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History of Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Williamsport was incorporated as a borough on March 1, 1806, and as a city on January 15, 1866. The city is the original home of Little League Baseball, founded in 1939 as a three-team league. In the late 19th century, when Williamsport was known as "The Lumber Capital of the World" because of its thriving ...
Williamsport, Pennsylvania 17703-0266. United States. Website. sungazette.com. The Williamsport Sun-Gazette is published in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, in Lycoming County. Its earliest antecedents date to 1801. As of January 1, 2016, the daily circulation of the paper was listed as 19,000 daily Monday–Saturday, with a Sunday circulation of ...
Grit is a magazine, formerly a weekly newspaper, popular in the rural U.S. during much of the 20th century. It carried the subtitle "America's Greatest Family Newspaper". In the early 1930s, it targeted small town and rural families with 14 pages plus a fiction supplement. By 1932, it had a circulation of 425,000 in 48 states, and 83% of its ...
Howard J. Lamade Stadium (pronounced "LAM-a-dee") is a baseball stadium in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Each year, along with Little League Volunteer Stadium, it hosts the Little League World Series. The playing field is two-thirds the size of a professional baseball field, with 60-foot (18.3 m) basepaths, a 46-foot (14 m) mound, and after ...
Brown Township. 3. Bridge in Lewis Township. Bridge in Lewis Township. June 22, 1988. ( #88000845) Legislative Route 41051 over Lycoming Creek. 41°26′54″N 76°58′52″W.
Williamsport is a city in and the county seat of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, United States. [7] As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 27,754. It is the principal city of the Williamsport Metropolitan Statistical Area, which has a population of about 114,000. Williamsport is the larger principal city of the Williamsport- Lock Haven ...
Eber Culver, et al. Architectural style. Late Victorian. NRHP reference No. 85000120 [1] Added to NRHP. January 24, 1985. The Millionaire's Row Historic District is a national historic district that is located in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
Peter Herdic. Peter Herdic (1824–1888) was a lumber baron, entrepreneur, inventor, politician, and philanthropist in Victorian era Williamsport, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. He was the youngest of seven children born to Henry and Elizabeth Herdic on December 14, 1824, in Fort Plain, New York. [1]