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Ligonier and its surrounding countryside are strongly associated with the Mellon banking family,who still owns considerable tracts of land in the area. The Huntland Downs estate, near Ligonier, comprises some 30,000 acres (100 km 2) of land and is the centerpiece of the Mellon land holdings in the region.
Richard King Mellon (June 19, 1899 – June 3, 1970), [1] commonly known as R.K., was an American financier, general, and philanthropist from Ligonier, Pennsylvania, and part of the Mellon family. Biography
Rolling Rock Club is a private country club located on 25,000 acres (10,000 ha) along U.S. Route 30 about 50 miles (80 km) SE of Pittsburgh, in Laughlintown, Pennsylvania, Ligonier Valley. History [ edit ]
Students culminate their schooling with grades 9 through 12 at the Hazleton Area High School, or Academy of Science building. As of the 2023-24 school year, the Hazleton Area School District had 12,609 students and 751 faculty members for a student–teacher ratio of 16.79, according to National Center for Education Statistics data. [12]
Hazle Township is located in the southern portion of Luzerne County; it surrounds most of Hazleton and West Hazleton. Its numbered routes include I-81, PA 93, PA 309, PA 424, PA 924, and PA 940. Hazleton Regional Airport is situated in the northern half of the township. Most of the community is made up of homes and businesses.
A permanent home came in December 1948 when the college purchased 26 hilltop acres (110,000 m 2) in Sugarloaf Township which, for nearly 25 years, had served as the residential estate of local coal baron Eckley B. Markle. Known as “Highacres,” the site consisted of four buildings that gave the college the space it so desperately needed.
Designed in a variety of popular architectural styles, including Federal and Late Victorian, notable buildings include the E.T. Weller House (1907), Ligonier Valley Railroad Station (1909), United Presbyterian (Pioneer) Church (1876), Covenant Presbyterian Church (1902), Heritage United Methodist Church (1903), and the former Municipal Building ...
The highway is called the Greater Hazleton Chamber Of Commerce Beltway or Arthur Gardner Highway and is a two-lane undivided road that forms a southern bypass of the city of Hazleton in Luzerne County, with an intermediate intersection with PA 309. The section of the road between PA 309 and PA 93 was constructed by 1980 and became State Route ...