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The Health of the Commonwealth: A Brief History of Medicine, Public Health, and Disease in Pennsylvania (2020) online review Higgins, James E. "Keystone of an epidemic: Pennsylvania's urban experience during the 1918–1920 influenza epidemic" (PhD Dissertation, Lehigh University; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2009. 3354767) Covers the major ...
Map of the United States with Pennsylvania highlighted. There are 56 municipalities classified as cities in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. [1] Each city is further classified based on population, with Philadelphia being of the first class, Pittsburgh of the second class, Scranton of the second class A, and the remaining 53 cities being of the third class.
Category: Histories of cities in Pennsylvania. 6 languages. ... History of Lancaster, Pennsylvania (1 C, 14 P) P. History of Philadelphia (23 C, 193 P)
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 2 March 2025. U.S. state This article is about the U.S. state. For other uses, see Pennsylvania (disambiguation). "Penn." redirects here. For other uses, see Penn. State in the United States Pennsylvania Pennsilfaani (Pennsylvania Dutch) State Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Flag Seal Nickname: The Keystone ...
Map of the United States with Pennsylvania highlighted in red. Pennsylvania is a state located in the Northeastern United States.As of the 2020 U.S. census, Pennsylvania is the fifth-most populous state with 13,002,700 inhabitants [1] and the 32nd-largest by land area spanning 44,742.70 square miles (115,883.1 km 2) of land. [2]
Westward expansion of the Pennsylvania Railroad helped Philadelphia keep up with nearby New York City in domestic commerce, as both cities fought for dominance in transporting iron and coal resources from Pennsylvania. Philadelphia's other local railroad was the Reading Railroad, but after a series of bankruptcies, it was taken over by New Yorkers.
The General Assembly of Pennsylvania commissioned the surveying of land near Presque Isle through an act passed on 18 April 1795. Andrew Ellicott, who famously completed Pierre Charles L'Enfant's survey of Washington, D.C., and helped resolve the boundary between Pennsylvania and New York, arrived to begin the survey in June 1795. Initial ...
Thomas Holme (1624–1695) was the first surveyor general of the colonial-era Province of Pennsylvania. He laid out the first and original plan for the city of Philadelphia . Holme was a member of the Valiant Sixty , a group of early leaders and activists in the Religious Society of Friends, known as the Quakers .