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4 days ago · Pennsylvania, constituent state of the U.S., one of the original 13 American colonies. It is bounded to the north by Lake Erie and New York; to the east by New York and New Jersey; to the south by Delaware, Maryland, and West Virginia, and to the west by West Virginia and Ohio. Its capital is Harrisburg.
- History
Tribes of the Ohio River valley lived in the central and...
- Agriculture
Pennsylvania - Dairy, Crops, Livestock: Pennsylvania...
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Pennsylvania - Humid, Temperate, Atlantic: Pennsylvania...
- Cultural Life
Pennsylvania has retained strong elements of folk culture...
- Lancaster
Lancaster, county, southeastern Pennsylvania, U.S.,...
- Lehigh
Lehigh, county, eastern Pennsylvania, U.S., consisting of a...
- Mount Davis
Mount Davis, highest point in Pennsylvania, U.S., at an...
- Carlisle
Carlisle, borough (town), seat (1751) of Cumberland county,...
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2 days ago · Pennsylvania ( / ˌpɛnsɪlˈveɪniə / ⓘ PEN-sil-VAY-nee-ə, lit. 'Penn's forest country' ), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania [b] ( Pennsylvania Dutch: Pennsylvanie ), [7] is a landlocked state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.
5 days ago · Ohio River, major river artery of the east-central United States. Formed by the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers at Pittsburgh, it flows northwest out of Pennsylvania, then in a general southwesterly direction to join the Mississippi River at Cairo, Illinois (see photograph),
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4 days ago · Tribes of the Ohio River valley lived in the central and western parts of the state. Swedes were the first European settlers in Pennsylvania. Traveling up the Delaware from a settlement at the present site of Wilmington, Del., Gov. Johan Printz of the colony of New Sweden established his capital on.
2 days ago · From the early 1600s, the Pennsylvania territory was disputed territory. People from Holland, Sweden, and England all claimed titles to land in what we now call Pennsylvania. The Swedes were the first European power to make a permanent settlement in present-day Pennsylvania.
1 day ago · Pittsburgh ( / ˈpɪtsbɜːrɡ / PITS-burg) is a city in and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is the second-most populous city in Pennsylvania, after Philadelphia, and the 68th-most populous city in the U.S., with a population of 302,971 as of the 2020 census. The city is located in southwestern Pennsylvania ...
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3 days ago · The map is included in Schwartz & Ehrenberg and other map histories, and shows the American flag printed on a map for the first time. Pennsylvania was growing fast and eight new counties were created in this decade: Washington County (seat at Washinton) in 1781; Fayette County (Uniontown) in 1783; Franklin County (Chambersburg) and Montgomery ...
