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Lyons was founded as Lyon Station in 1860 when the railroad was extended to that point. [5] The community was named for Charles Lyons, a railroad official. [5] On May 31, 1998, an F3 tornado touched down in Lyons, causing roughly $1,400,000 worth of damage to local homes and properties. The town was closed off for nearly one month to all non ...
Media related to Byers-Lyons House at Wikimedia Commons Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. PA-1158, "Byers-Lyons House, 901 Ridge Street, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA", 8 photos, 1 photo caption page
Berks County (Pennsylvania Dutch: Barricks Kaundi) is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.As of the 2020 census, the county's population was 428,849. [2] The county seat is Reading, the fourth-most populous city in the state. [3]
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Knoebels Amusement Resort (/ k ə ˈ n oʊ b əl z /) is a family-owned and operated amusement park, picnic grove, and campground in Elysburg, Pennsylvania.Opened in 1926, it is the United States's largest free-admission park.
Patrick Lyon (c. 1769, Edinburgh, Scotland – April 15, 1829, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a Scottish-born American blacksmith, mechanic and inventor. After being falsely accused and imprisoned for a 1798 bank robbery, he became a working class hero. [ 1 ]
Walter Lyon (April 27, 1853 – March 21, 1933) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the sixth lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania as a Republican from 1895 to 1899. [ 1 ] Lyon was born in Shaler Township, Pennsylvania .
Lyons was also called "Morey's Corners", and under the latter name the village had its start in 1850 when a plank road was completed to that point. [6] The village was named "Morey's Corners" in honor of it founder Jinks Morey, who also founded what became First Universalist Church of Lyons, Ohio , now the oldest non-residential structure in ...