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01 May 06

Mining (from Pennsylvania) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia

  • Pennsylvania has valuable deposits of petroleum. The first commercial oil well in the United States was drilled at Titusville by Edwin L. Drake in 1859. Today the richest oilfields are in McKean, Warren, Venango, Elk, and Forest counties. This northwestern corner of the state also yields natural gas. Sand and gravel are found in many parts of the state.
  • Cement is the second most valuable mineral. Most of it comes from Northampton and Lehigh counties. The Keystone State ranks after Texas and California in cement production. Third in value is stone. Limestone is quarried primarily in southeastern Pennsylvania.
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Agriculture (from Pennsylvania) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia

  • Hay, the leading crop, is grown throughout the state. Corn, wheat, and oats rank high in value. Truck crops and potatoes are grown in the southeast and northwest, and apples are grown in Adams County. Lancaster County produces cigar-leaf tobacco. Chester County grows many mushrooms, making Pennsylvania first in the country for mushroom production. It ranks among the top five states in the production of apples, grapes, and peaches.
  • About three fourths of the farm income is derived from livestock and poultry and their products. Milk is the chief agricultural product. Cattle and calves are next in value. Pennsylvania ranks number two among the states in egg production and number three in chicken production. Pigs and turkeys are also raised.
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Manufacturing (from Pennsylvania) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia

  • stone, clay, and glass products; printing and publishing; precision instruments; and the manufacture of transportation equipment.
  • Today first place in value is held by the processing of food and food products. Dairy products, beverages, bakery products, and candy are the largest items in this group. Other valuable industries are the production of nonelectrical and electrical machinery, fabricated metal products, electronic equipment, and chemicals and allied products. Major industries also include clothing
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Natural Resources (from Pennsylvania) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia

  • The conservation of water resources is particularly important, since the state uses about 16 billion gallons (61 billion liters) of water a day. About four times this amount is used to generate electricity at power plants, especially along the lower Susquehanna.
  • Pennsylvania has a wealth of natural resources for industry. Anthracite and bituminous coal, as well as petroleum and natural gas, supply great amounts of fuel for manufacturing. Deposits of limestone are useful in making steel and cement.
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23 Apr 06

Thomas Paine

  • Thomas Paine is heroically known for writing the influential pamphlet Common Sense. Over 500,000 copies were distributed. Through the wonderful use of language, Paine was capable of grasping the passions of every colonist and revitalizing their natural desire for freedom and liberation. The colonies were the yoke of an Imperialist reign that had wealth as the only end in mind. As the kings, queens, and princes trampled over the rights of their own citizens, thinkers arose who would come to oppose the rule of these tyrants. The most impressive of these thinkers was Thomas Paine.
  • The author of the American Revolution and a strong Abolitionist, Thomas Paine was a political writer who dared to ask the questions that were punishable by death. He was as much defiant of the Monarch powers that hunted him down as he was defiant of the religious powers that ostracized him from civilization. When Paine was only eight years of age, he immediately began to doubt the Bible. He had heard a sermon on atonement; the sermon described how god had murdered his only son to revenge himself when there was no other way. Upon hearing this appalling doctrine, this child of innocence and beauty -- the young Thomas Paine -- became an infidel and disagreed with the Bible. From these bright, inquisitive beginnings in childhood, Thomas Paine made great strides for the advancement of Rationalism.

Thomas Paine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thomas Paine

  • he died on June 8, 1809 at the age of 72 in New York City.
  • His career turned to journalism while in Philadelphia, and suddenly, Thomas Paine became very important. In 1776, he published Common Sense, a strong defense of American Independence from England. He joined the Continental Army and wasn't a success as a soldier, but he produced The Crisis (1776-83), which helped inspire the Army.
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William Penn

  • When William Penn left England on his first voyage to Pennsylvania,his
    head was full of visions and hopes for this new Land of Promise
    "six hundred miles nearer the sun." He wanted to see if he and his
    fellow Quakers could establish here a new society based on wider
    freedoms than the Old World knew; and he wanted also to see whether
    it was true, as he thought, that men and women were better and happier
    for this freedom.

PHMC: Pennsylvania Capital

  • Pennsylvania State Captiol Building
  • Harrisburg
    has been the capital of Pennsylvania since 1812, by an act approved on
    February 21, 1810. Philadelphia and then Lancaster were earlier capital
    cities.

