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This council changed its name in 1995 to the Pennsylvania Dutch Council and is headquartered in Lancaster. In 1972, the Washington Trail Council , Colonel Drake Council and Custaloga Council merged to form the current French Creek Council, headquartered in Erie.
Pennsylvania Dutchlander [1][2][3] The Pennsylvania Dutch Country (Pennsylvania Dutch: Pennsylvanie Deitschland), or Pennsylvania Dutchland, [4][5] is a region of German Pennsylvania spanning the Delaware Valley and South Central and Northeastern regions of Pennsylvania. By the American Revolution in the 18th century, the region had a high ...
The Pennsylvania Dutch live primarily in the Delaware Valley and in the Pennsylvania Dutch Country, a large area that includes South Central Pennsylvania, in the area stretching in an arc from Bethlehem and Allentown in the Lehigh Valley westward through Reading, Lebanon, and Lancaster to York and Chambersburg.
Local councils of the Boy Scouts of America The Ideal Scout, a statue by R. Tait McKenzie in front of the Bruce S. Marks Scout Resource Center, the former headquarters of the Cradle of Liberty Council in Philadelphia Scouting portal The program of the Boy Scouts of America is administered through 272 local councils, with each council covering a geographic area that may vary from a single city ...
Pennsylvania Dutch is mainly derived from Palatine German, spoken by 2,400,000 Germans in the Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region, a region almost identical to the historical Palatinate. [11] There are similarities between the German dialect that is still spoken in this small part of southwestern Germany and Pennsylvania Dutch.
Peter Zug. Peter J. Zug (born November 11, 1958) is an American politician who served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, representing the 102nd district from 1993 to 2006. Zug graduated from Eastern Lebanon County High School in 1976, and he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from Kutztown University of ...
Pennsylvania Dutch English is a dialect of English that has been influenced by the Pennsylvania Dutch language. It is largely spoken in South Central Pennsylvania, both by people who are monolingual in English and bilingual in Pennsylvania Dutch and English. The dialect has been dying out, as non-Amish younger Pennsylvania Germans tend to speak ...
The Fancy Dutch (German: Hoch Deutsche), also known as the High Dutch, and historically as the Pennsylvania High Germans (German: Pennsylvanisch Hoch Deutsche), are the Pennsylvania Dutch who do not belong to Plain Dutch sects. [1][2][3][4] Unlike the Amish, the conservative Dunkards, or Old Order Mennonites, they do not wear plain clothing ...