WebAllegheny County (/ æ l ɪ ˈ ɡ eɪ n i /) is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.It is located in Southwestern Pennsylvania.As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,250,578, making it the state's second-most populous county, following Philadelphia County.The county seat is Pittsburgh. Allegheny County is included in the Pittsburgh, PA …

WebThe Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, subsequently the Weston State Hospital, was a Kirkbride psychiatric hospital that was operated from 1864 until 1994 by the government of the U.S. state of West Virginia, in the city of Weston. Weston State Hospital got its name in 1913 which was used while patients occupied it, but was changed back to its originally …

WebLocated in the Ridge and Valley physiographic province of the Appalachian Mountains, Shenandoah Mountain forms part of the western margin of the Shenandoah Valley, and is part of the easternmost Allegheny Mountains. It lies almost entirely within the George Washington National Forest.

WebThe Allegheny River (/ ˌ æ l ə ˈ ɡ eɪ n i / AL-ə-GAE-nee) is a 325-mile (523 km) long headwater stream of the Ohio River in western Pennsylvania and New York.The Allegheny River runs from its headwaters just below the middle of Pennsylvania's northern border northwesterly into New York then in a zigzag southwesterly across the border and …

WebThe Catskills became a major resort destination for Jewish New Yorkers in the mid-20th century. Borscht Belt is an informal term for the summer resorts of the Catskill Mountains in Sullivan and Ulster counties in upstate New York which were frequented by Ashkenazic Jews.At its peak of popularity, about 500 resorts operated in the region. Later changes in …

WebAm 1. Januar 1953 wurde der Firmenname in Anspielung auf die Allegheny Mountains in Allegheny Airlines geändert. Der erste Turboprop-Flugzeugtyp der Fluggesellschaft war die Convair 540, die nur 1962 aktiv war.Der erste Strahlflugzeugtyp im Betrieb von Allegheny war die Douglas DC-9-14, die am 29.Mai 1966 geliefert wurde. Ab 1967 deckte das …

WebThe 2-6-6-6 (in Whyte notation) is an articulated locomotive type with two leading wheels, two sets of six driving wheels and six trailing wheels. Only two classes of the 2-6-6-6 type were built. One was the "Allegheny" class, built by the Lima Locomotive Works.The name comes from the locomotive's first service with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway …

WebThe Ouachita Mountains (/ ˈ w ɒ ʃ ɪ t ɔː /), simply referred to as the Ouachitas, are a mountain range in western Arkansas and southeastern Oklahoma.They are formed by a thick succession of highly deformed Paleozoic strata constituting the Ouachita Fold and Thrust Belt, one of the important orogenic belts of North America. The Ouachitas …

WebPart of the Appalachian Mountains chain, the region does not consist of true mountains, geologically speaking, but instead a dissected plateau that is part of the Allegheny Plateau.The Catskill Mountains are the highest expression of the plateau, located to the east of the Endless Mountains, and separated from them by the Delaware River.. The …

WebWestern Pennsylvania is a region in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, covering the western third of the state. Pittsburgh is the region's principal city, with a metropolitan area population of about 2.4 million people, and serves as its economic and cultural center. Erie, Altoona, and Johnstown are its other metropolitan centers. As of the 2010 census, Western …