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  Lower Allen Township, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lower Allen Township is a township in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States.
In the township the population was spread out with 15.4% under the age of 18, 10.0% from 18 to 24, 33.5% from 25 to 44, 21.5% from 45 to 64, and 19.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a household in the township was $46,172, and the median income for a family was $57,973.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lower_Allen_Township,_Pennsylvania   (368 words)

  
 Incorporated District, Boroughs, and Townships in the County of Philadelphia, 1854
A township in the extreme northeastern part of the county of Philadelphia; bounded on the east and northeast by Poquessing Creek and Bucks county; on the northwest by Montgomery county; and on the west and southwest by the township of Moreland.
The township was bounded on the northwest and northeast by Springfield township, Montgomery county; on the northeast partly by Bristol township; on the southeast by Penn township and Roxborough.
In 1854 the township or Unincorporated Northern Liberties was the space of land north of Kensington, west of Richmond and Aramingo, and a portion of Frankford, south of a portion of Oxford and Bristol townships, and east of Penn township.
www.ushistory.org /philadelphia/incorporated.html   (3995 words)

  
 History of Lancaster County Townships
The principal mineral constituents of the soil of the lower Lancaster county are silica, clay.
C.H.S. Fulton township, Lancaster county, is bounded on the north by Drumore, east by Little Britain and the Octoraro, west by the Susquehanna, on the south by Cecil county Maryland.
The principal ones are the Conowingo, rising in Providence township, flowing southward, passing through Fulton from north to southward, emptying into the Susquehanna at the village of the same name in Maryland; and Peters creek, named after an early settler, rising in Drumore township and finding an outlet in the river, near Peach Bottom.
www.pa-roots.com /~lancaster/maps/townshiphistory.html   (2558 words)

  
 Pennsylvania Forts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
It was a palisaded earthen fort, roughly star-shaped, with three blockhouses and a water battery.
Near here at the mouth of Frankford Creek a chain was placed across the river to impede Patriot naval attacks on the city.
A 32-feet square palisade with four half-bastions, around a log house used by the Pennsylvania colonial militia as a subpost of Fort Lebanon.
www.geocities.com /naforts/pa.html   (2142 words)

  
 Philly H2O: Frankford Watershed Timeline
On August 18, 1932, “flood waters of Frankford Creek cut a channel through land of American Pile Fabric Co. north of dam and west of Wingohocking Street.” In a flood on July 2 and 3, 1933, “fifteen feet of the dam across Frankford Creek west of Wingohocking Street failed.
A series of newspaper articles in 1899 highlighted “the increasing unsanitary condition of Frankford and Little Tacony Creeks, by reason of the extension of branch sewers in Frankford” that emptied their sewage into these creeks; and while the public was promised some solution, no work was yet undertaken.
A meter has been installed for measuring the sewage entering the City of Philadelphia from Cheltenham Township, as provided for in the agreement entered into in 1923, by which the City of Philadelphia conveys and treats the sewage of Cheltenham township at the cost provided for in the agreement.
www.phillyh2o.org /backpages/Frankford_Timeline.htm   (3367 words)

  
 Philly H2O: Pennypack Creek 1911
Lower Dublin was one of the townships in Philadelphia County before the City of Philadelphia absorbed the County under the Act of Consolidation in 1854.
Thus the land in Lower Dublin remained farm-land--most of it is still farm-land---and the township is to-day one of the least developed portions of our great city.
This lower part was first held in the name of Eleanor Holme, Thomas Holme's daughter, but before his death she transferred it back to her father.
www.phillyh2o.org /backpages/pennypack1911.htm   (6596 words)

  
 Glimpses of Lower Merion
In 1691, Thomas Lloyd, Deputy Governor of Pennsylvania, deeded to Edward Rees 125 acres, "scituate and being between the Township of Haverford and Meirion," and bounded south-south-east "with Merion Tract." This land lay on both sides of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Wynnewood.
This constituted the original township of Merioneth, or Merion, of which one fourth, or 612 1/2 acres, was laid out to Katherine Thomas, in right of John Thomas, at the upper end of the tract, adjoining her later purchase from Joseph Wood.
Robert was Constable of Lower Merion in 1730 and 1737, and Road Overseer, 1730 and 1742.
www.lowermerionhistory.org /texts/barker.html   (12958 words)

