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MOST municipalities have a marker that states who or what was famous for your area.
There are, at least, 3 of them in a one mile radius of my home. Here they are in my words and in no particular order.
James O. Saylor was a pioneer in the cement industry. He was the first person to make portland cement in the United States in 1871.
In my area, the cement industry was possibly the largest business for about 100 years, from the late 19th to the late 20th century.
George Wolf was the 7th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1829-1835.
Fort Deshler was a stone structure that was built in 1760. It protected settlers of the area during the French and Indian War.
Are there any historical landmarks in your area? Who or what is your municipality famous for?
The 19 immigrants were left locked in the back of a truck, abandoned by its driver, and they died from the suffocating heat inside. People leave water and toys for the children at the site.
The town I live in was the site of a fort which housed 40 Connecticut settlers. There was a famous battle, the Battle of Wyoming (the state of Wyoming took its name from this area of Pennsylvania), in which many of the settlers were captured and slain, allegedly by a native American woman named Queen Esther.
There is an historical marker at the site of the bloody rock where the killings took place.
We have a Meeting House that is on the National Register of Historic Places. It is still in use as a tourist attraction. I attended a string concert presented by a Summer music program's students. The pews are incredibly uncomfortable, but I suppose that's part of what made the Puritans Puritans.
The Yankee Pennamite wars were fought in this immediate area.
According to what I was told when I moved here, I live in what was the orchard of the fort.
I'm in Dayton, Ohio and there are a lot of people and things from Dayton, from Martin Sheen to Patterson and the NCR company; inventor Charles Kettering; the founder of Iams dog food; the Wright Bros, etc. etc. The list is quite substantial.
theatergypsy - PA does have alot of history. I just passed through Honesdale, in Wayne County, yesterday. They claim to be the home of the American railroad.
The 19 immigrants were left locked in the back of a truck, abandoned by its driver, and they died from the suffocating heat inside. People leave water and toys for the children at the site.
I remember that.
A lot of them die in the southwest desert trying to escape Mexico into the US too.
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