At any cost, he must leave the dreary Pennsylvania mining town where his father was a pharmacist.

He said to the Secretary, `` I understand you came from a little Pennsylvania town near Wilkes-Barre.

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.

* Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1 – 3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

" The photo was taken near the town of Ridgway, Pennsylvania, in the Allegheny National Forest.

Because of the effects of the Great Depression on the Detroit area, his father moved the family to Boothwyn, Pennsylvania, near the town of Chester, when Bill was seven years old.

The Battle of Gettysburg (, with an sound ), was fought July 1 – 3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

* Pennsylvania, as a type of municipality comparable to a town.

Only one incorporated town is chartered in Pennsylvania.

There was Road, a story about an interstate highway in Minnesota ; a project about Robert Golka, the creator of laser-induced fireballs in Utah ; and the story of Centralia, Pennsylvania, the coal town in which an " inextinguishable subterranean fire " ignited in 1962.

* Battle of Gettysburg, July 1 – 3, 1863, fought in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Union victory.

The Society is best known for its worldly successes, most notably the establishment of three model communities, the first at Harmony, Pennsylvania ; the second, also called Harmony, in the Indiana Territory, now New Harmony, Indiana ; and the third and final town at Economy, now Ambridge, Pennsylvania.

Ten years after the move to Indiana the commune moved again, this time returning to western Pennsylvania, and named their third and final town Economy (' Ökonomie ' in German ).

Owen named the town New Harmony, and by May, the last of the Harmony Society's remaining members returned to Pennsylvania.

They first settled and built the town of Harmony, Pennsylvania, in 1804, and established the Harmony Society in 1805 as a religious commune.

In 1814, the Society sold their first town in Pennsylvania and moved to the Indiana Territory, where they built their second town.

In 1824, they decided it was time to leave Indiana, sold their land and town in Indiana, and moved to their final settlement in Western Pennsylvania.

After two years as a high-school teacher in Oil City, Pennsylvania and one teaching elementary school in the small town of Charlotte Vermont, Dewey decided that he was unsuited for employment in primary or secondary education.

After a brief stay in Chicago, visiting relatives, they moved to the coal mining town of Windber, Pennsylvania.

* 1908 – A mine explosion in the mining town of Marianna, Pennsylvania kills 154.

* September 30 – The Austin Dam breaks, wiping out the town of Austin, Pennsylvania, United States, killing 78.

* The town of Claysburg in central Pennsylvania is named in honor of Clay.

"), still stands near the town named for him, Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania.

The New Jersey Transit Corporation ( usually shortened to New Jersey Transit, NJ Transit or NJT ) is a statewide public transportation system serving the US state of New Jersey ; New York, Orange, and Rockland counties in New York State ; and Philadelphia County in Pennsylvania.

A Slovak American from the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania, he is perhaps best remembered for a tackle on the New York Giants ' Frank Gifford, then a star running back, that knocked Gifford out of professional football for a year and a half, and shortened Gifford's playing career.

Janis was born Byron Yanks ( a shortened form of his family's name, Yankilevich ) in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, to Russian-Polish Jewish parents.

* An informal, shortened form of the political division type borough, used both in the names of some towns, but also as official county level subdivisions in the Northeastern United States, especially Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia.

The Pennsylvania State University Creamery, often shortened to just Berkey Creamery or The Creamery, is a producer and vendor of ice cream, sherbet, and cheese, all made through the Department of Food Science in the College of Agricultural Sciences of the Pennsylvania State University.

Aug. 4, 1821, nearly a century after Benjamin Franklin founded the Pennsylvania Gazette -- a century during which it had undergone several changes in ownership and a few brief suspensions in publication -- this paper made its first appearance as the Saturday Evening Post.

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.

Pennsylvania closes its fiscal year on May 31.

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.

Dr. H. V. Hilprecht, Professor of Assyrian at the University of Pennsylvania, dreamed that a Babylonian priest, associated with the king Kurigalzu, ( 1300 B.C. ) escorted him to the treasure chamber of the temple of Bel, gave him six novel points of information about a certain broken relic, and corrected an error in its identification.

About the same time the Alleghenies and Poconos in Pennsylvania are magnificent -- Renovo holds its annual Flaming Foliage Festival on Oct. 14, 15.

* 1789 – In New York City, the United States House of Representatives holds its first quorum and elects Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as its first House Speaker.

In 1855, Scott made it possible for Carnegie to invest $ 500 in the Adams Express, which contracted with the Pennsylvania to carry its messengers.

Although he had left the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, he remained closely connected to its management, namely Thomas A. Scott and J. Edgar Thomson.

He was also partners with William Goddard and Joseph Galloway the three of whom published the Pennsylvania Chronicle, a newspaper that was known for its revolutionary sentiments and criticisms of the British monarchy in the American colonies.

* Burroughs made military computers, such as the D825 ( the " D " prefix signifying it was for defense industrial use ), in its Great Valley Laboratory in Paoli, Pennsylvania.

In 1790, at least, “ the powers of the court of king's bench vested in the supreme court of Pennsylvania .” As for the dissolution of corporations, there seems not to have been much question that a corporation might “ surrender its legal existence into the hands of that power, from which it was received.

* Pennsylvania uses the " Commonwealth of Pennsylvania " constitutionally and in its official title.

Commodore is the commonly used collective name for Commodore International Limited and the various national companies that operated underneath it, including Commodore Business Machines ( CBM ), the U. S .- based home computer and electronics manufacturer with headquarters in West Chester, Pennsylvania that it shared with its parent.

Commodore had been reorganized the year before into Commodore International, Ltd., moving its financial headquarters to the Bahamas and its operational headquarters to West Chester, Pennsylvania, near to the MOS Technology site.

The Commodore Semiconductor Group ( formerly MOS Technology, Inc .) was bought by its former management and in 1995, resumed operations under the name GMT Microelectronics, utilizing a troubled facility in Norristown, Pennsylvania that Commodore had closed in 1992.

* 1856 – The Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The H. J. Heinz Company (), commonly known as Heinz and famous for its " 57 Varieties " slogan and its ketchup, is a U. S Consumer packaged goods company with world headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.