History in Pennsylvania

This Art Deco movie palace turned performing arts center lets audiences experience the glamor of showbiz in its heyday.

Slated for demolition in 1962, the historic Pomeroy-Academia Covered Bridge was saved by conservationists.

Discover the crossroads of industrial innovation, Native American history, and local artistry.

Travel back in time aboard a restored 1950s-era railcar.

Soldiers’ scrawls turned into history’s signatures.

The site of the daring river crossing that changed the course of the American Revolution.

This overlooked courtyard and museum celebrate Benjamin Franklin's life and achievements.

Come for the history lesson, stay for the mule-pulled boat rides.

George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and Benjamin Franklin all slept at this humble inn.

An abandoned incline railway site is now a green space with six acres of trails connecting hilltop neighborhoods.

Catch a ride through the Pennsylvania countryside on this historic narrow-gauge railroad.

A former plant in one of the hubs of U.S. steelmaking has been turned into this museum celebrating the history of American industry.

A dozen U.S. presidents have stayed at the historic resort, which was known as James Buchanan’s “Summer White House” from 1857-1861.

The penultimate and final resting places of British General Edward Braddock—minus a few bits and pieces.

This abandoned iron furnace was one of the first to use coke—a type of high-carbon fuel—to make iron.

Home of the only civilian casualty at the Battle of Gettysburg.