  
 Bridging The Past To The Future
On March 24,1803, the Frankford and Bristol Turnpike Company was chartered to the complete the road to the Morrisville Ferry.
Lower Dublin Township was north of Township Line Road - now Cottman Avenue - from the River to the County Line, and north to Byberry and Moreland Townships.
The line was begun in 1868 and was known as the Frankford and Bustleton Railroad.
balford.com /fopp/fophist3.html   (1991 words)

  
 A Brief History of Philadelphia
Some of these also became absorbed in the extending streets of the congeries of towns of which Philadelphia was composed, and in 1854 they were all consolidated under one municipal government, the boundaries of which are coincident with those of the old county of Philadelphia.
The borough of Frankford, Germantown, Manayunk, Whitehall, Bridesburg and Aramingo were deprived of their franchises.
The townships of Passyunk, Blockley, Kingsessing, Roxborough, Germantown, Bristol, Oxford, Lower Dublin, Moreland, Northern Liberties (unincorporated), Byberry, Delaware, and Penn were abolished, and all the franchises and property of these governments transferred to the city of Philadelphia.
www.ushistory.org /philadelphia/philadelphia.html   (1377 words)

  
 Radnor Township's Loose Cannan | Philly Future - Philadelphia Blogs - The News YOU Write
The second count states the township violated Pennsylvania's Sunshine Act, which regulates public meetings and records, when it waived $800,000 in fees for the school board for construction of the middle school without discussing it in a public meeting.
Dave Bashore, the township manager, said he could not speak at length because of the pending suit, but released a statement from the township and commissioners' President Harry G. Mahoney.
"A Radnor Township commissioner has sued the board of commissioners and the school board, asking that the township's waiver of $800,000 in construction fees for a new middle school be voided and that contracts for the new township building be rebid.
www.phillyfuture.org /node/2783   (1015 words)

  
 Pennsylvania
Large 8 1/2 x 11 maps that were originally published in 1920 by the PA Land Office Bureau, this collection of maps show where the boundary lines were throughout the history of PA. Soft, 16 pp.
THE PENNSYLVANIA MILITIA IN 1777, by H. Roach (1964).
Names of persons to, and for whom, land was either warranted or surveyed in all the volumes in the possession of the City Archives, in Phila., Pa. Names are alpha.
www.netusa1.net /~selbypub/pa.htm   (565 words)

  
 The Sentinel Online : Archives : Sports
A routine assessment of the earthen embankment by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission last week revealed small seeps in the dam's spillway, state officials say.
The lake will be lowered in a controlled manner to limit downstream disturbance to Opossum Creek.
Wednesday's work, for instance, is expected to lower the lake by only about six inches.
www.cumberlink.com /articles/2005/09/23/sports/sports06.txt   (545 words)

  
 FRANKFORD TERMINAL BLOG: SEPTA News, Info, Rumors, etc.
In fact, within a year, Pennsylvania could be the nation's leading producer of biodiesel, according to the state Department of Environmental Protection.
The Bucks County TMA is planning to introduce a new shuttle service in the Bensalem Township area on September 11.
At least when the Frankford side of the El underwent major shutdowns on weekends, riders connecting from buses at Bridge-Pratt were able to get a close to non-stop ride to Center City (with a stop at Bridge and Torresdale) via I-95.
frankfordterminal.blogspot.com /index.html   (8105 words)

  
 PA Bulletin, Doc. No. 02-234
The respondent was duly notified that if acceptable evidence of insurance or an answer was not filed, the Bureau would request that the Secretary of the Commission revoke the certificate of public convenience issued to the respondent at A-00116716.
The complaint and notice were published in the December 22, 2001 issue of the Pennsylvania Bulletin; to date, more than twenty (20) days later, neither evidence of insurance nor an answer to the complaint has been filed.
Therefore, the allegation in the complaint is deemed to be admitted.
www.pabulletin.com /secure/data/vol32/32-6/234.html   (548 words)

