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Armagh is the oldest community in Indiana County, having been founded in 1792 by eight families led by James and Margaret Jane Graham from Northern Ireland. The community was named after the Irish city and county of Armagh, which was the hometown of some of the settlers. Its first school began in 1799, using a log cabin, and in 1805, it ...
Armagh Township is a township in Mifflin County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The population was 4,019 at the 2020 census. [2] It was named after the city and county of Armagh in Northern Ireland.
John McCreesh, American politician who served in the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1935 to 1958 was born in Armagh County in 1881. [30] Colin Morgan (born 1986), born in County Armagh, actor; Paul Muldoon (born 1951), born in County Armagh, poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize
The county is part of the Southwest Pennsylvania region of the state. [a] Prior to the Revolutionary War, some settlers proposed this as part of a larger, separate colony to be known as Vandalia, but opposing interests and the war intervened. Afterward, claims to the territory by both the states of Virginia and
Nestled against a hill overlooking the Susquehanna River for 250 years, the Accomac Inn and its reported ghostly inhabitants await a new mortal owner to bring it back to life.
Unlike other forms of municipalities in Pennsylvania, boroughs and towns are not classified according to population. Boroughs designated in the table below with a dagger (†) are home rule municipalities and are also found in the List of Pennsylvania municipalities and counties with home rule charters, optional charters, or optional plans. The ...
Ultimately, after just over 200 days, the British government met their demands, and the sisters were transferred to Armagh, Northern Ireland—though it was more drawn out than the series depicts.
A present-day plaque honoring Logan in the city of his birth, in Lurgan, in Northern Ireland. Logan was born in Lurgan, County Armagh in present-day Northern Ireland, on 20 October 1674, to parents Patrick Logan (1640–1700) and Isabella, Lady Hume (1647–1722), who married in early 1671, in Midlothian, Scotland.