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State College is a borough and home rule municipality in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States.It is a college town, dominated economically, culturally, and demographically by the presence of the University Park campus of The Pennsylvania State University.
This is the smallest state park in Pennsylvania, a day use picnic area on PA 192. Shawnee State Park: Bedford County: 3,983 acres (1,612 ha) 1951: Lake Shawnee: Rental lodge on an island in the lake: Shikellamy State Park: Northumberland and Union Counties: 132 acres (53 ha) 1960: West Branch and North Branch Susquehanna River
Valley Forge Rd. (PA 23) near Owen Dr., at E end of village and Montgomery Co. line Roadside Early Settlement, George Washington, Government & Politics, Government & Politics 18th Century, Iron Village of Valley Forge: September 17, 1960: Valley Forge Rd. (PA 23) near Valley Park Rd., W end of village
ClearWater Conservancy’s Centred Outdoors program will hold guided activities at the State College park.
Bald Eagle State Park is the largest state park in Centre County with 5,900-acre (2,400-hectare). It is on Pennsylvania Route 150 between Milesburg and Lock Haven . Black Moshannon State Park west of State College has a bog with three species of carnivorous plants and 17 orchid varieties.
South Halls offers housing for Schreyer Honors College students in Atherton and Simmons, and in addition offers male, female and co-ed residence halls. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] At one point both McElwain Hall and Simmons Hall both contained a dining complex, but as of May 2011 their dining areas were eliminated to increase residential room space. [ 7 ]
The school's name changed to the Pennsylvania State College in 1874; enrollment fell to 64 undergraduates the following year as the school tried to balance purely agricultural studies with a more classic education. In 1953, the university sought a name change for the town called State College to reflect the new status of the school as a university.
The university's trustees designated the area for a research park in 1989. [1] Initially known as the Penn State Research Park [2] [3] and opened in 1994, its stated mission was to be the "place where collaboration between the University and private sector companies can grow," [4] and to facilitate the transfer of University-based knowledge "to the market place and to foster economic ...