  
 Keystone Mercy Health Plan - Frankford Hospital Frankford Campus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Pennsylvania Medical Assistance, Medicaid, Managed Care Health Plan, Keystone Mercy Health Plan, Philadelphia, PA, A Managed Healthcare Organization, Serving Medical Assistance recipients in Southeastern Pennsylvania, Bucks County, Chester County, Delaware County, Montgomery County, Philadelphia County.
The Frankford Campus is accessible by SEPTA bus or elevated train.
Bus routes serving the bridge Street Terminal are the 3, 5, 8, 14, 19, 20, 24, 58, 66, 73, 84, 89, J, K and R. The 3 or 5 bus will drop passengers directly in front of the Frankford Campus.
www.keystonemercy.com /health/hospitals/frankford_frankford.asp   (386 words)

  
 Lower Frankford, PA (Cumberland County) - township housing guide - ePodunk
Lower Frankford, PA (Cumberland County) - township housing guide - ePodunk
Pennsylvania > All counties > Cumberland County > Lower Frankford Township
Growth trend: According to Census Bureau estimates, the population of Cumberland County increased by 2.9% from 2000 to 2003.
www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/movInfo.php?locIndex=276081   (224 words)

  
 Lower Frankford township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (PA) Detailed Profile
Back to: Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (PA), All US cities.
Churches in Lower Frankford township include: Opossum Hill Union Church, Stone Church.
64% of Lower Frankford township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
www.city-data.com /township/Lower-Frankford-Cumberland-PA.html   (112 words)

  
 Opossum Lake Information Paper
The Opossum Lake Dam consists of an earth embankment approximately 310 feet long with a maximum height of 38 feet from the downstream toe and a crest width of 12 feet.
The seepage stopped when the lake was lowered to an elevation ranging from 6 to 8 feet below normal pool.
On October 6, 2005 the PFBC drilled seven ten inch cores in the spillway to evaluate the sub-base beneath the spillway slabs.
www.fish.state.pa.us /water/lakes/opossum_lk/00opossum_info_paper.htm   (1079 words)

  
 The Sentinel Online - Welcome to Shippensburg
Southampton Township Park, Cumberland County — on Airport Road, has two pavilions and youth playground, a paved half-mile track, two basketball courts, a sand volleyball court, a fitness course, two soccer fields, a 1.5 mile hiking trail and picnic area.
Opossum Lake — recently lowered by 14 feet, this Lower Frankford Township, Cumberland County, lake was restored in April to fishing season, sizes and creel limits while options are explored for building a new dam.
The trail enters Pennsylvania from the north at the Delaware Water Gap and follows the eastern rim of the Alleghenies until it crosses the Cumberland Valley east of Carlisle and follows Children’s Lake in Boiling Springs next to a regional office of the Appalachian Trail Conservancy.
www.cumberlink.com /welcome_ship/recreation.php   (919 words)

  
 Case #940   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
PENNSYLVANIA CRIME STOPPERS IS OFFERING A CASH REWARD OF UP TO The Pennsylvania State Police at Carlisle are investigating a series of Burglaries; all of which had the same method of operation (MO).
One of the burglaries occurred during the overnight hours on or about June 14-15, 2003, in the 300 block of Opossum Lake Road in Lower Frankford Township, Cumberland County.
They stole rifles and shotguns, or some type of handguns and, in some cases they stole the ammunition along with the weapons.
www.pacrimestoppers.org /fugitive/940.htm   (175 words)

  
 Old York Road Historical Society
Baist's Atlas of the Properties Along the North Pennsylvania, Bound Brook and Pennsylvania Railroads, G. Wm.
Atlas of Cheltenham, Abington and Springfield Townships, Montgomery County, Penna., A. Mueller & Co., 1897
Map of the Township of Oxford, Boroughs of Frankford and Bridesburg, with Parts of Bristol, N. Liberties and Cheltenham Townships, M. Dripps, 1849
www.oyrhs.org /html/atlasmaps.htm   (883 words)

