History & Culture in Pennsylvania

A sacred collection of indigenous rock art.

This large stone residence served as a field hospital during the Battle of Gettysburg between stints as a tavern.

Abandoned blast furnaces are an enduring reminder of Scranton's once booming iron business.

One of the world's oldest continually operating bookstores.

In use from 1742 to 1910, only flat headstones were allowed in this cemetery.

While seemingly a cruel joke, this bench actually honors an esteemed member of the community who passed away in 2006.

A full-service gas station known as the oldest in America.

Long before the Battle of Gettysburg occurred, dinosaurs roamed the area and left their footprints on this bridge.

The last funhouse of its kind, where guests enter through the mouth of an 80-year-old blue whale.

The lasting remains of the region's once booming cement industry.

A well-preserved example of an early industrial operation in the northeastern United States.

The first marker along the famous boundary.

Political activist and writer Thomas Paine once lodged at this location.

Believed to be the birthplace of the United States Marine Corps.

Hidden behind an empty field resides this early 19th-century cemetery.

One of the few remaining covered bridges in Lancaster County.