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Harrisburg, PA: Pennsylvania Department of Transportation; Traffic and State Route Map, Allegheny County (PDF) (Map) (2016 ed.). Cartography by PennDOT Bureau of Planning and Research, Geographic Information Division, in cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration.
The Pennsylvania State Route System was established by the Sproul Road Bill passed in 1911. The system took control of over 4,000 miles of road. The system took control of over 4,000 miles of road. The system of roads continued to grow over the next few decades until continual addition of roads faced greater opposition.
The original Pennsylvania Route 3 was the designation for the William Penn Highway running from Hanover Township to Easton.After its decommissioning in 1930, PA 3 was renumbered in several areas to extend active routes, including US 22 from the WV/PA state line to Harrisburg, PA 60 from Robinson Township to Pittsburgh, US 322 from Harrisburg to Hershey, US 422 from Hershey to Wyomissing, US ...
WV 69 at West Virginia state line in Wayne Township: PA 5 in Lake City: 1927: current Currently the longest state route in Pennsylvania. PA 19: 174: 280 Lewistown: Darbytown: 1926: 1928 Renumbered PA 39 to avoid conflict with US 19; now US 522, US 11, US 6, and PA 652. PA 21: 50.751 [15] 81.676
Pennsyltucky is interchangeable with the slang term The "T", because of the shape of Pennsylvania when excluding the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh Metro areas."The T" is used primarily in a political context (e.g., "Winning the T"), and is considered a more politically correct term than "Pennsyltucky" when referring to potential voters without so openly insulting them.
The region includes Allentown, the third-most populous city in Pennsylvania, the neighboring eastern Pennsylvania cities of Bethlehem and Easton, and its more rural suburbs. The region was once a hub for American heavy manufacturing. Its economy is now more diverse, and it has one of the state's fastest growing populations.
Westsylvania was a proposed state of the United States located in what is now West Virginia, southwestern Pennsylvania, and small parts of Kentucky, Maryland, and Virginia. First proposed early in the American Revolution, Westsylvania would have been the fourteenth state in the newly formed United States, had it been recognized.
Pennsylvania is 180 miles (290 km) north to south and 310 miles (500 km) east to west. The total land area is 44,817 square miles (116,080 km 2)—739,200 acres (2,991 km 2) of which are bodies of water. It is the 33rd largest state in the United States. The state's highest point is 3,213 feet (979 m) above sea level at Mount Davis. Its lowest ...