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The Roaring Run Recreation Area is located one mile upriver (southeast) of Apollo and can be accessed via the Apollo Kiski River Trail. Stone remnants of the Western Division of the Pennsylvania Mainline Canal, that passed through Apollo and operated between 1825 and 1850, can be found along the Roaring Run Trail.
Muncy is a borough in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania.The name Muncy comes from the Munsee Indians who once lived in the area. [5] The population was 2,442 at the 2020 census. [6]
Washington is a city in, and the county seat of, Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States. [4] The population was 13,176 at the time of the 2020 census. [5] Part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area in the southwestern part of the state, the city is home to Washington & Jefferson College and Pony League baseball.
Pine Creek Gorge, sometimes called The Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania, [1] is a 47-mile (76 km) gorge carved into the Allegheny Plateau by Pine Creek in north-central Pennsylvania. It sits in about 160,000 acres (650 km 2 ) of the Tioga State Forest .
Corry is a city in northwestern Pennsylvania, United States.With a population of 6,217 at the 2020 United States Census, [3] it is the second largest city in Erie County. ...
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.
The continued use of "Pennsylvania Dutch" was strengthened by the Pennsylvania Dutch in the 19th century as a way of distinguishing themselves from later (post 1830) waves of German immigrants to the United States, with the Pennsylvania Dutch referring to themselves as Deitsche and to Germans as Deitschlenner (literally "Germany-ers", compare ...
Pottstown is a borough in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States.Pottstown was laid out in 1752–53 and named Pottsgrove in honor of its founder, John Potts.The old name was abandoned at the time of the incorporation as a borough in 1815.