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Malta is an unincorporated community in Lower Mahanoy Township Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located in the USGS quadrangle of Millersburg and has an elevation of 541 feet (165 m) above sea level . [ 1 ]
The towns and cities of New York's North Country were created by the U.S. state of New York as municipalities in order to give residents more direct say over local government. [1] The North Country consists of Clinton County, Essex County, Franklin County, Jefferson County, Lewis County, and St. Lawrence County.
The Alligewe Indians are believed to be the first people to live in this area. [4] After this tribe, there were also the Shawnee, Seneca, Cornplanter and Delaware, also known as Lenni Lenape, tribes. The first white man did not come along until 1662. Arnold Viele, a Dutch trader from Albany, New York was the first white man to enter this ...
The Birth of Pennsylvania, a portrait of William Penn (standing with document in hand), who founded the Province of Pennsylvania in 1681 as a refuge for Quakers after receiving a royal deed to it from King Charles II. The history of Pennsylvania stems back thousands of years when the first indigenous peoples occupied the area of what is now ...
The five Northern Tier counties are home to roughly 180,000 people distributed among many small towns and the countryside. [1] The largest town is Sayre which is located on the left-east bank of the North Branch Susquehanna River and is on Interstate 86 where it dips just south of the New York state line.
Malta is a town in Saratoga County, New York, United States. The town is in the central part of the county and is south of Saratoga Springs . The population was 17,130 as of the 2020 census .
This is a list of dates associated with the prehistoric peopling of the world (first known presence of Homo sapiens). The list is divided into four categories, Middle Paleolithic (before 50,000 years ago), Upper Paleolithic (50,000 to 12,500 years ago), Holocene (12,500 to 500 years ago) and Modern ( Age of Sail and modern exploration).
Thomas Holme's 1687 map of Pennsylvania. "The Welch Tract" appears to the left of center. In the late 17th century, there was significant Welsh immigration to Pennsylvania for religious and cultural reasons. In about 1681, a group of Welsh Quakers met with William Penn to secure a land grant to conduct their affairs in their language.