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Bird's-eye view of Easton, PA, circa 1900 [2] College Hill is a residential neighborhood in Easton, Pennsylvania. The neighborhood is situated on the hill overlooking downtown Easton which was once known as Mount Lafayette, and before that, Mount Washington. [3] [4] Lafayette College borders the neighborhood on its southwest side.
Built in 1902 for the wealthy silk manufacturer, Herman Simon, an immigrant from Germany, [2] the Herman Simon House is an Indiana limestone dwelling on a granite base in the French Chateau style. The rectangular building measures 24 feet wide and 120 feet deep, and features a four-story, semi-circular bay tower and a projecting porch.
This is a list of Native American archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania.. Historic sites in the United States qualify to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places by passing one or more of four different criteria; Criterion D permits the inclusion of proven and potential archaeological sites. [1]
Easton Historic District is a national historic district located in Easton in Northampton County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 405 contributing buildings in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Easton. Easton Historic District's buildings were primarily built between 1830 and 1910. The oldest dates back to 1752.
Italian prisoners of war working on the Arizona Canal (December 1943) In the United States at the end of World War II, there were prisoner-of-war camps, including 175 Branch Camps serving 511 Area Camps containing over 425,000 prisoners of war (mostly German). The camps were located all over the US, but were mostly in the South, due to the higher expense of heating the barracks in colder areas ...
With his parents and siblings, Andrew, James and Pasqualina, he immigrated to the United States in April 1908, [2] settling in Buffalo, New York. [3] In 1921, he moved in Pittston, Pennsylvania , [ 3 ] working as a coal miner ; Sciandra became an enforcer and bootlegger for Bufalino crime family boss Santo Volpe .
Original flag of the Army of the Two Sicilies. The Army of the Two Sicilies, also known as the Royal Army of His Majesty the King of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (Reale esercito di Sua Maestà il Re del Regno delle Due Sicilie), the Bourbon Army (Esercito Borbonico) or the Neapolitan Army (Esercito Napoletano), was the land forces of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, whose armed forces also ...
The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (Italian: Regno delle Due Sicilie) [b] was a kingdom in Southern Italy from 1816 to 1861 under the control of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, a cadet branch of the Bourbons. [3]