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Pennsylvania Postcards

Each week, we share interesting tidbits about our state, on a variety of topics.

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  • It took a young chemist to visit Pennsylvania for petroleum jelly to have been invented.
  • PA loves its sports, but it wasn't always that way.
  • On Williamsport's famous millionaires row lived someone who was said to be the wealthiest woman in the world in her day
  • In Wilkes-Barre, an idea was born that would eventually become Planter's peanuts.
  • Pennsylvania has four lighthouses still standing, three of which are along Lake Erie.
  • The Mifflinburg Buggy Museum preserves an intact 19th century carriage factory
  • It turns out an American dessert favorite got its start in the Keystone State.
  • The Hiawatha was a double-decker steam-powered paddle wheeler that used to carry Sunday picnic-ers from Williamsport to Sylvan Dell Park.
  • Several municipalities claim to have started Memorial Day. One – is Boalsburg, just outside State College in Centre County.
  • There is a giant anchor at an intersection in Blakely, and it’s there in honor of the borough’s namesake.