Pennsylvania Politics: A Tercentennial Perspective

Posted by on Nov 30, 2013 in | Comments Off on Pennsylvania Politics: A Tercentennial Perspective “Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad…” – William Penn   On 4 March 1681, Charles II, King of England, signed a char­ter which conveyed to his trouble­ some subject, William Penn, territory in English North America larger than Por­tugal and nearly four times the size of the Netherlands. Within...
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Cambria County: Coming Full Circle

Posted by on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off on Cambria County: Coming Full Circle 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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