Books in Pennsylvania Profiles series

Incredible stories about the Keystone State from the syndicated illustrated feature Pennsylvania Profiles. The Swedes first settled Pennsylvania and our first citizens were convicts. This book has extensive coverage of the French and Indian War in central PA. Other topics include: Asa Packer, the coal baron; the Great Goose Fly scam that hoodwinked Pittsburghers in 1848; the first women's medical college; the Seven Mountains and the last buffalo herd in PA; the steel and concrete ship/hotel on Allegheny Mountain; Judy Johnson and the Negro Baseball League; and so much more.

Incredible stories about the Keystone State from the syndicated illustrated feature Pennsylvania Profiles. You will be surprised at how many everyday things started in the Commonwealth and this books gives the amusing details on several: root beer; Planters Peanuts; toilet paper; nursing schools; professional baseball; iron bridges; the first labor strike; and the Pennsylvania Turnpike, the first of its kind in the U.S. Amusing stories include the "Dragon Lady" of Pennsylvania and the odd-ball meanings of certain towns around the state, and so much more.