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Notable non-residential buildings include commercial buildings along East and West Main Street and South Lake Street, the Concord Hotel, the Crescent Hose Company, the Baptist Church, the Presbyterian Church, the Methodist Church, two main buildings of St. Mary's Seminary, the McCord Memorial Library (1916), and the Heard Memorial School.
Northeastern Pennsylvania (N.E.P.A. or Nepa) is a region of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania that includes the Pocono Mountains, the Endless Mountains, and the industrial cities of Scranton (the area's largest city), Wilkes-Barre, Pittston, Hazleton, Nanticoke, and Carbondale.
A Keystone Marker, with an atypical color scheme, in North East. North East is a borough in North East Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States, 14 miles (23 km) northeast of Erie. Its name from its position in the northeastern corner of Erie County, despite being near the extreme northwest of Pennsylvania.
North of the PA 430 junction, PA 89 has an interchange with Interstate 86 (exit 3). 4 miles (6 km) later, PA 89 has an interchange with Interstate 90 (exit 41). PA 89 then enters the borough of North East. There, it serves as the western terminus of PA 426 before crossing US 20. PA 89 then comes to an end at PA 5, near Lake Erie.
Laid out on the farm Klippoortjie in 1887 and proclaimed a town in 1908. It was named after the owner, Commandant Johannes Marthinus Els. Els returned from the war and divided his farm among his remaining troops who had lost everything. It was administered by a health committee from 1908 and by a village council from 1938.
The area has become popular in recent years due to these attractions. Tidioute is home to the Pennsylvania State Championship Fishing Tournament, which is hosted during the last full weekend of September. The main events include the two-day main fishing tournament, a children's fishing derby, parade and carnival.
The township surrounds the borough of North East, a separate municipality. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 42.4 square miles (109.8 km 2), of which 42.2 square miles (109.2 km 2) is land and 0.23 square miles (0.6 km 2), or 0.56%, is water. [3]
Springfield's early history and development was tied to the construction of New York's Erie Canal in the early 19th century and the commerce that resulted from it. A notable example of its past is passage through Springfield for work related to the canal of James Hutchinson Woodworth, a former farmer and teacher from Onondaga County, New York, who was making his way west to Chicago, where he ...