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Pennsylvania Facts and Trivia
- Pennsylvania is the first state of the fifty United States
to list their web site URL on a license plate.
- In 1909 the first baseball stadium was built in Pittsburgh.
- Hershey is considered the Chocolate Capital of the United
States.
- In 1913 the first automobile service station opened in
Pittsburgh.
- In 1946 Philadelphia became home to the first computer.
- Bob Hoffman of York is hailed the world round as the Father
of Weightlifting. Hoffman started York Barbell Corp. in 1932 and
preached the gospel of physical fitness throughout his life as
an U.S. Olympic coach, businessman and philanthropist.
- The first daily newspaper was published in Philadelphia on
Sept. 21, 1784.
- Philadelphia saw the first Zoological garden in July 1874.
- Drake Well Museum in Titusville is on the site where Edwin
L. Drake drilled the world's first oil well in 1859 and launched
the modern petroleum industry.
- In Hazleton, there is a law on the books that prohibits a
person from sipping a carbonated drink while lecturing students
in a school auditorium.
- In Philadelphia in 1775 Johann Behrent built the first piano
in America calling it under the name "Piano Forte."
- Philadelphia is the site of the first presidential mansion.
- Betsy Ross made the first American flag in Philadelphia.
- "Doctor, if you don't give me something to help me breathe,
I'm going to stop!" came the urgent cry of 16-year old Frederick
Gable of Loganville. Vowing not to lose another patient to
pneumonia, Dr. George Holtzapple successfully created the first
application of oxygen, thus saving his patient's life and
winning international fame through his discovery. The year was
1885.
- Stewartstown hired its first police officer in 1876. He was
also the town lamp lighter.
- Philadelphia is home to the cheesesteak sandwich, water ice,
soft pretzels, and TastyKakes.
- The Rockville Bridge in Harrisburg is the longest stone arch
bridge in the world.
- Kennett Square is known as the Mushroom Capital of the
World.
- The town of Franklin became a center for worldwide oil
production following Colonel Edwin Drake's discovery of oil in
nearby Titusville.
- The Declaration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia
in 1776.
- KDKA radio in Pittsburgh produced the first commercial radio
broadcast.
- Philadelphia is home to the Liberty Bell.
- Each year on Christmas day the "Crossing of the Delaware" is
reenacted at Washington Crossing.
- The Liberty Tunnel in Pittsburgh opened in 1924. At that
time the 5,700 foot facility was the longest artificially
ventilated automobile tunnel in the world.
- Pennsylvania is the only original colony not bordered by the
Atlantic Ocean.
- Benjamin Franklin founded the Philadelphia Zoo, the first
public zoo in the United States.
- Indiana County is the Christmas Tree capital of the world.
- Actor Jimmy Stewart was born and raised in the town of
Indiana. Each year at Christmas the downtown area is decorated
in the theme of the film "It's a Wonderful Life".
- Pittsburgh is famous for manufacturing steel. Its
professional football team is named the Pittsburgh Steelers.
- Fairmount Park in Philadelphia is the largest city park with
over 8,000 acres.
- Pittsburgh has over 300 sets of city maintained steps. If
they were stacked on top of each other, they would reach over
26,000 feet high. They would measure higher than a lot of the
Himalayan Mountains.
- Little League Baseball's first World Series was held in 1946
in Williamsport.
- Nazareth is the home of Martin guitars. Finger picking good
since 1833.
- The State College Area High School was the first school in
the country to teach drivers education in 1958.
- Philadelphia was once the United States capital city.
- Originally Bellefonte, a town now with a population of
5,000, was once considered to be Pennsylvania's capital. But
Harrisburg was chosen because of the easy navigation on the
Susquehanna River.
- The first coal festival was held 201 years after the
establishment of "Peter's Camp" on Memorial weekend 1993 in
Blossburg.
- The oldest stone railroad bridge in use in Pennsylvania is
the Starrucca Viaduct that crosses PA Route 171 north of
Lanesboro in Susquehanna County.
- In June 1778, a 700 wagon caravan escorted the Liberty Bell
on its return to Philadelphia from Allentown along Towamencin's
Allentown Road. Nine months earlier, when British troops
threatened to capture the city, the bell had been whisked into
hiding via the same route.
