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Now a Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission site Colerain State Park [4] Huntingdon County: unknown: Colerain Picnic Area [28] Now part of Rothrock State Forest (Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry) although as of 2012 it is not shown on the official state forest web site or map; [29] [30] also known historically as "Colerain Forge".
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 .
Beaver County was created on March 12, 1800, from parts of Allegheny and Washington counties. [5] It took its name from the Beaver River. [6]Original township in 1800. The original townships at the date of the erection of Beaver County (1800) were North Beaver, east and west of the Big Beaver Creek; South Beaver, west of the Big Beaver; and Sewickley, east of the Big Beaver—all north of the ...
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 ...
Raccoon Creek State Park: Located in Beaver County, Raccoon Creek State Park sits on 7,572 acres and is home to the 101-acre Raccoon Lake. Raccoon Creek State Park has 44 miles of trail and ...
Camp Colt was established in 1917, and opened at Gettysburg National Military Park in March, 1918 as the first post to train soldiers to use tanks during World War I. The main section of the camp was in the fields made famous 55 years before on July 3, 1863, by Pickett's Charge ordered by Confederate Commanding General Robert E. Lee.
1820. First bridge built at Harrisburg: The "Camelback Bridge" (a wooden, covered bridge). Newspaper The Pennsylvania Intelligencer founded. Population: 2,990. [4] 1822 Original Harrisburg State Capitol building completed (started 1818; burned Feb 1897) 1831 Cumberland Valley Railroad completed. 1833 Harrisburg Nail Works opens across the river.
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.