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4 days ago · CUMBERLAND COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) – A state bridge on Route 641 over Big Spring Creek was named in honor of SFC Randall Shughart this week. Shughart, whose hometown is near the bridge, attended...
2 days ago · The area experienced two main settlement periods of Scotch-Irish. During the 1750s–1760s, second- and third-generation Scotch-Irish Americans moved from Pennsylvania, Virginia, and North Carolina. This particular group had large families, and as a group they produced goods for themselves and for others. They generally were Patriots.
4 days ago · The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) has announced lane width restrictions on Center Street (Route 1015/East Penn Drive) bridge over Conodoguinet Creek in Camp Hill Borough and East Pennsboro Township, Cumberland County.
3 days ago · While Quakers were the predominant group to settle in Pennsylvania, the colony also attracted a rich mix of ethnic and religious backgrounds. Welsh Quakers settled in the area north and west of Philadelphia, in what are now Montgomery, Chester, and Delaware counties.
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4 days ago · During his lifetime, on September 19, 1789, Mifflin County was named in his honor, created out of parts of Cumberland and Northumberland Counties. Thomas Mifflin died on January 20, 1800 in the city of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
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3 days ago · Penn was born on Oct. 14, 1644, in London, in the middle of that country's civil war. Penn's father (also named William), an admiral in the Royal Navy, was a supporter of King Charles I and was able to keep his possessions even though the king lost the war (and his life).