- The Shenango River Dam near Sharpsville is a concrete
gravity dam with an uncontrolled center spillway. The roadway
crossing the top of the dam, over the spillway is nearly 68 feet
above the streambed. The dam has a top length of 720 feet with a
base width of 66 feet.
- At the Moravian Pottery & Tile Works in Doylestown handmade
tiles are still produced in a manner similar to that developed
by the potter's founder and builder, Henry Chapman Mercer.
- The Borough of Kane is known as the Black Cherry Capital of
the World.
- George G. Blaisdell founded Zippo Manufacturing of Bradford
in late 1932. He started with a simple idea: create a product
that answers a real need, design it to work, and guarantee it to
last.
- When completed in 1882, the Kinzua Railroad Bridge near
Mount Jewett was acclaimed "the highest and longest railroad
viaduct in the entire world." Rising 301 feet from the valley
floor at its center, with a total length of 2100 feet
- Antrim Township is located in South-Central Pennsylvania
with its southern border being a part of the Mason-Dixon line.
- Ringing Hill in Lower Pottsgrove Township is named after the
"ringing rocks" which were known for the unique ringing sound
they made when struck by a hammer.
- During the depression canned goods served as admission to
The Star Theater in Mercersburg to help supply the local soup
kitchen.
- Located in the Grape Coast region of Pennsylvania the city
of North East has four thriving wineries and is home to the
largest Welch's grape processing plant in the country.
- Penn Township, officially referred to as the Township of
Penn, was named after the founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn.
- Punxsutawney citizens are proud to be over shadowed by their town's most famous resident the world-renowned weather forecasting groundhog Punxsutawney Phil. Punxsutawney is billed as the weather capital of the world
GENERAL INFORMATION
- Experience Pennsylvania
- Fun Facts about Pennsylvania
- PA Travel
- Pennsylvania Visitors Network
- PA Dutch.... Convention & Visitors bureau
- Travel Agents - Tripology.com will connect you with a specialized Travel Agent that knows their way around all parts of Pennsylvania.
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CITIES
- Gettysburg Convention & Visitors Bureau
- Harrisburg-Hershey-Carlisle Tourism & Convention Bureau
- Johnstown
- Lancaster
- The Greater Philadelphia Story
- Historic Philadelphia
- Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau
- Philadelphia Visitors Guide
- Pittsburgh Downtown - Guide to hotels and suites in downtown Pittsburgh, Greentree, and near the airport.
- Pittsburgh Convention and Visitors Bureau
- Visit Pittsburgh
- Travel and Tourism Bureau
- Scranton
- State College
- Wilkes-Barre
- Wilmerding
- York
- All other Pennsylvania Towns and Cities
OTHER AREAS
- Bucks County Tourist info
- Go Phila - Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia Counties.
- Indiana County
- Lancaster County
- Lawrence County
- N. E. Pennsylvania
- The Poconos
- Valley Forge
LODGING
- TripAdvisor.com - Check out the hotel's reputation before you book!
- Doubletree Plymouth Meeting - Minutes from Philadelphia, PA and historic Valley Forge, the Doubletree Plymouth offers convenient accommodations to the Philadelphia Area and first class conference facilities.
- Luxury Philadelphia Hotel | A Loews Hotel | Philadelphia
- Marriott Philadelphia West - Marriott Philadelphia West, equally distant from Center City Philadelphia and the Airport. Book online and save.
- Pittsburgh Downtown - Guide to hotels and suites in downtown Pittsburgh, Greentree, and near the airport.
- Holiday Inn Select Bucks County - Located on the border of beautiful Bucks County and historic Northeast Philadelphia, our hotel offers the ideal setting for business & leisure travel alike.
- Doubletree Hotel Downtown Philadelphia
- Doubletree Hotel & guest Suites Plymouth Meeting
- Philadelphia Hotels and Accommodations - Discounted rates on Hotel rooms, Car Rentals, Flights, Vacation Rentals. Discountedhotels.com, your complete travel resource.
- Pittsburgh Hotels and Accommodations- Discounted rates on Hotel rooms, Car Rentals, Flights, Vacation Rentals. Discountedhotels.com, your complete travel resource.
- Find Lodging in the Major Pennsylvania Cities
- Lodging in all other Pennsylvania Towns
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