Portal : Pennsylvania/Did you know/37
... that unlike most hotels from the same period, the Eagle Hotel (pictured) , built in 1826 in Waterford, Pennsylvania , has quoining ?
... that Anthony Sadowski , after escaping captivity in the Great Northern War in 1704, came to America and helped Daniel Boone 's father found Amity Township , Pennsylvania ?
... that the State of Pennsylvania and its twin sister, the State of Delaware , were both the first steamboats to make a live radio broadcast and to show movies?
... that in 2001, James Hedges of Thompson Township, Fulton County, Pennsylvania , became the first Prohibition Party member elected in a partisan election since 1959?
... that the Sturgeon House in Fairview is a rare example of a saltbox house in northwestern Pennsylvania ?