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PA 248 westbound in Palmerton. As of 2020, there were 21.12 miles (33.99 km) of public roads in Palmerton, of which 3.63 miles (5.84 km) were maintained by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) and 17.49 miles (28.15 km) were maintained by the borough. [9] Pennsylvania Route 248 is the only numbered highway passing through ...
The Palmerton Historic District is a national historic district located in Palmerton, Carbon County, Pennsylvania.Bordered roughly by Tomb Street, Avenue A, 8th Street, and Harvard Avenue, it encompasses 1,262 contributing buildings, seven contributing structures (five railroad bridges, one road bridge, and one park gazebo), and four contributing sites (three parks and a cemetery), as well as ...
The following is a list of the 67 counties of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.The city of Philadelphia is coterminous with Philadelphia County, the municipalities having been consolidated in 1854, and all remaining county government functions having been merged into the city after a 1951 referendum.
At the presidential level, Carbon County has also been a bellwether for Pennsylvania until recently with only one miss (the 1960 presidential election) between 1916 presidential election and the 2000 presidential election, and with a margin within 3.5 points of the statewide margin in every election from 1940 to 2000 except 1964 (5.3% more ...
Blue Mountain, Blue Mountain Ridge, or the Blue Mountains of Pennsylvania is a ridge of the Appalachian Mountains in eastern Pennsylvania.Forming the southern and eastern edge of the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians physiographic province in Pennsylvania, Blue Mountain extends 150 miles (240 km) from the Delaware Water Gap on the New Jersey border in the east to Big Gap in Franklin County in ...
As of the 2020 census, the population was 4,547, [2] making it Pennsylvania's least populous county. Its county seat is Emporium. [3] The county was created on March 29, 1860, from parts of Clinton, Elk, McKean, and Potter Counties. It is named for Senator Simon Cameron. The county is part of the North Central Pennsylvania region of the state. [a]
The Pennsylvania Dutch region in south-central Pennsylvania is a favorite for sightseers. The Pennsylvania Dutch, including the Amish, Mennonites, and at least 15 other sects are common in the rural areas around the cities of Lancaster, York, and Harrisburg with smaller populations extending northeast to the Lehigh Valley and up to the Susquehanna Valley.
Blue Mountain Resort is a ski resort located in Palmerton, Pennsylvania, United States, on Blue Mountain, which is owned by BMR Resort, a Denver-based LLC formed by equity firm KSL Capital Partners. KSL Capital Partners is affiliated with KSL Resorts, which took over management of Blue Mountain in May 2021. [1]