Portal:Pennsylvania/Did you know/25




 * ... that the State Capitol of Pennsylvania (pictured) is the third capitol building to be in Harrisburg, after the first one burned down in 1897 and the second was deemed "ugly" by its designer?
 * ... that Harriman Historic District in Bristol, Pennsylvania, originally built to house workers of the Merchant Shipbuilding Corporation, was the largest single housing project undertaken by the EFC in World War I?
 * ... that before its removal, Pennsylvania Route 963 was the easternmost state traffic route in Pennsylvania?
 * ... that Upper Pine Bottom Run in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, was home to an iron furnace and sawmills in the 19th century, but today is home to state forest land and the 5 acre Upper Pine Bottom State Park?
 * ... that the tollbooths of the 19th-century turnpike that followed Pennsylvania Route 171 were torn down by citizens?