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In 1983, as Penn State football coach Joe Paterno was being honored for his first national championship, he gave a speech challenging the university's board of trustees to make Penn State number one in academics as well as athletics. He specifically targeted the need for a top-quality library, stating, "Without a great library, you can't have a ...
Pennhurst State School and Hospital, originally known as the Eastern Pennsylvania State Institution for the Feeble-Minded and Epileptic was a state-run institution for mentally and physically disabled individuals of Southeastern Pennsylvania located in Spring City. [4] After 79 years of controversy, it closed on December 9, 1987. [5]
East Pen Island, sometimes referred to shortly as Pen Island, is one of several uninhabited Canadian arctic islands in Nunavut, Canada located within southwestern Hudson Bay.
Pennsbury Manor is the colonial estate of William Penn, founder and proprietor of the Colony of Pennsylvania, who lived there from 1699 to 1701.He left it and returned to England in 1701, where he died penniless in 1718.
Bellefonte is a borough in and the county seat of Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States.It is approximately 12 miles northeast of State College and is part of the State College, Pennsylvania metropolitan statistical area.
Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus is a commonwealth campus of the Pennsylvania State University and located in Lemont Furnace, Pennsylvania.The campus serves students from the southwestern corner of Pennsylvania covering a five-county area that includes all or parts of Fayette, Greene, Somerset, Washington, and Westmoreland counties.
The campus became a site for some classes of Penn State and was known as Penn State Ogontz, after the private school's best-known name. In 1995, this facility was renamed as Penn State Abington-Ogontz , to emphasize its relationship with the surrounding community.
Penn Estates is a census-designated place [3] located in Stroud and Pocono Townships in Monroe County in the state of Pennsylvania. The community is located northwest of the borough of East Stroudsburg. As of the 2020 census the population was 4,493 residents. [4]