Search results for "Chester County, Pennsylvania" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Wayne was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania. He attended his uncle ... After the war, Wayne returned to Pennsylvania. He served in the state ...12 KB (1,812 words) - 05:54, 31 July 2023
- As the Shropshire county surveyor, Telford was also responsible for ... west Shropshire town of Ellesmere, with Chester, utilizing the existing ...13 KB (1,904 words) - 22:56, 30 April 2023
- in William Penn's charter for Pennsylvania, on August 24, 1682. During ... *Finland (Chamassungh), now Trainer, Pennsylvania 1641 *Upland, now ...18 KB (2,669 words) - 00:38, 27 February 2023
- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a state located in the Middle ... One of Pennsylvania's nicknames is the Quaker State; in colonial ...35 KB (4,904 words) - 17:13, 26 March 2023
- Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. All were among the original ... with only New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania ranking in the top ten ...25 KB (3,928 words) - 23:24, 28 June 2022
- seeds he obtained from cider mills in Pennsylvania in areas he believed settlers ... on Licking Creek, in what is now Licking County, Ohio, in 1800, when he was ...11 KB (1,788 words) - 08:14, 3 August 2022
- Philadelphia is the largest city in Pennsylvania and ranks sixth in ... communities that made up Philadelphia County before their absorption by ...34 KB (4,831 words) - 03:00, 24 November 2022
- and Potomac Railroad (a predecessor of the Pennsylvania Railroad) Washington, D.C., on his way to his alma mater, Williams College, where he was ...23 KB (3,377 words) - 21:14, 20 March 2024
- and parts of six states: New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia ... * Chester River * Choptank River * Patuxent River * Potomac River ...21 KB (3,138 words) - 18:31, 8 December 2023
- Boone (1696–1765), had immigrated to Pennsylvania from the small town of ... what was then the western edge of the Pennsylvania frontier. There were a ...44 KB (6,905 words) - 18:14, 24 January 2024
- with local chapters reporting to county leaders, counties reporting ... operate autonomously, and there never were county, district, or state headquarters. ...52 KB (7,797 words) - 04:38, 4 March 2023
- College, some of the buildings on West Chester University's campus ... *Alumni Memorial Building at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania ...32 KB (4,445 words) - 04:37, 31 December 2022
- immigrants from the parish of Killinkere, County Cavan, Ireland. He grew up ... Valley to invade Maryland and Pennsylvania and threaten Washington ...46 KB (7,083 words) - 03:18, 24 November 2022
- fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts ... age, and inhabitants of Lexington, in the County of Middlesex…do testify ...65 KB (10,526 words) - 02:50, 26 September 2023
- Like most of New England, Vermont has a nearly non-existent county ... almost 59 percent of the vote. Essex County in the state's northeastern ...45 KB (6,488 words) - 23:23, 5 March 2023
- | place of birth=Hardin County, Kentucky (now in LaRue County, Kentucky) ... In 1816, he and his parents moved to Spencer County, Indiana; he would ...51 KB (7,956 words) - 06:30, 14 June 2023
- Vanbrugh was born in London, and grew up in Chester, where the family ... who designed several buildings in the county that show Vanbrugh's ...52 KB (8,013 words) - 08:00, 3 August 2022
- the Kingdom of Jerusalem, as well as the County of Edessa, the Principality ... series) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993. ISBN 9780812230628 ...60 KB (9,144 words) - 10:41, 10 March 2023
- was named for him. Also, Pittsylvania County, Virginia, the smaller community ... For some weeks it rained gold boxes: Chester, Worcester, Norwich, ...49 KB (8,091 words) - 14:59, 10 October 2020
- enrolled at Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, where he ... renamed after Martin Luther King, Jr. King County, Washington rededicated its ...58 KB (9,123 words) - 17:52, 18 January 2023
