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Old 08-15-2015, 09:27 AM
 
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What towns are there in PA that have great active town squares? I'm sort of basing my idea off of Gilmore Girls show. Maybe a gazebo or big green space with stores lined around the square. Where festivities are held and people go walk and shop.
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Old 08-15-2015, 10:02 AM
 
Location: Marshall-Shadeland, Pittsburgh, PA
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Ligonier.
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Old 08-15-2015, 10:52 AM
 
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I think of that as a more New England kind of thing. I can't think of any PA town that we've lived in or near that had that. Not that I've lived in the whole state, but we've lived in four of the counties.
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Old 08-15-2015, 02:56 PM
 
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Wellsboro
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Old 08-15-2015, 04:41 PM
 
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Wellsboro is a pretty town! http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/30/re...pagewanted=all
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Old 08-16-2015, 10:31 AM
 
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I think of that as a more New England kind of thing. I can't think of any PA town that we've lived in or near that had that. Not that I've lived in the whole state, but we've lived in four of the counties.
I have always thought that Ligonier felt very New Englandy.
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Old 08-16-2015, 12:49 PM
 
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North East and Waterford in Erie County, Titusville in Crawford County. Tionesta has a newer market square in the middle of town.
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Old 08-16-2015, 11:32 PM
 
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Off the top of my head, the following towns have downtown squares that could be called active, more or less:

Erie
Johnstown
Pittsburgh (Market Square)
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Old 08-17-2015, 12:44 PM
 
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Wellsboro uses the New England-ish terminology "Green," as opposed to the "diamond" in Ligonier (and other Western PA communities). Although Wellsboro was deliberately sited to minimize the influence of the New England stock that originally settled Tioga Twp that became Tioga Cty, clearly they had enough influence on the town layout to carry forward the New England term. Although there are many festivals, etc. that use the Green not many stores directly front it but along the boulevard style Main Street. That likewise seems New England style where the Green has the churches or maybe the courthouse. Stores fronting the square seems to me to be more southern PA (on a typically smaller square that's usually nowadays just mashed into an intersection as in Harrisburg, or at best has a monument in the middle as in New Bloomfield or Mount Pleasant). Or in the Midwest I've seen large squares of the size of Wellsboro's, with stores fronting the square. That could be a combination of the New England and PA prototypes, or may even be of Hispanic derivation such as in Santa Fe, NM.
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Old 08-17-2015, 01:34 PM
 
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Carlisle might be an intermediate example
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