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Two of Pennsylvania's largest public schools were founded in the mid-to-late 19th century. The Pennsylvania State University was founded in 1855, and in 1863 the school became Pennsylvania's land-grant university under the terms of the Morrill Land-Grant Acts.
Many would be shipped to the middle colonies, usually ending up at ports in Philadelphia or the Chesapeake Bay where they found their temporary new home on farms, English Estates, or in quarries. Depending on their violation their sentence could last 5 or 7 years, sometime less if they had a valuable trade such as a blacksmith.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 February 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 ...
The European forts and settlements in the Delaware River Valley, then known as New Sweden, c. 1650 A 1683 map of Philadelphia, which is believed to be the first city map created Philadelphia's seal in 1683 Penn's Treaty with the Indians, a 1772 portrait by Benjamin West now on display above the north door of the United States Capitol rotunda
About 75 soldiers from the territory that became Lycoming County served in the Continental Army, but the West Branch of the Susquehanna valley soon became a front in the war as well. According to tradition, the Fair Play Men made their own Declaration of Independence from Britain at the mouth of Pine Creek on July 4, 1776 , unaware of the ...
Edward Hicks, The Peaceable Kingdom (c. 1834) showing William Penn trading with Native Americans, and the lion sitting down with the lambs. The "Holy Experiment" was an attempt by the Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, to establish a community for themselves and other persecuted religious minorities in what would become the modern state of Pennsylvania. [1]
“It does sound harsh but you have to remember we were a community of drug addicts, recovering drug addicts, and these kind of punishments became rites of passage for many of us,” said Howard Josepher, 76, who in the ’60s was one of the first members of New York City’s Phoenix House, which was a Synanon-type program when it was established.
The site was near several farms, in what later became Stroudsburg. [9] During construction, Captain Ashton annoyed local farmers by sending his men to strip boards from their barns, as there was no nearby sawmill. [11] The quality of the construction was imperfect, as Major William Parsons wrote after he inspected the fort on 12 June, 1756: