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1850: Parts of Bedford County: Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamboat: 14,468: 438 sq mi (1,134 km 2) Greene County: 059: Waynesburg: 1796: Parts of Washington County: Nathanael Greene, Revolutionary War general 34,357: 578 sq mi (1,497 km 2) Huntingdon County: 061: Huntingdon: 1787: Parts of Bedford County: The historic English county of ...
The Land Grant Act of 1850 [1] provided for 3.75 million acres of land to the United States to support railroad projects; by 1857 21 million acres of public lands were used for railroads in the Mississippi River valley, and the stage was set for more substantial Congressional subsidies to future railroads. [2]
The Massachusetts Bay Colony French settlements and forts in the so-called Illinois Country, 1763, which encompassed parts of the modern day states of Illinois, Missouri, Indiana and Kentucky) A 1775 map of the German Coast, a historical region of present-day Louisiana located above New Orleans on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River Vandalia was the name of a proposed British colony ...
The Pennsylvania State University was founded in 1855, and in 1863 the school became Pennsylvania's land-grant university under the terms of the Morrill Land-Grant Acts. Temple University in Philadelphia was founded in 1884 by Russell Conwell , originally as a night school for working-class citizens.
English: "Map of the Philadelphia, Wilmington, & Baltimore Railroad shewing [sic] its connections." Sketch map showing the area between Philadelphia and Baltimore indicating drainage, cities and towns, roads, and railroads. Published in the 1850s.
The Province of Pennsylvania, also known as the Pennsylvania Colony, was a British North American colony founded by William Penn, who received the land through a grant from Charles II of England in 1681. The name Pennsylvania was derived from the Latin for "Penn's Woods", referring to William Penn's father Admiral Sir William Penn.
An enlargeable map of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Names Common name: Pennsylvania. Pronunciation: / ˌ p ɛ n s əl ˈ v eɪ n i ə,-s ɪ l ˈ-/ ⓘ Official name: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (also known as the state of Pennsylvania) Abbreviations and name codes Postal symbol: PA; ISO 3166-2 code: US-PA; Internet second-level domain: .pa ...
Map from The Old New York Frontier by Francis W. Halsey (1901) showing the author's interpretation of the 1768 Fort Stanwix Treaty line. From Towanda, the Pennsylvania line followed the East Branch of the Susquehanna River upstream past Tioga Point (present day Athens, Pennsylvania) and then east to Owego, New York.