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Surface area. 8,300 acres (33.6 km 2) Max. depth. 200 ft (61.0 m) Raystown Lake is a reservoir in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. It is the largest lake that is entirely within Pennsylvania. The original lake was built by the Simpson family of Huntingdon as a hydroelectric project. The current 8,300-acre (34 km 2) Raystown Lake was completed ...
Poster by Albert M. Bender, produced by the Illinois WPA Art Project Chicago in 1935 for the CCC CCC boys leaving camp in Lassen National Forest for home. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a voluntary government work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages 17–28. [1]
Security class. Minimum-Security. Opened. June, 1992. Managed by. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. Quehanna Boot Camp. Quehanna Motivational Boot Camp is a mixed-sex six-month, military-style boot camp program operated by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections in rural Clearfield County .
The Creation Museum, located in Petersburg, Kentucky, United States, is a museum that promotes the pseudoscientific young Earth creationist (YEC) explanation of the origin of the universe and life on Earth based on a literal interpretation of the Genesis creation narrative of the Bible. It is operated by the Christian creation apologetics ...
The Antiochian Village Retreat and Conference Center/Camp was founded in 1978 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Ligonier, Pennsylvania. [2] Owned and operated by the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, it consists of both a Camp and a Retreat and Conference Center. In 1994, the Antiochian Village was the site of the Ligonier ...
The United States Penitentiary, Allenwood ( USP Allenwood) is a maximum security United States federal prison in Pennsylvania. It is part of the Allenwood Federal Correctional Complex (FCC Allenwood) and is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice . FCC Allenwood is located on US Route 15 ...
Buchenwald ( German pronunciation: [ˈbuːxn̩valt]; literally ' beech forest ') was a Nazi concentration camp established on Ettersberg hill near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937. It was one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps within the Altreich. Many actual or suspected communists were among the first internees.
Liberated by. Red Army, 20 January 1945. Płaszów(Polish pronunciation:[ˈpwaʂuf]) or Kraków-Płaszówwas a Nazi concentration campoperated by the SSin Płaszów, a southern suburb of Kraków, in the General Governorateof German-occupied Poland. Most of the prisoners were Polish Jewswho were targeted for destruction by Nazi Germanyduring the ...