Information on Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn, an English Quaker in the seventeenth century and is one of the thirteen original states in the USA. There are certainly woods in Pennsylvania (particularly in the Allegheny National Forest in the north), but also a great deal more besides in this diverse state, which spans more than 300 miles from Delaware Bay to the Great Lakes.
The majority of Pennsylvania's population is in the eastern city of Philadelphia, where the nation was shaped by America's founding fathers after independence and the state is one of the most historically significant in the country. The Liberty Bell seldom tolls today, but it draws millions of visitors annually to the city's Historic Independence National Park.
Pittsburg is another main city in Pennsylvania, which has been redeveloped so the smoke belching steel mills of the early twentieth century have witnessed some urban redevelopment that highlights the area's natural beauty.
Pennsylvania also offers everything from family style resorts, honeymoon retreats, ski-lodges, an eclectic mix of architecture, scrumptious home-style fare, historic treasures, panoramic cityscapes, pastoral pleasure, artists' colonies and country inns. Whatever a visitor wants out of a sojourn in this state, he or she is bound to find. Even chocolate lovers will discover paradise here, for this is the location of Hershey, home of the world-famous Hershey Bar, which offers up its favourite Chocolate World attraction for the tasting.
Harrisburg is the State capital of Pennsylvania and is home to a picturesque capitol building and impressive State Museum, covering Pennsylvania's 300-year history, and the National Civil War Museum, which focuses on the human side of the conflict.
