Portal:Pennsylvania/Did you know/2




 * … that the 1040 ft long Starrucca Viaduct (pictured) in Lanesboro, Pennsylvania was the largest and most expensive stone railway viaduct when built in 1848, and is still in use by the Norfolk Southern Railway?
 * … that in 1977, K. Leroy Irvis of Pennsylvania became the first Black American to serve as a speaker of the house in any state legislature in the United States?
 * … that in the early 1900s, the Spruce Flats Bog in Forbes State Forest, Pennsylvania underwent a forced reversal from forest to bog, and is now slowly returning to a forest?
 * … that during the American Civil War, Pennsylvania provided over 360,000 soldiers who served in the Union Army, more than any other Northern state except New York?
 * ... that the Fair Play Men, a group of squatters in colonial Pennsylvania, made their own declaration of independence from Britain on July 4, 1776 on the banks of Pine Creek?