11.20.2014 The Almshouse or Poor House predated Cedar Haven
Lebanon PA 11.20.2014: Commissioner Litz presented to wall hangings. The end of July 2014, I was sitting in former Administrator Schlegel’s office signing Warn Notices for Cedar Haven employees. Taking a break, I stood up, and walked around the office.
On the wall I noticed some interesting items. One was a September 5, 1881 “Rules of Government of the Lebanon County Almshouse,” or poorhouse, which was the precursor to Cedar Haven. Eleven rules are written.
Signed by the Directors of the Poor of Lebanon County, David Boltz, Aaron Brubacher, and Philip Shaeffer, ran a tight ship. For example, ”Whereas some slothful persons may pretend sickness or lameness, to excuse themselves from labor, such persons shall be examined by the physician, and if it appear by his report and other concurring circumstances that those persons made false excuses, they shall be punished by confinement in the cell, and fed on bread and water, until they comply, or in some other legal way, as the Directors shall determine.”
The second wall hanging is a picture by Harpels, a prominent photographer and studio in Lebanon County for many years, of the Almshouse dated 1935, probably taken in late fall or early spring when no leaves were on the trees. Surrounded by a white picket fence, a stately mansion with columns and cupolas stands as the centerpiece of the photo. Additional houses and barns, of which there appear to be three, or four, also had cupolas. A team of mules stands hitched in the lane. Grapevines were supported by a sturdier fence. One lone sole, a man in a suit and hat, stands in a field, but stories that I heard had workers in the fields tending to crops for their sustenance.
Since the current Board of Commissioners sat as the Board of Cedar Haven, I wondered if Boltz, Brubacher, and Shaeffer were the first county commissioners who took care of the poor, and Kathy Kirby assisted by contacting the Lebanon County Historical Society. A reply from Wes Schwenk, Archivist, revealed, “Beginning in 1876, it was decided that elected commissioners would take office all at the same time and they would serve three year terms from that point onward. By 1879, HH Ehrman, George W Walker, and Samuel Witmoyer took on their roles as county commissioners. When 1882 came around new officials were elected. The three names I mentioned previously would have been in office during 1881.”
Not wanting these wall hangings to disappear, Administrator Marcia Krause agreed to box them, and bring them to the courthouse. Today, I share these historical wall hangings with you, and ask that they be placed on the walls of the commissioner’s office for all to see and appreciate our county’s history.
Respectfully,
Commissioner Jo Ellen Litz
San Giorgio Macaroni Company fire
San Giorgio Macaroni Company was founded in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, in 1914 by a young Italian immigrant named Girolama Guerrisi. Guerrisi came to the United States when he was 22 years old and worked in the fruit business. Within 2 years he bought the Keystone Macaroni Company in Lebanon. He renamed it San Giorgio. It operated as a regional brand until it was acquired by Hershey in 1966.
On October 25, 1960 the San Giorgio Macaroni Plant ( known as the maci to the workers there) caught fire. It is unknown if anyone died or how the fire started.
These's are photo's of the plant after the fire, taken by my grandmother who worked at the plant at that time.
The 2008 Lebanon Area Fair
I hope every county all across the United States holds an annual 4-H fair. The sights, sounds and smells of a fair are a wonderful celebration of the down-home goodness of the people who live there. Lebanon County Pennsylvania held it's county fair last week and it was a marvelous addition to the summer of 2008. Here's to everyone who helped make it a success! Thank you!
