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Much of the county lies in the broad Hagerstown Valley between these two zones ; the valley is part of the Great Appalachian Valley that continues southward into Virginia and West Virginia as the Shenandoah Valley and northward into Pennsylvania as the Cumberland Valley.
It flows in a broad zigzag course generally southward across Western Pennsylvania ; first flowing southwest past Warren, Tidioute, Tionesta, Oil City, and Franklin, forming much of the northwestern boundary of Allegheny National Forest.
The drainage basin ( watershed ) includes portions of the Allegheny Plateau region of the Appalachian Mountains, cutting through water gaps in the lateral mountain ridges in a broad zigzag course to flow across the rural heartland of southeastern Pennsylvania and northeastern Maryland.
Soon the Buffalo and State Line Railroad and Erie and North East Railroad converted to standard gauge from 6 foot ( 1829 mm ) broad gauge and connected directly with the NYC in Buffalo, providing a through route to Erie, Pennsylvania.
The name referred not to Broadway in Manhattan, but rather to the " broad way " of the Pennsylvania Railroad's four-track right of way along a large portion of the route.
" The Department has broad discretionary powers in both the development and administration of educational policies which enhance the educational experience and quality in Pennsylvania.
In 1990 United States, this surname is shared by about 0. 007 % of the population, though the geographical distribution of the surname has been broad since at least 1840, at which time there was a modest concentration of Jacks in Pennsylvania.
The Pennsylvania Company was incorporated April 7, 1870 in Pennsylvania as a holding company with a broad charter.

Pennsylvania and gauge
After considerable debate and planning, most of the southern rail network was converted from gauge to gauge, nearly the standard of the Pennsylvania Railroad, over two remarkable days beginning on Monday, May 31, 1886.
In modern uses, certain isolated occurrences of non-standard gauges can still be found, such as the Pennsylvania trolley gauge.
Mount Union was the northern terminus for the narrow gauge East Broad Top Railroad, connecting to the Main Line of the Middle Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad ( now Norfolk Southern ).
There was a freight yard where railcars and cargo could be transferred to standard gauge for the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Montour Railroad is a former short line railroad company operating passenger and freight service on standard gauge track in southwestern Pennsylvania.
Huntingdon & Broad Top Mountain Railroad ( H & BTM ) is a former short line railroad company operating passenger and freight service on standard gauge track in south central Pennsylvania.
The Mount Gretna Narrow Gauge Railway was a gauge narrow gauge line of the Cornwall and Lebanon Railroad in the state of Pennsylvania that operated between 1889 and 1916.
The Gilded Age iron industrialist and railroad president Robert Habersham Coleman decided that a 4-mile ( 7-kilometer ) narrow gauge railroad to the top of nearby Governor Dick Mountain would provide an additional tourist draw, and a 0. 6-mile ( 1 kilometer ) spur at milepost 0. 75 could service the Pennsylvania National Guard rifle ranges nearby.
Category: Narrow gauge railroads in Pennsylvania
* April 6 – The East Broad Top Railroad, a 3 ft ( 914 mm ) gauge carrier in Pennsylvania, ceases operations.
The Pittsburg and Shawmut Railroad, also known as the Shawmut Line, was a short line railroad company operating passenger and freight service on standard gauge track in central and southwestern Pennsylvania.
The main line consisted of approximately 88 miles ( 140 km ) of standard gauge track extending from Brockway, Pennsylvania to Freeport, Pennsylvania.
The Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern Railroad also known as the Shawmut Line, was a Class I railroad company operating passenger and freight service on standard gauge track in central Pennsylvania and western New York.
Category: Narrow gauge railroads in Pennsylvania
Moorhead then left Florida and returned to Pennsylvania, where he developed a phosphate mine in Juniata County, PA and formed the narrow gauge Tuscarora Valley Rail Road.

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Some reports say he was rescued from timely retirement by his friend, Congressman Walter of Pennsylvania, at a moment when the Kennedy Administration was diligently searching for all the House votes it could get.
At any cost, he must leave the dreary Pennsylvania mining town where his father was a pharmacist.
that was Pennsylvania.
South of Laurel Grove Cemetery, and below the junction of the Neversink and the Delaware, was the Tri-State Rock, from which Stevie could spy New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as well as New York, simply by spinning around on his heel.
He could no longer build anything, whether a private residence in his Pennsylvania county or a church in Brazil, without it being obvious that he had done it, and while here and there he was taken to task for again developing the same airy technique, they were such fanciful and sometimes even playful buildings that the public felt assured by its sense of recognition after a time, a quality of authentic uniqueness about them, which, once established by an artist as his private vision, is no longer disputable as to its other values.
This was built by John Templeman from plans submitted by James Finley of Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
The first superhighways -- New York's Henry Hudson and Chicago's Lake Shore, San Francisco's Bay Bridge and its approaches, a good slice of the Pennsylvania Turnpike -- were built as part of the federal works program which was going to cure the depression.
`` The Groth Institute '', which was established in 1958, is a group activity affiliated with the Physics Department of The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa..
One of the vexatious problems to first confront President Kennedy was the property lying just across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House.
He said the assailant, who was armed with a automatic, entered the taxi at Pennsylvania Avenue and Gold Street.
He was replaced by George Meade, who followed Lee into Pennsylvania for the Gettysburg Campaign, which was a victory for the Union, though Lee's army avoided capture.
The Gettysburg Address was delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers ' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863.
Andy Warhol ( né Andrej Varchola, Jr .) was born on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The railroads were the first big businesses in America, and the Pennsylvania was one of the largest of them all.
He also gave stock to Scott and Thomson in his businesses, and the Pennsylvania was his best customer.
High above the city, near the small town of South Fork, the South Fork Dam was originally built between 1838 and 1853 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as part of a canal system to be used as a reservoir for a canal basin in Johnstown.
With the coming-of-age of railroads superseding canal barge transport, the lake was abandoned by the Commonwealth, sold to the Pennsylvania Railroad, and sold again to private interests and eventually came to be owned by the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club in 1881.
The conflict was centered on Carnegie Steel's main plant in Homestead, Pennsylvania, and grew out of a dispute between the National Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers of the United States and the Carnegie Steel Company.
* Johnny Appleseed John Chapman ( September 26, 1774 – March 18, 1845 ), also known as Johnny Appleseed, was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.
* Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1 – 3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
The first South Asian a cappella group was Penn Masala, founded in 1996 at the University of Pennsylvania.
Hesser was born in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
Attending three of them in rapid succession, the impoverished Capp was thrown out of each for nonpayment of tuition — the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and Designers Art School in Boston — the latter before launching his amazing career.

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