Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Pennsylvania Germans and Scotch-Irish were hesitant to accept the idea of free or public schools. They respected education, but associated it with the church, not the state. The enactment of the Free School Act in 1834, entitled "An Act to Establish a General System of Education by Common Schools" was the first great victory for public schools.
Pennsylvania's history of human habitation extends to thousands of years before the foundation of the Province of Pennsylvania. Archaeologists generally believe that the first settlement of the Americas occurred at least 15,000 years ago during the last glacial period , though it is unclear when humans first entered present-day Pennsylvania.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington 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. [1]
Allegheny City was a municipality that existed in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania from 1788 until it was annexed by Pittsburgh in 1907. It was located north across the Allegheny River from downtown Pittsburgh , with its southwest border formed by the Ohio River , and is known today as the North Side .
Derry Township is a township in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 24,796 at the 2020 census, [3] an increase over the figure of 24,679 tabulated in 2010. Hershey, the site of the well-known Hershey's chocolate factory and its affiliated amusement park, is located within the township.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in York 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. [1]
Lebanon (/ ˈ l ɛ b ən ə n / LEB-ən-ən; Pennsylvania German: Lebnen) is a city [4] in and the county seat of Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, United States. [5] The population was 26,814 at the 2020 census. Lebanon was founded by George Steitz in 1740 and was originally named Steitztown. [6]
A map of Pennsylvania and the competing land claims during the colonial era A map of Pennsylvania counties in 1836; at the time, Lackawanna and Wyoming were still part of Luzerne County. The name Wyoming derives from the Lenape Munsee name xwéːwamənk, meaning "at the big river flat." [4]