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  2. Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    After several attempts during the early and mid-century to establish a historical society, an organization called Old Residents of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania was formed on January 10, 1859. Five years later the group changed its name to Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania. In 1911, society members oversaw the planning and ...

  3. Monongahela culture - Wikipedia

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    The Monongahela cultural region with some of its major sites and neighbors as of 1050~1635 AD. The Monongahela culture were an Iroquoian Native American cultural manifestation of Late Woodland peoples from AD 1050 to 1635 in present-day Western Pennsylvania, western Maryland, eastern Ohio, and West Virginia. [1]

  4. List of museums in West Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Mid-19th-century period home of Civil War Col. George Imboden, schoolhouse, museum of historic household and cultural artifacts. Cook-Hayman Pharmacy Museum. Morgantown. Monongalia. Mountaineer Country. Medical. website, part of West Virginia University Medical Center, historic pharmacy display open by appointment.

  5. Western Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    UTC-4 (EDT) Western Pennsylvania is a region in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania encompassing the western third of the state. Pittsburgh is the region's principal city, with a metropolitan area population of about 2.4 million people, and serves as its economic and cultural center. Erie, Altoona, and Johnstown are its other metropolitan centers.

  6. Penn's Creek massacre - Wikipedia

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    The Penn's Creek massacre was an October 16, 1755 raid by Lenape (Delaware) Native Americans on a settlement along Penn's Creek, [n 1] a tributary of the Susquehanna River in central Pennsylvania. It was the first of a series of deadly raids on Pennsylvania settlements by Native Americans allied with the French in the French and Indian War.

  7. National Register of Historic Places listings in West Virginia

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    This is a list of properties and historic districts in West Virginia that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. There are listings in every one of West Virginia's 55 counties. Listings range from prehistoric sites such as Grave Creek Mound, to Cool Spring Farm in the state's eastern panhandle, one of the state's first ...

  8. Harrison County, West Virginia - Wikipedia

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    The terrain slopes to the West Fork River valley from both east and west borders, and also generally slopes to the north. Its highest point is on its south corner, at 1,736 ft (529 m) ASL. [ 16 ] The county has a total area of 417 square miles (1,080 km 2 ), of which 416 square miles (1,080 km 2 ) is land and 0.5 square miles (1.3 km 2 ) (0.1% ...

  9. Walking Purchase - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Penn, governor of the Province of Pennsylvania from 1746 to 1775, c. 1752 Lappawinsoe, who sold regions of present-day eastern Pennsylvania and western New Jersey to the sons of William Penn in the Walking Purchase, c. 1735 A historical marker in Nockamixon Township, erected in 1949 by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission commemorating the Walking Purchase

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