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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 ...
Simon Pickle Stone House: April 18, 1977 : Junction of Pennsylvania Routes 192 and 445 at Madisonburg: Miles Township: 52: Potter-Allison Farm: December 6, 1977 : Southeast of Centre Hall on Pennsylvania Route 144
PA 26 turns north-northeast onto 2nd Street and passes homes, soon turning east onto Standing Stone Avenue and curving northeast past more development. [2] [5] PA 26 leaves Huntingdon for Oneida Township and becomes Standing Stone Road, heading through a mix of farmland and woodland with some homes a short distance west of Standing Stone Creek ...
Centre County: 027: Bellefonte: 1800: Parts of Lycoming, Mifflin, Northumberland, and Huntingdon Counties: Centre Furnace, the first industrial facility in the area 157,795: 1,112 sq mi (2,880 km 2) Chester County: 029: West Chester: 1682: One of the original counties at the formation of Pennsylvania: The English city of Chester in the county ...
Pennsylvania Route 191 (PA 191) is a 111.54 mi (179.51 km)-long state highway in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.The route, a major non-freeway corridor connecting the Lehigh Valley to the Pocono Mountains in eastern Pennsylvania, is designated from U.S. Route 22 (US 22) in Brodhead near Bethlehem to the New York state line over the Delaware River at Hancock, New York.
Pennsylvania Route 504 (PA 504) is a 24.5-mile-long (39.4 km) state highway located in Centre County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The western terminus is at PA 53 / PA 350 in Philipsburg . The eastern terminus is at US 220 Alternate / PA 144 in Wingate .
Bellefonte Historic District is a national historic district located at Bellefonte, Centre County, Pennsylvania. The district encompasses 296 contributing buildings in the central business district and surrounding residential area of Bellefonte. The oldest building in the district is the Col. James Dunlop House dated to 1795.
Philipsburg is home to a number of sites of renovated historical interest, including the Rowland Theater (located on Front Street), the Union Church and Burial Ground, also known as the "Mud" Church, on Presqueisle Street, the Simler House (on North Second St), and the Hardman Philips House, located off Presqueisle Street near Ninth Street, thought to be a stop on the Underground Railroad.