Letter from President Lyndon Johnson

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Letter from President Lyndon Johnson Act 167, signed by Governor David L. Lawrence on June 13, 1961, authorized counties, cities, boroughs, in­corporated towns, and townships in Pennsylvania to create historic districts and provided for the appointment of local Boards of Historical Architectural Review. Following the passage of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, on March 1, 1967, President Lyndon Baines Johnson...
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Letters

Posted by on Nov 24, 2013 in | Comments Off on Letters Radium, U.S.A I look forward to receiving every edition of Pennsylvania Heritage. The articles are always informative and well written. I learned much about Pittsburgh’s early contributions to the nuclear age from Joel O. Lubenau’s article, “Radium City, U.S.A.” The photographs were intriguing, especially those of Marie Curie touring the Standard Chemical Company’s...
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