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Thomas Holme's 1687 map of Pennsylvania. "The Welch Tract" appears to the left of center. In the late 17th century, there was significant Welsh immigration to Pennsylvania for religious and cultural reasons. In about 1681, a group of Welsh Quakers met with William Penn to secure a land grant to conduct their affairs in their language.
The Harmony Historic District encompasses the first early 19th century settlement of the Harmony Society, in what is now Harmony, Butler County, Pennsylvania, USA.It covers an area two blocks wide, extending north from German Road to Conoquenessing Creek between Liberty and Wood Streets.
Kentuck Knob, also known as the Hagan House, is a house in rural Stewart Township near the village of Chalkhill in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States.Designed by the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, it is 45 miles (72 km) southeast of Pittsburgh. [3]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Perry County, Pennsylvania, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.
Digger is a Labrador retriever puppy in Big Barn Farm; Elsie, a black Labrador mix featured in the documentary Street Dogs of South Central; Gus, Dr. Joe Gannon's yellow Labrador retriever on Medical Center; Jet (f.k.a. Bootsy), briefly adopted by the fictional detective genius Nero Wolfe in Rex Stout's 1954 novella Die Like a Dog
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 .
Vials with “smallpox” labels found at a Pennsylvania lab contain the virus used in the vaccine and not the virus that causes the disease, officials said.
Built in 1752, the historic house on this property is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, sandstone and limestone residence with a gambrel roof, which was designed in a Germanic style. The mill was built in 1784, and is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, limestone building with a gable roof. It is attached to the house.