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Allentown, Pennsylvania | Wikipedia audio article
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Allentown, Pennsylvania
00:01:55 1 History
00:02:03 1.1 Origins
00:03:39 1.2 Founding
00:06:28 1.3 American Revolutionary War
00:09:11 1.3.1 Liberty Bell
00:11:06 1.4 Early Allentown
00:15:11 1.5 Civil War
00:17:57 1.5.1 47th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
00:19:54 1.6 Industrialization
00:27:59 1.7 Late 20th century
00:31:47 1.8 21st century
00:33:35 2 Geography
00:33:44 2.1 Topography
00:35:05 2.2 Cityscape and neighborhoods
00:37:41 2.2.1 Architecture
00:40:36 2.3 Climate
00:42:13 3 Demographics
00:45:46 3.1 Crime
00:46:24 4 Economy
00:47:32 5 Arts and culture
00:47:41 5.1 Museums and cultural organizations
00:47:51 5.2 Festivals
00:48:41 5.3 Arts and entertainment
00:50:52 5.4 Landmarks and popular locations
00:51:23 5.5 Cuisine
00:52:50 6 Sports
00:55:07 7 Parks and recreation
00:56:54 8 Government
00:58:21 9 Education
00:58:30 9.1 Primary and secondary education
01:02:18 9.2 Colleges and universities
01:03:04 10 Media
01:04:40 11 Infrastructure
01:04:49 11.1 Transportation
01:04:57 11.1.1 Roads and buses
01:06:36 11.1.2 Rail
01:08:12 11.1.3 Airports
01:08:50 11.2 Utilities
01:09:35 11.3 Health care
01:10:03 11.4 Fire department
01:10:19 12 Notable people
01:14:31 13 In popular culture
01:15:18 14 See also
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Allentown (Pennsylvania Dutch: Allenschteddel) is a city located in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is Pennsylvania's third most populous city and the 231st largest city in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 118,032 and is currently the fastest growing city in all of Pennsylvania. It is the largest city in the metropolitan area known as the Lehigh Valley, which had a population of 821,623 residents as of 2010. Allentown constitutes a portion of the New York City Combined Statistical Area and is the county seat of Lehigh County. In 2012, the city celebrated the 250th anniversary of its founding in 1762.Located on the Lehigh River, Allentown is the largest of three adjacent cities, in Northampton and Lehigh counties, that make up a region of eastern Pennsylvania known as the Lehigh Valley, the other two cities being Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and Easton, Pennsylvania. Allentown is 50 miles (80 km) north-northwest of Philadelphia, the sixth most populous city in the United States, 90 miles (140 km) east-northeast of Harrisburg, the state capital, and 90 miles (140 km) west of New York City, the nation's largest city.
The Norfolk Southern Railway's Lehigh Line (formerly the main line of the Lehigh Valley Railroad using former Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad main line trackage), runs through Allentown heading east across the Delaware River. The Norfolk Southern Railway's Reading Line runs through Allentown heading west to Reading, Pennsylvania.
Allentown was cited as a national success story in April 2016 by the Urban Land Institute for its downtown redevelopment and transformation, one of only six communities in the country to have been named as such.
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Driving on US 68 from Ohio to Paris, Kentucky
From 1926 until the late 1940s, in terms of the routing between Bowling Green and Perryville, US 68 went westward through Springfield to Bardstown, and followed U.S. Route 31E southward to near Horse Cave. US 68 then followed the current KY 218 (Charlie Moran Highway) westward into Horse Cave, and then joined U.S. Route 31W from there through Cave City to Bowling Green. US 68 moved to its current routing from Bowling Green to Perryville around 1948-49.
US 68 previously ran to Toledo, Ohio, terminating at the west approach to the High Level Bridge south of downtown, but the Toledo-Findlay segment was decommissioned in the 1950s. It also passed through Springfield, Ohio prior to its realignment onto a four-lane bypass of that city.
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Connecticut
Connecticut (/kəˈnɛtɨkət/, kuh-NET-i-kət) is the southernmost state in the northeastern region of the United States known as New England. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. Its capital city is Hartford. The state is named after the Connecticut River, a major U.S. river that approximately bisects the state. The word is derived from various anglicized spellings of an Algonquian word for long tidal river.
Connecticut is the third smallest state by area, the 29th most populous, and the fourth most densely populated of the 50 United States. Called the Constitution State, Nutmeg State, and The Land of Steady Habits, it was influential in the development of the federal government of the United States. Much of southern and western Connecticut (along with the majority of the state's population) is part of the New York metropolitan area: three of Connecticut's eight counties are statistically included in the New York City combined statistical area, which is widely referred to as the Tri-State area. Connecticut's center of population is in Cheshire, New Haven County, which is also located within the Tri-State area.
