Portal : Pennsylvania/Did you know/4
... that Lyman Run State Park (pictured) in Pennsylvania was the site of logging operations, a Civilian Conservation Corps camp, and a World War II prisoner-of-war camp before becoming a Pennsylvania state park in 1951?
... that the Jersey Shore, Pine Creek and Buffalo Railway , once promoted to connect the Pennsylvania–New York oil fields with New York City , instead became part of the New York Central's line to the coal mines around Clearfield, Pennsylvania ?
… that Colonel Denning State Park , which opened in Pennsylvania in 1936, is named for an American Revolutionary War hero, Colonel William Denning, who was a sergeant not a colonel ?
… that Wyoming Seminary , a private school in Kingston, Pennsylvania , participated in the first nighttime American football game in 1892?
… that Frances Slocum State Park in Pennsylvania is named for a woman captured by the Lenape at age 5, who permanently lived with Native Americans despite reuniting with her family 59 years later?