland setting. The facilities include a sandy beach, boat launch, parking area, fresh water, picnic tables, reservable pavilions, garbage disposal containers, charcoal grills, a concession stand, a boat rental, a sand volleyball court ...
According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 2.2 square miles (5.7 km 2), of which 1.3 square miles (3.4 km 2) is land and 0.9 square miles (2.3 km 2) (40.36%) is water. The island, nearly five miles long, is the largest by land area in Pennsylvania.
As of 2018, there were 41.67 miles (67.06 km) of public roads in West Pikeland Township, of which 1.10 miles (1.77 km) were maintained by the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (PTC), 14.13 miles (22.74 km) were maintained by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) and 26.44 miles (42.55 km) were maintained by the township.
New Cumberland is located at (40.229140, -76.873992) [5] and borders the western bank of the Susquehanna River in South Central PennsylvaniaIt is bordered to the south by Yellow Breeches Creek, across which is York County and the Capital City Airport.