We love exploring cities and learning some history and interesting facts so we thought we would share some of our discoveries with you, our blog readers. Enjoy the quiz. Your clue is that your answer will be a city in Pennsylvania. There are 57 municipalities in Pennsylvania that are called cities. So good luck!
- What city served as the U.S. capitol for one day – September 27, 1777?
- In what city was the first turnpike chartered?
- Where did Conestoga wagons originate?
- Before he established the town of Hershey, where did Milton Hershey operate his first factory which made caramels? (Hint: these caramels still bear the city’s name.)
- Where was the oldest operating tobacconist in America? It opened in 1770 and closed in 2011.
- In what city was Barbara Fritchie baptized in the First Reformed Church in 1766? She was the Civil War heroine immortalized in John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem – “Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country’s flag, she said….”
- In what city did Rev. Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg serve as pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church from 1780 to 1815? You will remember him as the noteworthy botanist who discovered the smallest turtle in America – the Bog Turtle.
- In what city did the first commercial telegraph line in the U.S. run? (Hint: It ran along the railroad right-of-way and the first message it relayed was “Why don’t you write, you rascals?” which was received in 1846.)
- What city claims to be the site of the first successful Woolworth’s “five and dime” store? It opened in 1879.
- Where is the Fulton Theatre – the oldest continuously operating theater in the U.S.? It was called Fulton Hall when it opened in 1852. And, yes, it is named after Robert Fulton of steamboat fame.
- Where did Francis Bailey reside? He was the printer who, in 1779, was the first to refer to George Washington as the “father of his country”. He also printed the first copies of the Articles of Confederation.
- What U.S. city was first known by the names Hickory Town and Gibson’s Pasture and eventually was named after a city in England?
The answers will be in our next blog. So keep tuning in