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Northeast of Carlisle in Middlesex Township, US 11 has interchanges with the Pennsylvania Turnpike , and then I-81 roughly one mile (1.6 km) later. The stretch of US 11 between I-76 and I-81 is known as the "Miracle Mile" since it contains plenty of traveler services including restaurants, gas stations, lodging, truck stops, and shops. [1]
Harriet Augusta Byram Hussey – wife of C.C. Hussey, elected as the club's only female member following her husband's death in 1884 [11] Lewis Irwin; Philander Chase Knox – American lawyer and politician who served as US Attorney General, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, and, lastly, as Secretary of State from 1909 to 1913
Kocher Park, with Fishing Creek in the background. The Fishing Creek Watershed Association plans to open a public section of the creek that stretches for 6,500 feet (2,000 meters), with a park of 92 acres (37.2 ha). There are other tracts of public property along the creek, one of which, called the Power Dam, is 2 miles (3.2 km) upstream of Benton.
It is 26.9 feet (8.2 m) long and is situated near Pennsylvania Route 29. A concrete slab bridge carrying Pennsylvania Route 29 was built over the creek in 1927 and repaired in 1980. It is 39.0 feet (11.9 m) long and is situated in Lehman Township. A concrete tee beam bridge was constructed over the creek in 1932 in Lake Township. It is 24.0 ...
The memorial tablets were moved to the nearby entrance of Smedley Park. [4] Crum Creek was dammed in 1931 near Pennsylvania Route 252 to fill Springton Lake (also known as Geist Reservoir), an approximately 391-acre (1.58 km 2) [5] drinking water reservoir maintained by Aqua America.
The focal point of the park is Archbald Pothole. The pothole is a remnant of the Wisconsin Glacial Period, 38 feet (11.6 m) deep with a largest diameter of 42 feet (12.8 m) by 24 feet (7.3 m). It has drawn tourists since just after it was discovered in 1884. Archbald Pothole State Park is on U.S. Route 6 Business in the borough of Archbald. The ...
[11] At the location where Catawissa Creek flows past Nescopeck Mountain in Main Township, there is a 580 feet (180 m) layer of rock known as the Pocono Formation. Below it, there is a 375 ft (114 m) layer of rock called the Pocono-Catskill Formation. Below the Pocono-Catskill Formation is a layer of red shale that is 100 ft (30 m) thick. [11]
French Creek begins near French Creek, New York, and flows about 117 miles (188 km) to the Allegheny River at Franklin, Pennsylvania. The creek's drainage basin covers 1,270 square miles (3,300 km 2). [7] The watershed includes parts of Erie, Crawford, Venango, and Mercer counties in Pennsylvania as well as Chautauqua County in New York. [1]