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Penn Hills is a township with home rule status in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 41,059 as of the 2020 census. [3]
Northern side of the Monongahela River, 0.5 miles (0.80 km) west of the Rankin Bridge: Allegheny: The only 2 surviving pre-World War II blast furnaces in the Pittsburgh area. 26: Cedarcroft: Cedarcroft
The Abigail Adams Cairn marks the spot where Abigail Adams and her young son, John Quincy Adams, watched the burning of Charlestown on Saturday, June 17, 1775, during the Battle of Bunker Hill. It is located on Penn's Hill, now at the corner of Franklin Street and Viden Road in Quincy, Massachusetts.
The following are approximate tallies of current listings in Pennsylvania on the National Register of Historic Places.These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
Olive Branch Petition - adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 5, 1775, and signed on July 8, in a final attempt to avoid a full-scale war between Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies in America (1775) Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (1775) Common Sense - pamphlet by Thomas Paine (1775-1776)
The Philadelphia campaign (1777–1778) was a British military campaign during the American Revolutionary War designed to gain control of Philadelphia, the Revolutionary-era capital where the Second Continental Congress convened, formed the Continental Army, and appointed George Washington as its commander in 1775, and later authored and unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence the ...
Clint Hill, the U.S. Secret Service agent who leaped atop John Kennedy's limousine to shield the mortally wounded president and long wondered if he could have saved him by acting quicker, has died ...
While some of the Eastern European immigrants were transitory, many more came to Plymouth and stayed, eventually forming a large and important part of the population. By 1890, Plymouth boasted three Roman Catholic churches with Eastern European congregations, St. Mary's (Polish), St. Stephen's (Slovak), and St. Casimir's (Lithuanian).