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Trailheads

Posted by Amy Fox on Mar 13, 2020 in | Comments Off Summer is the busiest season on the Pennsylvania Trails of History. Daytrippers enjoy a wealth of options for guided or free-range touring. Families find places to create lasting memories and help stave off the dreaded “learning loss” of summer. Outdoor enthusiasts break up their recreational time, or wait out bad weather, with a gallery visit or two. Numerous summer camp offerings are available...
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Washington County: From Ice Age to Space Age

Posted by Harriet Branton on Nov 30, 2013 in | Comments Off Southwestern Pennsylvania was for centuries a happy hunting ground for Indians who were living there as long as two thousand years ago. In fact, as the result of archaeological discoveries made at the Meadowcroft Rock Shelter near Avella between 1973 and 1975, University of Pittsburgh anthropologists have proven conclusively that Ice Age people roamed the forests of Washington County even...
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Clinton County: Still Part of Penn’s Woods

Posted by Rebecca Gross on Nov 30, 2013 in | Comments Off Clinton County, one of the sixth-class counties of Pennsylvania, occupies 900 square miles of river valley and mountain land near the geographical center of the state. Nearly two-thirds of the area remains forested, al though most of the trees are second growth after a near denuding of the land by a booming lumber industry in the second half of the last century. It was in the woodlands of...
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The Road to Resorts: Transportation and Tourism in Monroe County

Posted by Frederick Beaver on Nov 30, 2013 in | Comments Off Monroe County flourishes today as a lush, verdant resort and popular recreational area on the periphery of metropolitan centers. Tourism is supplemented by light industry which has left the largely rural setting relatively intact. Essentially, the county offers open countryside through which travelers make good time on interstate highways on their way to or from major cities and in which they...
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Fulton County: Where Country is Still Country

Posted by Anne Lodge on Nov 30, 2013 in | Comments Off When the first settlers wandered into the Great Cove – a deep basin formed by the southern ranges of the Kittochtinny and Tuscarora mountains – they discovered strikingly beautiful valleys, incised with sparkling streams, whose only intrusions were Indian trails and remote packers’ paths. During the two centuries since its settlement, the picturesque mountain ridges and...
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Schuylkill County: Built on Coal

Posted by Joseph Hanney on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off The history of Schuylkill County is inextricably bound to the story – and drama – of the great anthracite industry in the United States. Despite nearly two centuries of active mining, the county’s 783 square miles still boast the largest accessible reserves of hard coal known in the world. Its lives and lifestyles have been quasi-fictionalized by two of the county’s best...
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Eagles Mere: Of Cottages and Kings

Posted by Laura Mumma on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off No longer defending their fortifications from hostile Indians nor protecting their territory from grasping foreign governments, late nineteenth century Americans – encouraged by the prosperity of the rampant Industrial Revolution, as well as improved transportation systems – were able to indulge in but one of the many advantages of peacetime prosperity: the pursuit of pleasure. And...
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Cambria County: Coming Full Circle

Posted by John Coleman on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off Located in the highlands of west-central Pennsylvania and amidst forbidding mountains – the Allegheny escarpment and the Laurel Ridge standing sentinel on its eastern and western borders – the territory that would become Cambria County was not easily accessible to early Pennsylvanians. Migrants bound westward during the second half of the eighteenth century avoided its...
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Cameron County: Where Legends are Legion

Posted by Michael O'Malley on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off Tucked high away in Pennsylvania’s once foreboding northern tier, the little county called Cameron was a segment of the vast wilderness known for many years as the Commonwealth’s last frontier. In fact, the county was not formally established until 1860, the sixty-sixth of the sixty-seven counties apportioned and organized by the state legislature. Actual settlement of Cameron...
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A Walk of Injustice

Posted by Peggy Robbins on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off Just before sunrise on Monday, September 19, 1737, a strange gathering of Indians, white settlers and professional woodsmen assembled beneath a mammoth chestnut tree along the Durham Road in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The Indians were Minsi and Shawnee of the Delaware Nation, along with two of their chiefs, Tisheekunk and Nutimus; the white settlers were men anxious for Pennsylvania to...
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