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So what I want to do today is give you a good understanding of what to expect on a driver's road test, and give you some tips on how to pass the test.
And the test is basically a series of turns, some rights, and some lefts, and then two maneuvers, a broken U-turn, and parallel parking.
So for the right turn, where we'll start, the basic idea for the right turn is that you're going to have your car over to the right side of the lane that you're on and you're going to make sure you make the turn into the right lane of the street that you're going onto. Pretty much no guesswork in a right turn. It's always the same, from right to right at all times. Right lane to right lane.
The left turn is a lot trickier. And the left turn is the one that may get you on that road test. And the reason for the left turn being trickier is because you've got some decisions to make on the left. Do I make the turn into this lane or that lane? That will be determined whether or not that's a one-way or a two-way street. So you're ability to recognize that will be crucial on your road test.
What are some of the ways you can tell? A one-way street typically will have a sign on either corner. If you see a sign it's usually a one-way. It'll have an arrow on it. Therefore, the rule of thumb on the turns being closest to the available lane, if you see the one-way sign, the turn has to go into the left lane. If the street doesn't have a sign and it has a line down the middle, you can tell by the color of the line whether or not it's a one-way or a two-way. A white line would indicate one-way street. Again, you'll make your turn onto the left side. A yellow line indicates a two-way street, which means that you've got to make the turn out to the right side of the street.
The most difficult one will be the street that doesn't have the line on it. The way you can tell on a street like that, look for the direction of the parked cars. If they're parked in opposite directions, that's going to indicate a two-way street. Remember your rule of thumb, you choose the closest available lane, and you're going to swing out to the right. This is the turn that typically tricks people the most on the road test.
Your two maneuvers are a parking, and a broken U-turn. Broken U-turn real simple, you just pull over against the curb on the right, put your indicator on. The whole idea is to take your car from the right side here, bring it across to the other side, then you're going to back up, and then you're going to go back the same way you came on that roadway.
My tip for this is when you're doing the backing part, you don't want to back up all the way to the other curb, because usually when you do that you come out on the wrong side of the street.
The other maneuver is the parallel parking. Don't worry so much about it. You get a big space to park, and as long as you look back and go back slowly, it shouldn't be a problem for you.
And that's it. That's your road test. Usually six turns, three rights, three lefts, a park, a broken U-turn, and it's over in about 10 minutes.
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Speed limits in the United States by jurisdiction | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:41 1 Alabama
00:01:54 2 Alaska
00:04:29 3 American Samoa
00:05:00 4 Arizona
00:08:38 5 Arkansas
00:12:36 6 California
00:12:45 6.1 Basic speed law
00:17:44 6.2 Speed limits
00:19:42 7 Colorado
00:21:01 7.1 Night speed limits
00:21:32 8 Connecticut
00:25:02 9 Delaware
00:28:28 10 Florida
00:32:15 11 Georgia
00:37:01 12 Guam
00:37:30 13 Hawaii
00:39:24 14 Idaho
00:41:45 15 Illinois
00:44:49 16 Indiana
00:46:39 17 Iowa
00:48:08 18 Kansas
00:50:10 19 Kentucky
00:51:38 20 Louisiana
00:53:43 20.1 Other laws
00:54:46 21 Maine
00:56:34 22 Maryland
00:59:23 23 Massachusetts
01:02:25 24 Michigan
01:08:51 25 Midway Atoll
01:09:08 26 Minnesota
01:11:00 27 Mississippi
01:14:08 28 Missouri
01:16:01 28.1 Variable speed limits
01:17:18 28.2 Exceptions to the statutory limits
01:23:00 29 Montana
01:23:29 29.1 Reasonable and prudent
01:25:12 29.2 No speed limit
01:27:44 29.3 75 and 80 mph speed limits
01:29:39 30 Nebraska
01:30:48 31 Nevada
01:35:17 32 New Hampshire
01:38:02 33 New Jersey
01:41:46 34 New Mexico
01:52:40 35 New York
01:57:50 35.1 History
01:59:48 36 North Carolina
02:07:01 36.1 60 mph speed limits
02:11:36 37 North Dakota
02:13:18 38 Northern Mariana Islands
