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Penns Valley is an eroded anticlinal valley of the Pennsylvania ridge and valley geologic region of the Appalachian Mountain range. The valley is located in southern Centre County, Pennsylvania . Along with the Nittany Valley to the north and east, it is part of the larger Nittany Anticlinorium. [ 1 ]
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; GPX (all coordinates) ... Penn-York Valley; Penns Valley; S. Sugar Valley, Pennsylvania;
The Delaware Valley is named for the Delaware River, which flows through the region. It includes the following five Pennsylvania counties: Bucks; Chester; Delaware; Montgomery; Philadelphia; Population (2020): 6.245 million [1] The Delaware Valley is centered around Philadelphia, the largest city in Pennsylvania and sixth-largest city in the ...
An 1836 map of Pennsylvania's counties. The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code, used by the U.S. government to uniquely identify counties, is provided with each entry. FIPS codes are five-digit numbers; for Pennsylvania the codes start with 42 and are completed with the three-digit county code.
Penn Valley is the home of the Penn Valley Women's Club, built by nearby farmers as a schoolhouse and Sunday meetinghouse in 1826–1828. The original club was replaced with a new building in 1876. Although that building was razed around 1926, its remains can be seen today set back from Fairview Road as it winds steeply down to Route 23.
The lands of the future Centre County were first recorded by James Potter in 1764. Potter, having reached the top of Nittany Mountain, and "...seeing the prairies and noble forest beneath him, cried out to his attendant, 'By heavens, Thompson, I have discovered an empire!'" [4] Centre County was created on February 13, 1800, by Act 2092 of the Pennsylvania Legislature from parts of Huntingdon ...
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Pennsylvania (/ ˌ p ɛ n s ɪ l ˈ v eɪ n i ə / ⓘ PEN-sil-VAY-nee-ə, lit. ' Penn's forest country '), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania [b] (Pennsylvania Dutch: Pennsilfaani), [7] is a U.S. state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.