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A Guidebook to Historic Western Pennsylvania (2d ed.). Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 256– 271. ISBN 978-0-8229-3630-5. Wilkinson, Norman B. (1979). Land policy and speculation in Pennsylvania, 1779-1800: a test of the New Democracy. The Management of public lands in the United States. New York: Arno Press. ISBN 978-0-405-11357-4
I-90 enters Pennsylvania from Ohio in Springfield Township, Erie County, heading east as a four-lane freeway through rural areas of fields and woods. The road has an eastbound rest area before it reaches an interchange with US 6N near West Springfield. The next exit is for Pennsylvania Route 215 (PA 215) near East Springfield.
Tri-States Monument, where New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania meet. In the background, Interstate 84 crosses between NY and PA just north of the monument. The New York–Pennsylvania border is the state line between the U.S. states of New York and Pennsylvania. It has three sections:
I-86 at New York border in North East Township: 1999: current Named the Hopkins-Bowser Highway; [3] portion of its future route maintained by New York State I-90: 46.4: 74.7 I-90 at Ohio border in Springfield Township: I-90 at New York border in North East Township: 1956: current Known as the AMVETS Memorial Highway [3] I-95: 44.25: 71.21
The General Assembly of Pennsylvania commissioned the surveying of land near Presque Isle through an act passed on 18 April 1795. Andrew Ellicott, who famously completed Pierre Charles L'Enfant's survey of Washington, D.C., and helped resolve the boundary between Pennsylvania and New York, arrived to begin the survey in June 1795.
New Castle, which the Beaver and Erie served, was the eastern terminus of Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal, which ran 91 miles (146 km) west to the Ohio and Erie Canal in Ohio. Another east–west canal, the French Creek Feeder, brought additional water into Conneaut Lake at the same time it provided a transportation corridor.
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Except for a section of about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) that dips into Pennsylvania at exit 60 near the New York village of Waverly, the Pennsylvania borough of South Waverly, and the section passing through Greenfield Township from I-90 to the Pennsylvania/New York Border, the rest of I-86 will be in New York.