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Oldest house in Pennsylvania which has had continuous family residency; possibly the oldest stone house in Pennsylvania Caleb Pusey House: Upland: 1683 House Oldest English-built house in Pennsylvania; only extant building known to have been visited by William Penn: Hop Angel Brauhaus: Philadelphia, Fox Chase: 1683 Restaurant
The Meadowcroft Rockshelter is an archaeological site which is located near Avella in Jefferson Township, Pennsylvania. [4] The site is a rock shelter in a bluff overlooking Cross Creek (a tributary of the Ohio River), and contains evidence that the area may have been continually inhabited for more than 19,000 years.
The Birth of Pennsylvania, a portrait of William Penn (standing with document in hand), who founded the Province of Pennsylvania in 1681 as a refuge for Quakers after receiving a royal deed to it from King Charles II. The history of Pennsylvania stems back thousands of years when the first indigenous peoples occupied the area of what is now ...
The original settlement was the fourth oldest permanent English settlement in the United States. 1634: Trois-Rivières: Quebec: Canada: 1634: Willemstad: Curaçao: Kingdom of the Netherlands: Formerly part of the Netherlands Antilles, now a country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands: 1635 Hingham: Massachusetts United States
7. New York (1624) In 1624 the Dutch West India Co. founded New York City but called it New Amsterdam.Located at the southern tip of Manhattan Island, the settlement was intended to serve as a ...
Pennsylvania is known as the Keystone State for its role in the Revolution, and as one of the oldest settlements during the time, Towamencin Township played a part: the Township had encampments of soldiers, had many citizens that served, and was the retreating place for General Washington and his troops after the Battle of Germantown.
The Historic Moravian Bethlehem Historic District encompasses a complex of the oldest surviving buildings in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.The National Historic Landmark District is a subset of the larger Central Bethlehem Historic District which is specifically focused on the early buildings constructed by the Moravians, who settled the city in the 18th century.
Shelter House in Emmaus, constructed in 1734 by Pennsylvania German settlers, is the oldest continuously occupied building structure in the Lehigh Valley and one of the oldest in Pennsylvania [47] Independence Hall in Philadelphia, where the Declaration of Independence and United States Constitution were adopted in 1776 and 1787–88, respectively