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The Birth of Pennsylvania, a portrait of William Penn (standing with document in hand), who founded the Province of Pennsylvania in 1681 as a refuge for Quakers after receiving a royal deed to it from King Charles II. The history of Pennsylvania stems back thousands of years when the first indigenous peoples occupied the area of what is now ...
The Gnadenhütten massacre was an attack during the French and Indian War in which Native allies of the French killed 11 Moravian missionaries at Gnadenhütten, Pennsylvania (modern day Lehighton, Pennsylvania) on 24 November 1755. They destroyed the mission village [2] and took one woman prisoner, and only four of the sixteen residents escaped ...
The Province of Pennsylvania, also known as the Pennsylvania Colony, was a British North American colony founded by William Penn, who received the land through a grant from Charles II of England in 1681. The name Pennsylvania was derived from "Penn's Woods", referring to William Penn's father Admiral Sir William Penn.
The Penn's Creek massacre was an October 16, 1755, raid by Lenape (Delaware) Native Americans on a settlement along Penn's Creek, [n 1] a tributary of the Susquehanna River in central Pennsylvania. It was the first of a series of deadly raids on Pennsylvania settlements by Native Americans allied with the French in the French and Indian War .
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Newspaper The Pennsylvania Intelligencer founded; Population: 2,990. [4] 1822 Original Harrisburg State Capitol building completed (started 1818; burned Feb 1897) 1831 Cumberland Valley Railroad completed. 1833 Harrisburg Nail Works opens across the river; 1834 Pennsylvania Canal opens at Harrisburg; Dauphin Deposit Bank established.
The General Assembly of Pennsylvania commissioned the surveying of land near Presque Isle through an act passed on 18 April 1795. Andrew Ellicott, who famously completed Pierre Charles L'Enfant's survey of Washington, D.C., and helped resolve the boundary between Pennsylvania and New York, arrived to begin the survey in June 1795. Initial ...
Pennsylvania constabulary, mounted on horses, at McKee's Rock, c. 1909 1909 (United States) McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, Steel Strike began. [25] 1909 (United States) Watertown, Connecticut, Arsenal Strike occurred. [26] Two women strikers on picket line during the "Uprising of the 20,000", garment workers strike, New York City.