02:13:37 39 Ohio
02:16:39 40 Oklahoma
02:17:56 41 Oregon
02:19:19 41.1 Engineering studies
02:21:42 41.2 Attempts to raise speed limits
02:24:07 41.3 School speed limits
02:25:56 42 Pennsylvania
02:35:24 43 Puerto Rico
02:36:55 44 Rhode Island
02:38:29 45 South Carolina
02:42:09 46 South Dakota
02:43:33 47 Tennessee
02:48:09 48 Texas
02:49:37 48.1 Truck speed limits
02:51:10 48.2 Night speed limits
02:51:54 48.3 Environmental speed limits
02:55:19 48.4 Elimination of Dallas-Fort Worth region environmental speed limits
02:56:44 48.5 75 mph limits
02:58:22 48.6 80 and 85 mph limits
03:01:58 49 US Virgin Islands
03:03:00 50 Utah
03:05:06 50.1 80 mph speed limit
03:08:02 51 Vermont
03:09:31 52 Virginia
03:15:52 53 Wake Island
03:16:09 54 Washington
03:18:56 55 West Virginia
03:21:04 56 Wisconsin
03:24:20 57 Wyoming
03:26:11 58 See also
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Speed limits in the United States vary depending on jurisdiction, with 75 to 80 mph (120 to 130 km/h) common in the Western United States and 65 to 75 mph (100 to 120 km/h) common in the Eastern United States. States may also set special speed limits for trucks and night travel along with minimum speed limits. The highest speed limit in the country is 85 mph (140 km/h), which is posted on a single stretch of tollway in rural Texas.
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Hampton National Historic Site | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:20 1.1 18th century
00:03:39 1.2 19th century
00:07:57 1.3 20th century
00:10:56 1.4 21st century
00:12:54 2 National Park Service management
00:16:35 3 The Tea Room controversy
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Hampton National Historic Site, in the Hampton area north of Towson, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA, preserves a remnant of a vast 18th-century estate, including a Georgian manor house, gardens, grounds, and the original stone slave quarters. The estate was owned by the Ridgely family for seven generations, from 1745 to 1948. The Hampton Mansion was the largest private home in America when it was completed in 1790 and today is considered to be one of the finest examples of Georgian architecture in the U.S. Its furnishings, together with the estate's slave quarters and other preserved structures, provide insight into the life of late 18th-century and early 19th-century landowning aristocracy. In 1948, Hampton was the first site selected as a National Historical Site for its architectural significance by the U.S. National Park Service. The grounds were widely admired in the 19th century for their elaborate parterres or formal gardens, which have been restored to resemble their appearance during the 1820s. Several trees are more than 200 years old. In addition to the mansion and grounds, visitors may tour the overseer's house and slave quarters.
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Oregon | Wikipedia audio article
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00:03:23 1 Etymology
00:07:07 2 Geography
00:09:00 2.1 Geology and terrain
00:10:49 2.2 Flora and fauna
00:13:42 2.3 Climate
00:15:56 3 History
00:16:39 3.1 Earliest inhabitants
00:17:59 3.2 European and pioneer settlement
00:23:10 3.3 Statehood
00:24:54 3.4 Post-Reconstruction
00:27:24 4 Cities and towns
00:28:34 5 Law and government
00:33:06 5.1 Federal representation
00:34:24 5.2 Politics
00:38:09 6 Economy
00:39:29 6.1 Agriculture
00:41:23 6.2 Forestry and fisheries
00:43:29 6.3 Tourism and entertainment
00:45:53 6.4 Technology
00:47:33 6.5 Corporate headquarters
00:49:38 6.6 Taxes and budgets
00:52:42 7 Demographics
00:52:51 7.1 Population
00:55:49 7.2 Religious and secular communities
00:58:08 7.3 Future projections
00:58:47 8 Education
00:58:56 8.1 Primary and secondary
00:59:51 8.2 Colleges and universities
01:03:29 9 Sports
01:06:05 10 Sister regions
01:06:38 11 See also
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Oregon ( (listen) OR-i-gən) is a state in the Pacific Northwest region on the West Coast of the United States. The Columbia River delineates much of Oregon's northern boundary along Washington state, while the Snake River delineates much of its eastern boundary along Idaho. The parallel 42° north delineates the southern boundary with California and Nevada. Oregon is one of only three states of the contiguous United States to have a coastline on the Pacific Ocean.
