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Orwigsburg is located at (40.656567, -76.101882 According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 2.2 square miles (5.7 km 2), all of which is land.. It has a hot-summer humid continental climate (Dfa) and average monthly temperatures range from 27.4°F in January to 72.3°F in July.
Orwigsburg was selected as the county seat because it was deemed to be better suited for industries. [6] Beginning in 1831, support for moving the county seat to Pottsville began gaining traction. In 1846, the state legislature passed an Act that was approved by Governor Francis R. Shunk on March 13, submitting the question to the voters.
Pennsylvania Route 443 (PA 443) is an 80-mile-long (130 km) east–west state highway in the US state of Pennsylvania.The western terminus is at an intersection with State Route 3009 (SR 3009) at North Front Street on the east bank of the Susquehanna River in the community of Fort Hunter in Middle Paxton Township, just west of an interchange with the U.S. Route 22 (US 22)/US 322 freeway.
The village of Richfield has six lakes and the largest one is Friess Lake. [4] [5] In 2008 the Wisconsin Department of Natural resources began trying to improve access to the lake. Grant money was used to make a boat launch on the 15-acre Little Friess Lake. Boaters can use the channel which leads from Little Friess to get to Friess Lake. [6]
Pennsylvania Route 61 (PA 61) is an 81.8-mile-long (131.6 km) state highway that is located in Pennsylvania in the United States. The route is signed north-south despite running in a northwest-southeast direction from U.S. Route 222 Business (US 222 Bus.) in Reading to US 11/US 15/PA 147 in Shamokin Dam.
The company has since expanded to a total of 19 stores in eastern Pennsylvania, including Ashland, Bernville, Berwick, Birdsboro, Elysburg, Fleetwood, Frackville, Hazleton, Lansford, Lykens, McAdoo, Mt. Carmel, Orwigsburg, Schuylkill Haven, Shenandoah, Tamaqua, Womelsdorf, and Yorkville and Pine Grove. The current slogan of Boyer's Food Markets ...
A newspaper article on the school district's founding The Blue Mountain School Board in 1956. In 1954, six school districts, Cressona, Orwigsburg, New Ringgold, Wayne township, East Brunswick township, and North Manheim township joined together to create the "Blue Mountain School System".
Cressona is a borough in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.Formed in 1857 from part of North Manheim Township, it was founded by and named for John Chapman Cresson, a Philadelphia civil engineer and manager of the Schuylkill Navigation Company, president of the Mine Hill and Schuylkill Haven Railroad, and the chief engineer of Fairmount Park in Philadelphia.