Portal:Pennsylvania/Did you know/16
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- ... that the Franklin County Courthouse (pictured), in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, incorporates the walls and columns left after Confederate forces burned the previous courthouse during the American Civil War?
- ... that the meandering Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad line took 77.2 miles (124.2 km) to connect Baltimore, Maryland and York, Pennsylvania although the two cities are only 45 miles (72 km) apart in a straight line?
- ... that despite being the first hot blast iron furnace in Centre County, Pennsylvania, Bellefonte Furnace was idle for more than six of its first ten years of existence?
- ... that the Pond Eddy Bridge, built in 1904, is the only artery to access 22 homes in Pennsylvania?
- ... that Frank W. Preston invented the furnace which made Corelle glassware possible and worked to establish Moraine State Park in Pennsylvania?