Portal:Pennsylvania/Did you know/8
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- ... that Eagle Grange No. 1 (pictured) in Clinton Township, Lycoming County was the first grange to be established in Pennsylvania?
- ... that Madame Montour, of Native American and French Canadian heritage, was paid the same as a man when she worked as a translator for the colonial governments of New York and Pennsylvania in the first half of the 18th century?
- ... that in the Big Runaway during the American Revolution in Pennsylvania in 1778, Rachel Silverthorn rode to warn settlers on Muncy Creek of impending attack when no man would?
- ... that Shikellamy, an Oneida chief, was an emissary between the Iroquois and colonial government of Pennsylvania for nearly twenty years and helped negotiate several treaties?
- … that St. Stanislaus Kostka Church is one of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's oldest churches and a prime example of the Polish Cathedral-style?
