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In 1971, the building was restored and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. Van Leer Pleasant Hill Plantation: West Nantmeal Township, Pennsylvania: c. 1780: House Historic stone farmhouse located near Glen Moore in West Nantmeal Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania: Tomlinson-Huddleston House: Langhorne: 1783 House ...
Marostica – The defensive walls around the old town are fully intact. The walls are among the best preserved medieval defensive structures in Italy. Including 3 town gates, 20 towers and two castles, the Castello Superiore and the Castello Inferiore. Marsala; Marta; Massa Martana; Massa Fermana; Matera; Melfi; Messina – see Fortifications ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below may be seen in a map.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Lackawanna 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.
Three of these sites are shared with other states and are credited by the National Park Service as being located in those other states: the Delaware and Hudson Canal (centered in New York but extending into Pennsylvania); the Beginning Point of the U.S. Public Land Survey (on the Ohio–Pennsylvania border); and the Minisink Archeological Site ...
A defensive wall is a fortification usually used to protect a city, town or other settlement from potential aggressors. The walls can range from simple palisades or earthworks to extensive military fortifications such as curtain walls with towers, bastions and gates for access to the city. [1]
The Fort Pitt Block House (sometimes called Bouquet's Blockhouse [6] or Bouquet's Redoubt [7]) is a historic building in Point State Park in the city of Pittsburgh.It was constructed in 1764 as a redoubt of Fort Pitt, making it the oldest extant structure in Western Pennsylvania, [8] as well as the "oldest authenticated structure west of the Allegheny Mountains".
[2]: 2 This location is atypical for the Monongahela culture, whose bearer typically settled in upland areas for defensive purposes. [3] The villagers' houses were similar to those in other settlements; one house in the village is known to have been of a diameter of 7 metres (23 ft), like those in many other Monongahela villages.