Jean-Paul Benowitz's Elizabethtown (Images of America) PDF

By Jean-Paul Benowitz

Settled in 1708 and included as a borough in 1827, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, is found 5 miles from the Susquehanna River in Lancaster County, 20 miles from either the county seat Lancaster urban, to the east, and Harrisburg, the nation capital, to the west. With its previous Peter's street, Elizabethtown performed a tremendous function within the westward growth of the country in the course of the 18th and nineteenth centuries. development at the first railroad all started in 1834, and Elizabethtown is still a strategic cease at the Amtrak Keystone line among Harrisburg and Philadelphia. besides its proximity to Hershey, Pennsylvania, Elizabethtown has been domestic to a Mars, Inc., confectionery plant on the grounds that 1970 (formerly Klein's Chocolate corporation, integrated in 1914). Elizabethtown collage used to be based in 1899, and the Masonic Village in 1910. The Pennsylvania country medical institution for Crippled childrens opened in 1929, later changing into the Pennsylvania division of Corrections education Academy in 1991.

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