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Introduce your family to your roots where generations of immigrants from all over the world have built unique Pennsylvania Colony History and heroic events that have created Pennsylvania nickname "The Keystone State".
Take your time exploring the Pennsylvania Mountains and discover a lot of Pennsylvania History that is hard to find in the history books.
Allow me to guide you through the Allegheny Mountains Historical Sites, Legends, and Pennsylvania National Landmarks. Many of these landmarks are rarely found by tourists.
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Historical and National
Pennsylvania Landmarks
- Discover the historic Allegheny Portage Railroad , high atop the Alleghenies.
- Visit The World Famous Horseshoe Curve and see all the improvements over the years. Do you realize it recently celebrated its 150th birthday?
- Would you believe little Altoona, PA is home to America's Oldest Gasoline Station?
- Take a ride on The Worlds Oldest Wooden Roller Coater that is still in operation.
- Spend an evening at The Historic Altoona PA Mishler Theatre still offering live entertainment. The community theater recently celebrated it's 100th Anniversary!
- Travel to the top of the Alleghenies and ride the Johnstown Incline Plane.
- Tour the Historic Bakers Mansion still displaying the original furniture.
- Enjoy a scenic ride to Cresson Summit and visit The Portage Railroad.
- The Historic Canal Basin was an historic pathway in the early 1700s.
- Visit Historic Pennsylvania Landmark Fort Roberdeau for a walk back in history where lengends were made.
- See one of the first Taverns built in Blair County, you can still enjoy dinner and entertainment at the U.S. Hotel. also known as the haunted hotel!
- Visit one most Catholic towns in America. Discover how a Russian Prince started a Catholic Colony in 1795.
- See the enchanted Unknown Jewel of The Alleghenies Mount Assisi. This Pennsylvania Historical Site dates back to 1799.
- Explore deep in the forest of the Allegheny Mountains and discover the Jewel of the Commonwealth, Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater.
- Just 7 miles from Fallingwater is another one of Frank Lloyd Wright Home Designs - Kentuck Knob.
- Enjoy fine dining at the Historic Jean Bonnet Tavern. Take a step back in time and experience this Pennsylvania Colonial History dates from the 1700s. This popular tavern was once a French Fort and well known for it's ghostly tales.
- Known as the Jewel Of Pennsylvania the PA Grand Canyon a National Natural Landmark offers a unique family get-away.
- Take an historical ride on a Steam Locomotive at East Broad Top Railroad another PA National Landmark.
- I'll bet you'll be surprised to know that Kennywood Park was declared a National Landmark in 1987
This list is just the beginning of the Pennsylvania History I want to share with you. You'll learn all about the Pennsylvania Colony History, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and how immigrants from all over the world settled in the Pennsylvania Mountains.
I'll be adding more Pennsylvania Attractions as my time permits. In the meantime, read the pages and learn the history behind these Pennsylvania National Landmarks before you travel through the mountains. You'll quickly discover once your start exploring many regions actually date back to times when the area was nothing more than a frontier land.
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The Allegheny Mountain Legends Are Historic
As you explore the Allegheny Mountains you will notice there are many Pennsylvania National Landmarks that no longer exist. Like The Famous Ship Hotel, located on the Historic Lincoln Highway. People from all over the country would travel to see the famous view and spend the night located at one of the highest Pennsylvania Mountain peaks. You can still visit the site the famous ship stood on. The view alone is worth the trip.
The famous Pennsylvania Railroad is now the Norfolk Southern Railroad. When you visit Altoona, PA you can still see the old shops and railroad tracks. Visit the Railroaders Memorial Museum and interact in the history of Altoona and surrounding areas. You can visit many PA Memorials and learn the Pennsylvania History while your family interacts with the many Pennsylvania Museums and Memorials.
Give your family a vacation that will not only entertain them but will also educate them about the Pennsylvania Railroad and how it all connects to the history of the United States. They'll be having so much fun they won't even suspect they're getting and education.
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