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John Albert Thompson (born Jon Torsteinsson Rue; April 30, 1827 – May 15, 1876), nicknamed Snowshoe Thompson, an early resident of the Sierra Nevada of Nevada and California, was a Norwegian-American considered to be the father of California skiing.
Snow Shoe is a borough in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of the State College, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 765 at the 2010 census. According to tradition, Snow Shoe was so named when a pair of snowshoes were found at an Indian village near the present town site. [3]
Snow Shoe Township is a township in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of the State College, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,638 at the 2020 census. [2] According to tradition, Snow Shoe was so named when a pair of snowshoes were found at an Indian village within the township's present ...
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The Bellefonte and Snow Shoe Railroad was a coal-hauling railroad in Centre County, Pennsylvania. Begun in 1859, it came under the control of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1881. Closing of mines in the 1930s resulted in the decline of traffic on the railroad, which was abandoned in 1959.
Snowshoe can refer to Snowshoe, a type of footwear. Snowshoe, Michigan, an unincorporated community; Snow Shoe, Pennsylvania, a borough in Pennsylvania, United States. Snow Shoe Township, Pennsylvania, which surrounds the borough; Snowshoe, West Virginia, a town in West Virginia, United States. Snowshoe Mountain, a ski resort near this town.
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Snowshoe is an unincorporated community in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States, centering on the Snowshoe Mountain ski resort. It is situated in the Allegheny Mountains at a bowl shaped convergence of two high mountain ridges — Cheat and Back Allegheny Mountains — at the head of the Shavers Fork of the Cheat River .