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Nittany Mall is an enclosed regional shopping mall in College Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, serving the State College area.It is located at the intersections of Route 150 and Route 26, one mile off the I-99 corridor.
The Centre Area Transportation Authority (CATA) is a mass transit agency that provides bus transportation within State College, Pennsylvania and the surrounding areas, as well as Pennsylvania State University. In 2023, the system had a ridership of 5,010,600, or about 13,400 per weekday as of the third quarter of 2024.
State College evolved from a village to a town to serve the needs of Pennsylvania State College, which was founded in 1855 as Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania. State College was incorporated as a borough on August 29, 1896, and it has grown with the college, which was renamed The Pennsylvania State University in 1953.
The township has a total area of 47.6 square miles (123.4 km 2), all land.. Ferguson Township is bordered by Halfmoon Township and Patton townships to the northwest, the borough of State College and College Township to the northeast, Harris Township to the east and Huntingdon County [4] to the south.
The land of the future Centre County was first recorded by James Potter in 1764. Potter reached the top of Nittany Mountain and "seeing the prairies and noble forest beneath him, cried out to his attendant, 'By heavens, Thompson, I have discovered an empire!'" [4] Centre County was created on February 13, 1800 by Act 2092 of the Pennsylvania Legislature from parts of Huntingdon, Lycoming ...
The Bellefonte Central Railroad (reporting mark BFC) [1] was a shortline connecting Bellefonte and State College, Pennsylvania.Constructed in the late 19th century to haul local iron ore to furnaces in the Bellefonte region, it later hauled freight traffic to Penn State and lime for steelmaking from local quarries.
State College Regional Airport is home to Civil Air Patrol Nittany Composite Squadron PA-338. [27] The squadron operates a Cessna 182 Skylane registered as N848CP. The United States Army and Air National Guard occasionally fly Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters and Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft into UNV for training missions.
The Omega Bank was a Greek banking service until it was bought by Proton Bank in October 2006. The bank was named after the last letter of the Greek alphabet (see omega ). Omega Bank was one of the earliest banks in Greece to offer e-banking.