Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
State College is located at the junction of Interstate 99/U.S. Route 220 and U.S. Route 322. I-99/US 220 head north to an interchange with Interstate 80 and south towards Altoona. US 322 heads west along with I-99/US 220 and east towards Harrisburg. U.S. Route 322 Business passes east–west through State College on Atherton Street.
An alternative interpretation commonly found among laypeople and scholars alike is that the Dutch in Pennsylvania Dutch is an anglicization or "corruption" (folk-etymological re-interpretation) of the Pennsylvania German autonym deitsch, which in the Pennsylvania German language refers to the Pennsylvania Dutch or Germans in general.
College Heights Historic District is a national historic district located at State College, Centre County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 278 contributing buildings in an almost exclusively middle-class residential area of State College. The district reflects the growth and architecture of State College as an emerging college town.
Pennsylvania Dutch immigrants would spread from this area outwards outside the Pennsylvania borders between the mountains along river valleys into neighboring Maryland (Washington, Frederick, and Carroll counties), West Virginia, New Jersey (Warren and northern Hunterdon counties), Virginia (Shenandoah Valley), and North Carolina. The larger ...
The Centre Area Transportation Authority (CATA) is a mass transit agency that provides bus transportation within State College, Pennsylvania and the surrounding areas, as well as Pennsylvania State University. In 2023, the system had a ridership of 5,010,600, or about 13,400 per weekday as of the third quarter of 2024.
In 1792, Cazenove arranged for the purchase of 1,500,000 acres (6,100 km 2) in northwestern Pennsylvania on behalf of the six houses. [4] [7] In addition to land, the Dutch investors bought American funds, including the South Carolina Funded Debt and the Massachusetts Deposit, and shares in the Pennsylvania Population Company.
East Berlin is a borough in Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,542 at the 2020 census. [3] East Berlin is located in the southern part of Pennsylvania, adjacent to the York County border and 13 miles (21 km) west of York.
According to 2021 US Census data, 3,083,041 [1] Americans self-reported to be of (partial) Dutch ancestry, while 884,857 [2] Americans claimed full Dutch heritage. 2,969,407 Dutch Americans were native born in 2021, while 113,634 Dutch Americans were foreign-born, of which 61.5% was born in Europe and 62,9% entered the United States before 2000.