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This project is used to relate all units from Pennsylvania who served in the Union Army and such soldiers who were born in PA ~• Many soldiers wounded and captured and paroled were treated in Annapolis at the USNA See, for instance: = The Philadelphia Inquirer Mon, Mar 20, 1865 ·Page 2
Allegheny County is located in the southwest of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,250,578, making it the state's second-most populous county, following Philadelphia County. The county seat is Pittsburgh . Allegheny was the first county in Pennsylvania to be given a Native American name. It was named after the Lenape word for the Allegheny River. The m...
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Official County Website The County of Lancaster is a popular tourist destination, with its Amish community a major attraction. Contrary to popular belief, the word "Dutch" in "Pennsylvania Dutch" is not a mistranslation, but rather a corruption of the Pennsylvania German endonym Deitsch, which means "...
Please add profiles for people who were born, lived or died in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Official Website The lands constituting Schuylkill County were acquired by Penn's proprietors by treaty executed August 22, 1749, with representatives of the Six Nations and the Delaware, Shamokin and Shawnee, who received 500 pounds "lawful money of Pennsylvania". The territory described included ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived, or died in the city or county of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Also known as "The City of Brotherly Love" and "Philly" Formerly the capital of the United States when Washington D.C. was being built. Official Website Please see Wikipedia for a full history. Adjacent Counties Bucks County Burlington County, New Jersey Camden County...
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Please add profiles for people who were born, lived or died in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Official Website Bucks County is one of the three original counties created by colonial proprietor William Penn in 1682. Penn named the county after Buckinghamshire, the county where he lived in England. He built a country estate called Pennsbury Manor in Falls Township, Bucks County. Some places in Bu...
Wikipedia The United States Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, generally known as Carlisle Indian Industrial School, was the flagship Indian boarding school in the United States from 1879 through 1918. Founded in 1879 by Captain Richard Henry Pratt under authority of the US federal government, Carlisle was the first federally funded off-reservation Indian boarding school. It ...
Wikipedia ==Haverford College=Haverford College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States, a suburb of Philadelphia. All students of the College are undergraduates, and nearly all reside on campus.The college was founded in 1833 by area members of the Orthodox Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) to en...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Official Website The county was created on September 10, 1784. It is believed to have been named either for Richard Montgomery, an American Revolutionary War general killed in 1775 while attempting to capture Quebec City, or for the Welsh county of Montgomeryshire (which was named after one of Willia...
Wikipedia Swarthmore College Swarthmore College is a private liberal arts college in the United States with an enrollment of 1,545 students. The college is located in the borough of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, 11 miles southwest of Philadelphia. Founded in 1864, Swarthmore was one of the earliest coeducational colleges in the United States. The school was organized by a Committee of Quakers f...
West Laurel Hill Cemetery is a cemetery located on 215 Belmont Avenue, Bala Cynwyd, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1869 and is the site of many notable burials. The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992 (#92000991). West Laurel Hill was designed as a rural cemetery and is a "sister" institution to the Laurel Hill Cemetery nearby in Philadelp...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. Official Website The county was formed in 1772 from parts of Lancaster, Berks, Bedford, Cumberland, and Northampton Counties and named for the county of Northumberland in northern England. Adjacent Counties Lycoming County Union County Columbia County Schuylkill County Montour County ...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Official Website The county was created on March 4, 1785, from part of Lancaster County and was named after Louis-Joseph, Dauphin of France, the first son of king Louis XVI. Located within the county is Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station, site of the 1979 nuclear core meltdown. The county con...
Wikipedia =Carnegie Mellon University=Carnegie Mellon University (Carnegie Mellon or CMU; /ˈkɑrnɨɡi ˈmɛlən/ or /kɑrˈneɪɡi ˈmɛlən/) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.The university began as the Carnegie Technical Schools founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1900. In 1912, the school became the Carnegie Institute of Technology and began granting four-year degrees. In 1967, the...
University of Pennsylvania Wikipedia The University of Pennsylvania (commonly referred to as Penn or UPenn ) is an American private Ivy League research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn considers itself the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, as well as the first university in the United States with both undergraduate and gra...
Incorporated in 1844, the Allegheny Cemetery is the sixth oldest rural cemetery in the United States. It has been expanded over the years and now encompasses 300 acres. Allegheny Cemetery memorializes more than 124,000 people. Some of the oldest graves are of soldiers who fought in the French and Indian War . Their remains were reinterred here, moved from their original burial site at Trinity ...
Laurel Hill Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Philadelphia. Founded in 1836, it was the second major garden or rural cemetery in the United States. In 1998, it was designated a National Historic Landmark; few cemeteries have received this distinction.[4]Located in Philadelphia's East Falls section, the 74-acre (300,000 m2) cemetery overlooks the Schuylkill River. Laurel Hill contains more than...
Bryn Mawr College, is a women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Founded as a Quaker institution in 1885, Bryn Mawr is one of the Seven Sister colleges, a group of elite, historically women's colleges in the United States, and the Tri-College Consortium along with Haverford College and the University of Pennsylvania. The college has an enrollment of about 1,350 undergraduate stu...
Wikipedia Temple University, commonly referred to as Temple, is a comprehensive public research university (formerly private) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The University was founded in 1884 by Russell Conwell. As of 2014, more than 37,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students are enrolled in over 400 academic degree programs offered at seven campuses and sites in P...
Saint Mary's Ukrainian Orthodox Church Cemetery Fullerton, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, USA
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. Official Website The county, which was first settled around 1730, was formed in 1812 with the division of Northampton County into two counties. It is named after the Lehigh River, whose name is derived from the Delaware Indian term Lechauweki or Lechauwekink, meaning "where there are forks". Adjacent ...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. Official Website Lycoming County was formed from Northumberland County on April 13, 1795 and is the mother county of 16 other counties. It is named for Lycoming Creek, which is the Delaware Indian word for "sandy creek". In 1615 the first European in Lycoming County was Étienne Brûlé. He was a voyage...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Erie County, Pennsylvania. Official Website Erie County was established on March 12, 1800. Prior to 1792, the region was claimed by both New York and Pennsylvania and so no county demarcations were made until the federal government intervened. On March 23, 1823, the Erie County Courthouse burned and all county records to that poi...