PENNSYLVANIA FUN FACTS!!! (just in case you are bored...)
Some Pennsylvania Fun Facts! NICKNAME: The Keystone State
During coloniel times Pennsylvania was the middle colony
of the original 13 colonies.
It held the colonies together like the "keystone" in a window
or door arch.
BACKGROUND: PA was settled in 1643. Philadelphia was
the capitol during the revolutionary War and York was the
first capitol of the United States.
STATE NAME'S MEANING: Penn's Woods- after Admiral
William Penns father
MOTTO: Virtue, Liberty and Independence
FLOWER: Mountain Laurel
TREE: Hemlock
BIRD: Ruffed Grouse
ANIMAL: White Tail Deer
INSECT: Firefly
DOG: Great Dane
BEVERAGE: Milk
FISH: Brook Trout
FOSSIL: Phacops Rana
SHIP: USS Brig Niagra
GEOGRAPHY:
AREA: 45,888 square miles
RANK: 32nd in nation
WIDTH: 310 miles (east to west)- 180 miles (north -south)
HIGHEST POINT: Mt. Davis, Somerset County 3,123 feet
LOWEST POINT: Deleware River
LARGEST COUNTY: Lycoming County with its county seat
of Williamsport (The Home of Little League Baseball) is larger
than the state of Rhode Island.
Bradford County is second in size.
Counties with NO traffic lights: Forest County & Perry County
CAPITAL: Harrisburg in Dauphin County
COUNTIES: 67
Headwaters of 3 major rivers: Potter County
Highest County Population: 12,009,000 Lancaster County
has more people than the entire state of Wyoming.
Pennsylvania FIRSTS:
First Hospital
First Library
First Zoo
First Newspaper
First Nation's Capitol
First All-Motion Picture Theatre
First Television Broadcast
First Paper Mill
First Educational Public Television Station
First Druggist
First Locomotive for railroad use
First Banana Split (in Latrobe PA)
First High Speed Multi Lane Highway- THE PENNSYLVANIA
TURNPIKE.
I hope you've enjoyed the facts of PA! &... I bet you never knew!!