Oregon was inhabited by many indigenous tribes before Western traders, explorers, and settlers arrived. An autonomous government was formed in the Oregon Country in 1843 before the Oregon Territory was created in 1848. Oregon became the 33rd state on February 14, 1859. Today, at 98,000 square miles (250,000 km2), Oregon is the ninth largest and, with a population of 4 million, 27th most populous U.S. state. The capital, Salem, is the second most populous city in Oregon, with 164,549 residents. Portland, with 632,309 residents, is the most populous and ranks as the 26th most populous city in the United States. The Portland metropolitan area, which also includes the city of Vancouver, Washington, to the north, ranks the 23rd largest metro area in the nation, with a population of 2,389,228.
Oregon is one of the most geographically diverse states in the U.S., marked by volcanoes, abundant bodies of water, dense evergreen and mixed forests, as well as high deserts and semi-arid shrublands. At 11,249 feet (3,429 m), Mount Hood, a stratovolcano, is the state's highest point. Oregon's only national park, Crater Lake National Park, comprises the caldera surrounding Crater Lake, the deepest lake in the United States. The state is also home to the single largest organism in the world, Armillaria ostoyae, a fungus that runs beneath 2,200 acres (8.9 km2) of the Malheur National Forest.Because of its diverse landscapes and waterways, Oregon's economy is largely powered by various forms of agriculture, fishing, and hydroelectric power. Oregon is also the top timber producer of the contiguous United States, and the timber industry dominated the state's economy in the 20th century. Technology is another one of Oregon's major economic forces, beginning in the 1970s with the establishment of the Silicon Forest and the expansion of Tektronix and Intel. Sportswear company Nike, Inc., headquartered in Beaverton, is the state's largest public corporation with an annual revenue of $30.6 billion.Like its northern neighbor Washington, Oregon is one of the most socially progressive states in the country. Same-sex marriage in Oregon was recognized in 2013 before its full legalization in 2015, cannabis is legal for recreational and medicinal use in the state, and assisted suicide is also permitted by law in Oregon.
Connecticut | Wikipedia audio article
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Connecticut ( (listen)) is the southernmost state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. As of the 2010 Census, it has the highest per-capita income, Human Development Index (0.962), and median household income in the United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. Its capital is Hartford and its most populous city is Bridgeport. It is part of New England, although portions of it are often grouped with New York and New Jersey as the Tri-state area. The state is named for the Connecticut River, a major US river that approximately bisects the state. The word Connecticut is derived from various anglicized spellings of an Algonquian word for long tidal river.Connecticut's first settlers were Dutchmen who established a small, short-lived settlement called Fort Hoop in Hartford at the confluence of the Park and Connecticut Rivers. Half of Connecticut was initially part of the Dutch colony New Netherland, which included much of the land between the Connecticut and Delaware Rivers. The first major settlements were established in the 1630s by the English. Thomas Hooker led a band of followers overland from the Massachusetts Bay Colony and founded the Connecticut Colony; other settlers from Massachusetts founded the Saybrook Colony and the New Haven Colony. The Connecticut and New Haven colonies established documents of Fundamental Orders, considered the first constitutions in North America. In 1662, the three colonies were merged under a royal charter, making Connecticut a crown colony. This was one of the Thirteen Colonies that rejected British rule in the American Revolution.
Connecticut is the third smallest state by area, the 29th most populous, and the fourth most densely populated of the 50 states. It is known as the Constitution State, the Nutmeg State, the Provisions State, and the Land of Steady Habits. It was influential in the development of the federal government of the United States.
The Connecticut River, Thames River, and ports along Long Island Sound have given Connecticut a strong maritime tradition which continues today. The state also has a long history of hosting the financial services industry, including insurance companies in Hartford and hedge funds in Fairfield County.