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Armagh is the oldest community in Indiana County, having been founded in 1792 by eight families led by James and Margaret Jane Graham from Northern Ireland. The community was named after the Irish city and county of Armagh, which was the hometown of some of the settlers. Its first school began in 1799, using a log cabin, and in 1805, it ...
This is a list of cities and towns along the Susquehanna River and its branches in the United States, in the states of New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. These communities and their surroundings are collectively referred to as the Susquehanna Valley .
Cumberland County, Pennsylvania Franklin County, Pennsylvania Washington County, Maryland: Population centers: In Pennsylvania: Harrisburg, Carlisle, Mechanicsburg, Shippensburg, Chambersburg, Greencastle, Waynesboro In Maryland: Hagerstown: Borders on: Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians (west/north) South Mountain (east/south) Susquehanna River (east)
Three of these sites are shared with other states and are credited by the National Park Service as being located in those other states: the Delaware and Hudson Canal (centered in New York but extending into Pennsylvania); the Beginning Point of the U.S. Public Land Survey (on the Ohio–Pennsylvania border); and the Minisink Archeological Site ...
Armagh Township is a township in Mifflin County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The population was 4,019 at the 2020 census. [2] It was named after the city and county of Armagh in Northern Ireland.
South Mountain is the northern extension of the Blue Ridge Mountain range into Maryland and Pennsylvania.From the Potomac River near Knoxville, Maryland in the south to Dillsburg, Pennsylvania in York County, Pennsylvania in the north, the 70-mile-long (110 km) range separates the Hagerstown and Cumberland valleys from the Piedmont regions of the two states.
Counties constituting the Coal Region of Pennsylvania. The Coal Region is a term used to refer to an area of Northeastern Pennsylvania in the central Appalachian Mountains. The region is home to the largest known deposits of anthracite coal in the world with an estimated a reserve of seven billion tons. Schuylkill; Carbon; Northumberland ...
James Finley was born on February 4, 1725, in County Armagh, Ireland, the son of Michael Finley and Anne daughter of Samuel O'Neill.He immigrated to America at the age of nine, and studied under Samuel Blair at Faggs Manor Academy, [1] in what is now Londonderry Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.