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Madame Montour's village of Otstonwakin or Ostuagy was an important location during the settlement of what is now Lycoming County.Her village at the mouth of Loyalsock Creek on the West Branch Susquehanna River was a stopping point for the Moravian missionaries who were spreading the gospel throughout the wilderness of Pennsylvania during the 1740s.
Parts of Lycoming County; Attached to Centre County until 1814 and to Lycoming County until 1826 for judicial and elective purposes. McKean was fully organized only in 1826. Thomas McKean, second Governor of Pennsylvania: 39,519: 984 sq mi (2,549 km 2) Mercer County: 085: Mercer: 1800: Parts of Allegheny County: Hugh Mercer, Revolutionary War ...
The Pennsylvania Railroad: Volume I, Building an Empire, 1846–1917. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-4348-2. OCLC 759594295. Davies, Edward J., II. The Anthracite Aristocracy: Leadership and Social Change in the Hard Coal Regions of Northeastern Pennsylvania, 1800–1930 (1985). DiCiccio, Carmen.
This is intended to be a complete list of the official state historical markers placed in Chester 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 provided below when available.
Thomas Holme's 1687 map of Pennsylvania. "The Welch Tract" appears to the left of center. In the late 17th century, there was significant Welsh immigration to Pennsylvania for religious and cultural reasons. In about 1681, a group of Welsh Quakers met with William Penn to secure a land grant to conduct their affairs in their language.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.
Built by Thomas Nevell. John Adams visited the mansion in 1775 and called it "the most elegant seat in Pennsylvania." Cliveden: Philadelphia, Germantown: 1762 House Home of Thomas Pettit Dover Township, York County 1763 House Home of Benjamin Chew and scene of fighting during the Battle of Germantown: Fort Pitt Blockhouse: Pittsburgh: 1764 Defense
A 1770 map by William Scull showed the road bypassing Chambersburg and running directly from here to intersect with the Harrisburg road (built 1744) in the vicinity of Marion, Pennsylvania (north of Back Creek and Muddy Run). [41] A 1775 version of the map by Robert Sayer and J. Bennett showed John Mushet's tavern at this Marion intersection. [32]