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The Amish settlement in the Kishacoquillas Valley was founded in 1791. It is the third-oldest Amish settlement still in existence. It is the third-oldest Amish settlement still in existence. In 2013 there were 26 Amish church districts, indicating an estimated Amish population of more than 3,000 people.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Blair County, Pennsylvania. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and ...
The majority of the settled portion of the township is in Sinking Valley, between the two arms of the mountain. According to the United States Census Bureau , Tyrone Township has a total area of 41.9 square miles (108.4 km 2 ), of which 41.8 square miles (108.3 km 2 ) is land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km 2 ), or 0.11%, is water.
Brush Mountain is a stratigraphic ridge in the Appalachian Mountains of central Pennsylvania, United States, lying east of the Allegheny Front and west of Tussey Mountain.It runs along the southeast side of the Little Juniata River and forms a horseshoe around Sinking Run, and is the westernmost ridge in its section of the Ridge-and-valley Appalachians.
Sinking Run flows northeast into Sinking Valley and joins the Little Juniata River at the northeastern end of Tyrone Township. Kettle Road is the only through road in Elberta. It leads west through the Kettle Creek water gap in Brush Mountain 4 miles (6 km) to Altoona , while to the northeast it leads 11 miles (18 km) through Sinking Valley to ...
It sits at the southwestern end of Sinking Creek Valley, between two arms of Brush Mountain, rising to the west and the southeast. Kettle Road is the main route through Sickles Corner: it leads northeastward 8 miles (13 km), down the Sinking Creek Valley, to Pennsylvania Route 453 near the Little Juniata River , and southwestward through ...
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 ]
Ephrata (/ ˈ ɛ f r ə t ə / EF-rə-tə; Pennsylvania German: Effridaa) is a borough in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States.It is located 42 miles (68 km) east of Harrisburg and about 60 miles (97 km) west-northwest of Philadelphia and is named after Ephrath, the former name for current-day Bethlehem. [3]