William Penn, by Bill Samuel - QuakerInfo.com

  • Penn and the Quakers provided a relatively enlightened government. The penal system was designed to reform not just punish, all prisoners except capital prisoners were entitled to bail, work houses were substituted for dungeons, and the the death penalty was limited to murder and treason instead of the 200 crimes in England. Public education was available for all children. Penn designed Philadelphia and other towns with a grid pattern of streets, buildings and public squares to promote health and fire safety.
  • One of the things Penn is best known for is being proprietor of the colony of Pennsylvania. In 1681, Penn and 11 other Quakers bought the proprietary rights to East New Jersey. In payment for a debt King Charles II owed his father, Admiral Sir William Penn, Penn persuaded the king to grant him a vast province on the west bank of the Delaware River. It was named Pennsylvania, which means Penn's woods, after his father.
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Introduction


  • William Penn is known, of course, as the founder of Pennsylvania. He is
    also
    known as a famous Quaker and for his 'Great Treaty' with the Delaware. What is

    'known' however, is often obscured by myth. For example, Penn did not
    name
    his colony after himself (as he feared would be assumed), but after his
    recently
    departed father. He had wanted to call the colony 'New Wales' or
    'Sylvania' but
    King Charles II intervened, suggesting instead 'Pennsylvania'. It was
    the father
    after all, who left Penn his wealth, including the King's debt to him--which
    Charles II paid in full with a hefty chunk of New World land. Also,
    Penn only
    became a Quaker in his twenties, shortly after posing for his only painted portrait--the one with the lad in a
    full suit of
    armor. Peace-loving indeed. Yet peace is what he was loved and
    memorialized for, especially for his treaty with the Leni Lenape
    (Delaware). "I
    desire to gain your Love annd Friendship by a kind, Just and Peaceable
    Life" he
    wrote to them from England. And he followed up with that desire with his
    "holy
    experiment."

  • William Penn, Proprietor

Quick Biography of Benjamin Franklin

  • Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston on January 17, 1706. He was the tenth son of soap maker, Josiah Franklin. Benjamin's mother was Abiah Folger, the second wife of Josiah. In all, Josiah would father 17 children.

Benjamin Franklin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pennsylvania: Economy

  • Agriculture is concentrated in the fertile counties of the southeast, and prized farmlands lie in the Great Appalachian Valley, rich with limestone soils; here the Pennsylvania Dutch farmer built a culture that is identified with the bountiful agrarian life. Principal agricultural products include dairy products, cattle, hay, corn, wheat, oats, mushrooms, poultry, potatoes, and fruit.
  • nother Pennsylvania resource, anthracite coal, found in the northeast, long made the state a dominant force in American railroading. Heavy industry has declined in general, but the state still manufactures metal products, transportation equipment, foodstuffs, machinery, chemicals, and a wide variety of plastic, rubber, stone, clay, and glass products.
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21 Apr 06

Monongahela River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ohio River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  • The river is formed by the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers at The Point of Pittsburgh. From Pittsburgh, it flows to the northwest through western Pennsylvania, before making an abrupt, almost 180 degree, turn to the south-southwest at the West Virginia state line, from which point it forms the border between West Virginia and Ohio. The river then follows a roughly southwestern and then western course between Kentucky and Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois until it joins the Mississippi from the east at Cairo, Illinois. [1]

  • The Ohio River is a principal tributary of the Mississippi River, 1,579 km (981 mi) long in the eastern United States.


    Of great significance in the history of North America dating from the time of the Native Americans, the river was a primary transportation route during the westward expansion of the early U.S. It flows through or along the border of six states, and its watershed encompasses 14 states, including many of the states of the southeastern U.S. through its largest tributary, the Tennessee. During the eiighteenth century it was the southern boundary

Susquehanna River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  • In the 18th century, William Penn, the founder of the Pennsylvania Colony, negotiated with the Lenape to allow white settlement in the colony between the Delaware River and the Susquehanna. Local legend claims that the name of the river comes from an Indian phrase meaning "mile wide, foot deep," referring to the Susquehanna's unusual dimensions, but while the word is Algonquian, it simply means "muddy water."
  • The Susquehanna River is a river in the northeastern United States. At approximately 410 mi (715 km) long, it is the longest river on the American East Coast. The Susquehanna forms from two main branches, with the North Branch, which rises in upstate New York often regarded as an extension of the main branch. The shorter West Branch, which rises in western Pennsylvania, is sometimes regarded as the principal tributary, joining the Norrth Branch near Sunbury in central Pennsylvania. The river drains a large watershed within the Allegheny Plateau of the Appalachian Mountains, cutting through water gaps in the lateral mountain ridges in a broad zigzag course to flow across the rural heartland of southeastern Pennsylvania, emptying in the north end of the Chesapeake Bay.
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