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Standard Axe and Tool Works (1892–1912), Ridgway, PA – Standard completed construction of a new plant in 1892 to produce all types of axes, mining picks, etc. One product was "Black Eagle," marketed as a "chemical process" axe and painted black. In 1894, the plant was destroyed by fire, and rebuilt.
484, 835. 215, 717 (1994) Southeastern Pennsylvania outside Philadelphia, including the Lehigh Valley but excluding all but northernmost Bucks County and the eastern half of Montgomery County. 717 † ‡. 223. South Central Pennsylvania, including Harrisburg, Lancaster, and York. 724. 878.
After the passage of the Residence Act, Philadelphia again served as the capital of the nation from 1790 to 1800 prior to the development of Washington, D.C. as the nation's new capital. Pennsylvania ratified a new state constitution in 1790, which replaced the state's executive council with a governor and a bicameral legislature .
Map location: 40°34′08″N 075°29′54″W / 40.56889°N 75.49833°W / 40.56889; -75.49833 (Bogert Covered Bridge) Historic wooden covered bridge located at Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. It is a 145-foot-long (44 m), Burr Truss bridge, constructed in 1841. It has vertical plank siding and a gable roof.
The history of Pittsburgh began with centuries of Native American civilization in the modern Pittsburgh region, known as Jaödeogë’ in the Seneca language. [1] Eventually, European explorers encountered the strategic confluence where the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers meet to form the Ohio, which leads to the Mississippi River.
November 24, 2015. The Continental Powder Works at French Creek is a historic gunpowder manufacturing complex in East Pikeland Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Constructed on French Creek in early 1776 and intended to supply the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, the mill was the only powder mill and gun factory ...
Coordinates: 40°53′24″N 77°45′37″W. Axemann Village is an unincorporated community in Centre County, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. [1]
The General Assembly of Pennsylvania commissioned the surveying of land near Presque Isle through an act passed on 18 April 1795. Andrew Ellicott, who famously completed Pierre Charles L'Enfant's survey of Washington, D.C., and helped resolve the boundary between Pennsylvania and New York, arrived to begin the survey in June 1795.