  
 GreenWorks Gazette
Taking advantage of the resources available, Dr. Zimmerman is working toward the restoration and protection of Pennsylvania's environment.
Through a $19,000 Growing Greener grant, Lower Allen Township, Cumberland County, formed the Yellow Breeches Watershed Alliance to perform a comprehensive assessment of that watershed.
Following their lead, we can ensure that Pennsylvania grows greener for years to come.
www.greenworks.tv /gazette/page4.htm   (750 words)

  
 Bucks County, Pennsylvania Quick Facts
Government: Bucks County is a class 2A county compromised of 23 boroughs and 31 townships.
Pennsbury Manor, located in Falls Township, is a reproduction of William Penn's summer estate along the banks of the Delaware River.
Public Transportation — The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority provides daily bus service on the nine routes ond four commuter railroad lines in the county.
www.buckscounty.net /quickfacts.html   (608 words)

  
 Cumberland County Pennsylvania
Johan Jacob Wolf III is born, son of German immigrants Johan Jacob Wolf II and Anna Margaret Schnug, in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
Johannes Wolf is born, son of German immigrants Johan Jacob Wolf II and Anna Margaret Schnug, in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
Sarah Wolf is born, seventh child of John Wolf and Mary Hawk, in East Pennsborough Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, future wife of George Kipp, Jr.
www.rook.org /places/pa/cumberlandcopa.html   (208 words)

  
 Census 2000 Demographic Profiles
Upper St. Clair township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (0604200379274.pdf)
Lower Mount Bethel township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania (0604209545016.pdf)
Upper Mount Bethel township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania (0604209579184.pdf)
www.pittsburghlive.com /pages/pdf/census   (40 words)

  
 Cumberland County Conservation District
Pennsylvania's Dirt & Gravel Road Maintenance Program is a pollution prevention program based on local control.
Signed into law in April 1997, as Section 9106 of the PA Vehicle Code, the programs purpose is to fund safe, efficient and environmentally sound maintenance of dirt & gravel roads which have been identified as sources of dust & sedimentation pollution.
Cooke Township officials accepting check from Conservation District, Commissioner Earl Keller and State Representative Al Masland
www.cumberlandcd.com /dgr.html   (237 words)

  
 Lower Merion Township: The New Coatesville? | Philly Future - Philadelphia Blogs - The News YOU Write
Lower Merion taxpayers, if Lower Merion persists in their eminent domain warfare say a big hello to your taxpaying future because, this is a taxpayer’s burden, these municipal quagmires of bad judgement and greed.
In Lower Merion, the bills as per the unofficial tabs folks like the newspapers are keeping indicate that Lower Merion has spent in EXCESS of ONE MILLION DOLLARS on justifying eminent domain in Ardmore, and they have YET to rack up the legal fees…how much is that pricey outside counsel going to cost?
Taxpayers in Lower Merion had best perk up, Coatesville’s woes as reported today is as clear a crystal ball as can be had.
www.phillyfuture.org /node/1562   (739 words)

  
 County Political Subdivisions
The first twelve entries list the sources and dates of the earliest mentions in official local records of the existence of Philadelphia County's initial township divisions.
Tacony: While indicated as a possible township on some early maps, Tacony is not mentioned in court records, or those of the Assembly after 1700.
Part of the township recognized for certain governmental functions but not incorporated
www.phila.gov /phils/Docs/Inventor/graphics/wards/wards1.htm   (294 words)

  
 Tuscarora State Forest, Doubling Gap Site
Volunteers from the Upper Frankford Fire Department supplied a truck to winch the tires from the steeper slope.
Since the cleanup, one tire and one bag of trash have been dumped and removed by local volunteers to avoid attracting additional trash.
Situated in Lower Mifflin Township, Cumberland County, Doubling Gap is one of ten pilot sites cleaned during 2000 and one of two cleaned in the Tuscarora State Forest.
www.cleanpaforests.org /dgap.html   (282 words)

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